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Year
2012
Subject
Earth and Environmental Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
The Ohio State University |
Columbus, Ohio
Citation
With Lonnie Thompson, for their collective studies of ice cores from around the world which have improved the understanding of Earth's climate history, including the role of the tropics in global climate change.
Year
2021
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Maryland │ College Park, Maryland │ National Academy of Engineering │ Washington, D.C.
Citation
For his outstanding contributions, through application of theory, analysis, and inventive experimentation, to the understanding of the dynamics of practical systems such as saws, skis, and conveyor belts, thereby increasing their safety, efficiency, and economy.
Year
2017
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
The Ford Motor Company, Retired │ Dearborn, Michigan│ Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Retired │ Seattle, Washington
Citation
For his extraordinary career in the aeronautics, astronautics, and automotive industries, particularly for his transformative leadership of the Ford Motor Company, which revitalized the company’s legacy as an icon of American business and innovation.
Year
2018
Subject
Leadership
Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Affiliation
Xerox Corporation, Retired │ Norwalk, Connecticut
Citation
For her transformational leadership of the iconic Xerox Corporation, where her focus on values, customers, employees, and innovation led to one of the biggest cultural and financial turnarounds in the history of the Fortune 500.
Year
1988
Subject
Life Science
Award
Corson
Affiliation
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
Citation
For research on protein requirements and nutrition in the elderly.
Year
2021
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of Colorado at Boulder │ Boulder, Colorado
Citation
With Henry C. Kapteyn, for their pioneering innovations that have made high-intensity sources of x-rays practical and widely available for the study of a broad range of physical processes, including chemical reactions, at the quadrillionth-of-a-second time scale.
Year
2002
Subject
Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
California NanoSystems Institute | Los Angeles, California
Citation
For his fundamental contributions to the optoelectronic technology of gallium-nitride, which culminated in the development of violet/blue laser diodes and in the implementation of High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes. These devices improve today's technology and have the potential of revolutionizing the lighting industry. Dr. Nakamura's success in gallium-nitride epitaxy started worldwide research in gallium-nitride semiconductor technology.
Year
2005
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
The University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois
Citation
For his path-breaking contributions leading to our modern understanding of sub-atomic particles--the Standard Model. His work has revolutionized our ideas about the nature of the most fundamental particles and the space through which they move.
Year
2021
Subject
Life Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Johns Hopkins Medical School │ Baltimore, Maryland
Citation
For his groundbreaking research on the genetics of the visual system, including the identification of key genes involved in eye development, eye diseases, and color vision.
Year
2002
Subject
Earth Science
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
University of California, Davis I Davis, California
Citation
For her wide spectrum of accomplishments in crystal chemistry that have importantly contributed to the fields of bonding energies, ceramic and materials research, chemical equilibria, geology, mantle petrology, and thermodynamics. For example, her findings have established, convincingly, the identity of materials at hundreds of kilometers of depth in the Earth that otherwise are inaccessible to direct observation.
Year
2014
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, Virginia |University of Jordan | Amman, Jordan
Citation
For the development of novel methods to model complex engineering systems in structural dynamics, acoustics, fluid mechanics and electromechanical systems.
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.