Laureates

• 1998 - Emmanuel Desurvire (Engineering)
• 1998 - Robert B. Laughlin
  Robert B. Laughlin
  Robert Betts Laughlin is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall...
  
   (Physics)
• 1998 - David N. Payne (Engineering)
• 1998 - Stanley B. Prusiner
  Stanley B. Prusiner
  Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco . Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein...
  
   (Life Science)
• 1998 - Horst L. Stormer (Physics)
• 1998 - Daniel C. Tsui
  Daniel C. Tsui
  Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics...
  
   (Physics)
• 1998 - Ahmed H. Zewail (Chemistry)
• 1999 - Noam Chomsky
  Noam Chomsky
  Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1999 - Douglas C. Engelbart (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1999 - Walter Kaminsky
  Walter Kaminsky
  Walter Kaminsky is a German chemist. His research dwells in olefin polymerization, and also in plastic recycling. He discovered the high activity of Group 4 metallocene/methylaluminoxane mixtures as catalysts for olefin polymerization in 1980.He was awarded, among other prizes, the 1999 Benjamin...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 1999 - Barry J. Marshall (Life Science)
• 1999 - John C. Mather
  John C. Mather
  John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....
  
   (Physics)
• 1999 - Richard W. Shorthill (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1999 - Akira Tonomura (Physics)
• 1999 - Victor Vali (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2000 - John Cocke
  John Cocke
  John Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2000 - Eric Cornell (Physics)
• 2000 - Gordon Danby
  Gordon Danby
  Gordon T. Danby is an American physicist notable for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute 'Medal 2000 for Engineering'.-References:...
  
   (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2000 - Eville Gorham (Earth Science)
• 2000 - Robert H. Grubbs
  Robert H. Grubbs
  Robert Howard Grubbs is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot [NB: both in Marshall County]...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2000 - Wolfgang Ketterle
  Wolfgang Ketterle
  Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose-Einstein condensation in these...
  
   (Physics)
• 2000 - Antoine Labeyrie (Electrical Engineering)
• 2000 - James R. Powell
  James R. Powell
  James R. Powell is an American physicist notable — together with Dr. Gordon Danby — for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute "Medal 2000 for Engineering"....
  
   (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2000 - Carl Wieman
  Carl Wieman
  Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the production, in 1995 with Eric Allin Cornell, of the first true Bose–Einstein condensate.-Biography:...
  
   (Physics)
• 2001 - Judah Folkman
  Judah Folkman
  Moses Judah Folkman was an American medical scientist best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2001 - Alan H. Guth (Physics)
• 2001 - Marvin Minsky
  Marvin Minsky
  Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2001 - K. Barry Sharpless
  K. Barry Sharpless
  Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.-Early years:Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College and earned his Ph.D from Stanford University in 1968...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2001 - Rob Van der Voo (Earth Science)
• 2001 - Bernard Widrow
  Bernard Widrow
  Bernard Widrow is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff...
  
   (Electrical Engineering)
• 2002 - Norman L. Allinger (Chemistry)
• 2002 - Mary-Dell Chilton
  Mary-Dell Chilton
  Mary-Dell Chilton is a key founder of modern plant biotechnology. She was the first to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2002 - Sumio Iijima
  Sumio Iijima
  Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "discovery", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of...
  
   (Physics)
• 2002 - Shuji Nakamura
  Shuji Nakamura
  is a professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara .- Career :Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1977 with a degree in electronic engineering, and obtained a master's degree in the same subject two years later, after...
  
   (Engineering)
• 2002 - Alexandra Navrotsky
  Alexandra Navrotsky
  Alexandra Navrotsky is a physical chemist in the field of nanogeoscience. She is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences . She was a board member of the Earth Sciences and Resources division of the NAS from 1995 until 2000....
  
   (Earth Science)
• 2002 - Lucy Suchman
  Lucy Suchman
  Lucy Suchman is a full Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2003 - Bishnu S. Atal
  Bishnu S. Atal
  Bishnu S. Atal is a noted researcher in linear predictive coding.Atal was born in India, and received his BS degree in physics from the University of Lucknow, a diploma in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD in electrical engineering ...
  
   (Electrical Engineering)
• 2003 - John N. Bahcall
  John N. Bahcall
  John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.-Early and family life:Bahcall was born in...
  
   (Physics)
• 2003 - Raymond Davis (Physics)
• 2003 - Jane Goodall
  Jane Goodall
  Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2003 - Robin M. Hochstrasser (Chemistry)
• 2003 - Masatoshi Koshiba
  Masatoshi Koshiba
  is a Japanese physicist. He jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1951 and received a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Rochester, New York, in 1955...
  
   (Physics)
• 2003 - John McCarthy
  John McCarthy (computer scientist)
  John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" , invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI.McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2003 - Norman A. Phillips (Earth Science)
• 2003 - Joseph Smagorinsky
  Joseph Smagorinsky
  Joseph Smagorinsky was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.- Early life :...
  
   (Earth Science)
• 2003 - Charles H. Thornton (Engineering)
• 2004 - Roger Bacon (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2004 - Harry B. Gray
  Harry B. Gray
  Harry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, Harvey Prize in 2000, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.-Career:Gray received his B.S...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2004 - Richard M. Karp (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2004 - Robert B. Meyer (Physics)
• 2004 - Robert E. Newnham (Electrical Engineering)
• 2005 - Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (Life Science)
• 2005 - Aravind K. Joshi (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2005 - Yoichiro Nambu
  Yoichiro Nambu
  is a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in...
  
   (Physics)
• 2005 - Peter R. Vail (Earth Science)
• 2005 - Andrew J. Viterbi (Electrical Engineering)
• 2006 - Ray W. Clough
  Ray W. Clough
  Ray William Clough, , was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one the founders of the Finite Element Method . His article in 1956 was one of the first applications of this...
  
   (Engineering)
• 2006 - Samuel J. Danishefsky
  Samuel J. Danishefsky
  Samuel J. Danishefsky is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.- Birth and education :...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2006 - Luna B. Leopold (Earth Science)
• 2006 - Donald Norman
  Donald Norman
  Donald Arthur Norman is an academic in the field of cognitive science, design and usability engineering and a co-founder and consultant with the Nielsen Norman Group. He is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things....
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2006 - Fernando Nottebohm
  Fernando Nottebohm
  Dr Fernando Nottebohm is a neuroscientist and is the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at Rockefeller University as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology....
  
   (Life Science)
• 2006 - Giacinto Scoles
  Giacinto Scoles
  Giacinto Scoles is a European and North American chemist and physicist who is best-known for his pioneering development of molecular beam methods for the study of weak van der Waals forces between atoms, molecules, and surfaces...
  
   (Physics)
• 2006 - J. Peter Toennies (Physics)
• 2006 - M. Gordon Wolman
  M. Gordon Wolman
  Markley Gordon Wolman was an American geographer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Haverford College before being drafted into the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he returned to Baltimore and graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1949 with a degree in Geography...
  
   (Earth Science)
• 2007 - Klaus Biemann
  Klaus Biemann
  Klaus Biemann is a Professor Emeritus of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work was centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2007 - Robert H. Dennard (Electrical Engineering)
• 2007 - Merton C. Flemings (Materials Science)
• 2007 - Arthur B. McDonald
  Arthur B. McDonald
  Arthur B. McDonald is a Canadian physicist and the Director of Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute. He also holds Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.- Early life :...
  
   (Physics)
• 2007 - Steven W. Squyres (Earth Science)
• 2007 - Yoji Totsuka
  Yoji Totsuka
  was a Japanese physicist and Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo. Totsuka died on July 10, 2008 from colorectal cancer.- Early life :...
  
   (Physics)
• 2007 - Nancy Wexler
  Nancy Wexler
  Nancy Wexler FRCP is a geneticist and the Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology at Columbia University, best known for her discovery of the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease . Despite having an AB and PhD in clinical psychology, Wexler instead chose to work in genetics...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2008 - Victor Ambros
  Victor Ambros
  Victor Ambros is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA . He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.-Background:...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2008 - David Baulcombe (Life Science)
• 2008 - Wallace Broecker (Earth Science)
• 2008 - Albert Eschenmoser
  Albert Eschenmoser
  Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss chemist working at the ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute.His work together with Lavoslav Ružička on terpenes and the postulation of squalene cyclization to form lanosterol improved the insight into steroid biosynthesis.In the early 1960s, Eschenmoser began...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2008 - Deborah Jin (Physics)
• 2008 - Judea Pearl
  Judea Pearl
  Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and philosopher, best known for developing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks ....
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2008 - Arun Phadke (Electrical Engineering)
• 2008 - Gary Ruvkun
  Gary Ruvkun
  Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4, the first microRNA discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translation of target messenger RNAs via imperfect base-pairing to those...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2008 - James Thorp
  James Thorp
  James S. Thorp was the head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.Along with fellow Virginia Tech professor Arun G...
  
   (Electrical Engineering)
• 2009 - Ruzena Bajcsy
  Ruzena Bajcsy
  Ružena Bajcsy is an American computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley,, where she is also Director Emerita of CITRIS .She was previously Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at...
  
   (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2009 - Stephen J. Benkovic
  Stephen J. Benkovic
  Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist. He is Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at Penn State University. His research has focused on mechanistic enzymology and the discovery of enzyme inhibitors. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in...
  
   (Life Science)
• 2009 - J. Frederick Grassle (Earth Science)
• 2009 - Richard J. Robbins (Engineering)
• 2009 - George M. Whitesides
  George M. Whitesides
  George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2009 - Lotfi A. Zadeh (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - J. Ignacio Cirac (Physics)
• 2010 - Shafrira Goldwasser (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 2010 - Peter C. Nowell (Life Science)
• 2010 - Gerhard M. Sessler (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - D. Brian Spalding (Mechanical Engineering)
• 2010 - JoAnne Stubbe
  JoAnne Stubbe
  JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist. She is currently the Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Career:...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 2010 - James E. West
  James Edward Maceo West
  James Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962...
  
   (Electrical Engineering)
• 2010 - David J. Wineland
  David J. Wineland
  David J. Wineland is an American physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology physics laboratory in Boulder...
  
   (Physics)
• 2010 - Peter Zoller
  Peter Zoller
  Peter Zoller is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He is Professor at the University of Innsbruck and works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on quantum computing and quantum communication and for bridging quantum optics and solid state...
  
  (Physics)

Sources

• The Franklin Institute. Winners. Benjamin Franklin Medal winners.