Enter your search terms in at least one of the following search fields. Then click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the form to begin the search.
Year
2023
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citation
For seminal contributions to computer programming languages and methodology, enabling the implementation of reliable, reusable programs.
Year
1989
Subject
Physics
Award
Cresson
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation
For interpretation of dynamical chaos in physical systems.
Year
2017
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) │ Paris, France
Citation
For iconic contributions to the understanding of global climate change from the analysis of greenhouse gas concentrations in ice cores from Antarctica, including discovering the glacial-interglacial cyclic relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature that governs past and future climate.
Year
2003
Subject
Engineering
Award
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Affiliation
AeroVironment, Inc. | Monrovia, CA
Citation
For creating, in the spirit of the Wright Brothers, a series of innovations in the fields of soaring, meteorology, human and solar powered flight, upper atmospheric research, and unoccupied and miniature aircraft. For half a century, his exceptional contributions have expanded the frontiers of the science and technology of aeronautics, aeronautical materials, structures energy conservation and utilization, and autonomous and automatic flight.
Year
1993
Subject
Engineering
Award
Clamer
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
Citation
For the development of conductive polymers.
Year
2015
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University │ Princeton, New Jersey
Citation
For his pioneering research on the sensitivity of Earth’s climate to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and his development of global climate models, which have led to fundamental advances in the understanding of climate variability and to methods for predicting future climate change.
Notes:
- "Franklin" Medals are not the same as "Benjamin Franklin" Medals. The Benjamin Franklin Medal was initiated in 1998 to represent the combined legacies of several historic medals, including the Franklin Medal.
- The Scott Medal is awarded by the City of Philadelphia. Prior to 1920, the Institute's Committee on Science and the Arts selected the medalists and the Scott Medals were presented on Awards Day at The Franklin Institute.
- For more information about The Franklin Institute Awards program, contact the Awards Program Director at awards@fi.edu.