National Academy of Engineering
The United States National Academy of Engineering is a private, non-profit institution which was founded in 1964, under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863.
Contents |
Charles Stark Draper Prize
The Academy makes the annual award of the Charles Stark Draper Prize for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. The Prize is worth $500,000. The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory.
Past Winners of the Charles Stark Draper Prize
- 1989: Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit.
- 1991: Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain for their independent development of the turbojet engine.
- 1993: John Backus for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language.
- 1995: John R. Pierce and Harold A. Rosen for their development of communication satellite technology.
- 1997: Vladimir Haensel for his invention of "platforming".
- 1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber optics.
- 2001: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and Lawrence G. Roberts for the development of the Internet.
- 2002: Robert Langer for the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems.
- 2003: Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson for their work developing the Global Positioning System.
- 2004: Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto, the first practical networked computer.
- 2005: Minoru S. "Sam" Araki, Francis J. Madden, Edward A. Miller, James W. Plummer and Don H. Schoessler for the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
- 2006: Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies.
(Source: National Academy of Engineering)
See also
- List of founding members of the National Academy of Engineering
- List of prizes
- Prizes named after people
External links
Categories
United States National Academies | Scientific institutions