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Year
1986
Subject
Physics
Award
Franklin
Affiliation
Yale University | T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Citation
For the creation of the field of fractal geometry.
Year
1984
Subject
Engineering
Award
Clamer
Affiliation
Case Western Reserve University
Citation
For research on fatigue of metals.
Year
1999
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Virginia Medical School | Charlottesville, Virginia
Citation
For his work in identifying the role of the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, and providing understanding and hope in the realm of ulcergenesis.
Year
1959
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Wetherill
Affiliation
National Institute for Medical Research | London, United Kingdom
Citation
For the development of theories of gas chromatography for the quick and precise analysis of minute quantities of mixtures of chemical components (with A. T. James and Richard L. M. Synge).
Year
2017
Subject
Chemistry
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Carnegie Mellon University│ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Citation
With Mitsuo Sawamoto, for their seminal contributions to the development of a new polymerization process involving metal catalysts. This powerful process affords unprecedented control of polymer composition and architecture, making possible new materials including improved composites, coatings, dispersants, and biomedical polymers.
Year
2003
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Stanford University | Stanford, California
Citation
For his multiple contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence and computer science including the development of the LISP language, the invention of time-sharing interactive programming, and key developments in the application of formal logic to common sense reasoning.
Year
1997
Subject
Life Science
Award
Cresson
Affiliation
Webb-Waring Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center │ Denver, Colorado
Citation
For discovering the biology of free radical reactions in living organisms.
Year
2007
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Queen's University | Ontario, Canada
Citation
With Yoji Totsuka, for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass.
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.