Charles Stark Draper Prize
Engineering award given by the National Academy of Engineering since 1989
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The National Academy of Engineering awards the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering,[1] which is given for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. It is one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Engineering"—the others are the Academy's Russ and Gordon Prizes. The Draper Prize is awarded biennially and the winner of each of these prizes receives $500,000.[2] The Draper Prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of Draper Laboratory.
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| Presented by | National Academy of Engineering |
| Reward | $500,000 |
| First award | 1989 |
| Website | Draper Prize |
Recipients
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| 1989 |  |
Jack S. Kilby | "For their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit." | [3] |
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Robert N. Noyce | |||
| 1991 |  |
Hans von Ohain | "For their independent development of the turbojet engine." | [4] |
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Frank Whittle | |||
| 1993 |  |
John W. Backus | "For the development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language." | [5] |
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John R. Pierce | "For their development of communication satellite technology." | [6] |
| Harold A. Rosen | ||||
| 1997 | Vladimir Haensel | "For the development in chemical engineering of the Platforming ™ process." | [7] | |
| 1999 |  |
Charles K. Kao | "For development of fiber-optic technology." | [8] |
| Robert D. Maurer | ||||
| John B. MacChesney | ||||
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Vinton Cerf | "For the development of the Internet." | [9] |
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Robert Kahn | |||
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Leonard Kleinrock | |||
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Lawrence Roberts | |||
| 2002 |  |
Robert S. Langer | "For extraordinary contributions to the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems." | [10] |
| 2003 |  |
Bradford W. Parkinson | "For their technological achievements in the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS)." | [11] |
| Ivan A. Getting | ||||
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Alan C. Kay | "For the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers." | [12] |
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Butler W. Lampson | |||
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Robert W. Taylor | |||
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Charles P. Thacker | |||
| 2005 | Minoru “Sam” Araki | "For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system." | [13] | |
| Francis J. Madden | ||||
| Edward A. Miller | ||||
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James W. Plummer | |||
| Don H. Schoessler | ||||
| 2006 |  |
Willard Boyle | "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." | [14] |
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George Smith | |||
| 2007 |  |
Tim Berners-Lee | "For developing the World Wide Web." | [15] |
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Rudolf Kalman | "For the development and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products." | [16] |
| 2009 |  |
Robert H. Dennard | "For his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems." | [17] |
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Frances H. Arnold | "For directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products." | [18] |
| Willem P.C. Stemmer | [19] | |||
| 2012 |  |
George H. Heilmeier | "For the engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices." | [20] |
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Wolfgang Helfrich | |||
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Martin Schadt | |||
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T. Peter Brody | |||
| 2013 |  |
Martin Cooper | "For their pioneering contributions to the world's first cellular telephone networks." | [21] |
| Joel S. Engel | ||||
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Richard H. Frenkiel | |||
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Thomas Haug | |||
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Yoshihisa Okumura | |||
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John B. Goodenough | "For engineering the rechargeable lithium-ion battery that enables compact, lightweight mobile devices." | [22] |
| Yoshio Nishi | ||||
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Rachid Yazami | |||
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Akira Yoshino | |||
| 2015 |  |
Isamu Akasaki | "For the invention, development, and commercialization of materials and processes for light-emitting diodes (LEDs)." | [22] |
| M. George Craford | ||||
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Russell Dupuis | |||
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Nick Holonyak | |||
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Shuji Nakamura | |||
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Andrew J. Viterbi | "For development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics." | [23] |
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Bjarne Stroustrup | "For conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language." | [24] |
| 2020 | Jean Fréchet | "For the invention, development, and commercialization of chemically amplified materials for micro- and nanofabrication, enabling the extreme miniaturization of microelectronic devices." | [25] | |
| C. Grant Willson | ||||
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David A. Patterson | "For contributions to the invention, development, and implementation of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chips." | [26] |
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John L. Hennessy | |||
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Stephen B. Furber | |||
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Sophie M. Wilson | |||
| 2024 |  |
Stuart S.P. Parkin | "For engineering spintronic technologies, enabling digital information storage that serves as a foundation for our data-driven world." | [27] |
| 2026 | Eric R. Fossum | "For innovation, development, and commercialization of the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel image sensor 'camera-on-a-chip'." | [28] | |