IEEE David Sarnoff Award
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The IEEE David Sarnoff Award is a Technical Field Award presented annually by the IEEE.
The award was established in 1959 by the RCA Corporation; in 1989 the Sarnoff Corporation
became its sponsor. It consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium, and may be presented each year to an individual or small team (up to three people) for exceptional contributions to electronics.
The award was established in 1959 by the RCA Corporation; in 1989 the Sarnoff Corporation
Sarnoff Corporation
Sarnoff Corporation, with headquarters in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, was a research and development company specializing in vision, video and semiconductor technology....
became its sponsor. It consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium, and may be presented each year to an individual or small team (up to three people) for exceptional contributions to electronics.
Recipients
- 2012 Hideo Ohno
- 2011 Constance J. Chang-Hasnain
- 2010 Mark Rodwell
- 2009 Yasuhiko Arakawa
- 2009 Kam-Yin Lau
- 2009 Kerry J. Vahala
- 2008 James Coleman
- 2007 Umesh K. Mishra
- 2006 Mau-Chung F. Chang
- 2005 Pierre Tournois
- 2004 Frederick A. Kish, Jr.
- 2003 Peter Asbeck
- 2002 Young-Kai Chen
- 2001 P. Daniel Dapkus
- 2000 Alastair Malcolm Glass
- 1999 Gerard A. Mourou
- 1998 Tatsuo Izawa
- 1997 Milton FengMilton FengMilton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak in 2004. The paper discussing their work was voted in 2006 as one of the five most important papers published by the American Institute of Physics since its founding 75 years ago...
- 1996 Hiroyuki Sakaki
- 1995 Karl HessKarl HessKarl Hess was an American national-level speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, atheist, and libertarian activist...
- 1994 Won-Tien Tsang
- 1993 Rao R. Tummala
- 1992 J. Jim Hsieh
- 1991 Federico CapassoFederico CapassoFederico Capasso , a prominent applied physicist, was one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University...
- 1990 Leroy L. Chang
- 1989 Herwig KogelnikHerwig KogelnikHerwig Kogelnik is an electrical engineer working in optical communications.He was born in Graz, Austria and received his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule Wien in Vienna, Austria in 1955, and a Doctorate in 1958, also from the Technische Hochschule. In 1960, he received his Ph.D....
- 1989 Charles V. Shank
- 1988 Izuo HayashiIzuo Hayashi' was a Japanese physicist.Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1922 and graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo in 1946. He then worked as assistant professor at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the same university and defended his PhD in 1962...
- 1987 Frank F. Fang
- 1987 Alan B. Fowler
- 1986 Yasuharu Suematsu
- 1985 Henry Kressel
- 1984 Jameson D. Rigden
- 1984 Alan D. White
- 1983 Hermann K. Gummel
- 1982 Nobutoshi KiharaNobutoshi KiharaNobutoshi Kihara was an engineer at Sony, best known for his work on the original Walkman cassette-tape player in the 1970s and was commonly called Mr...
- 1981 Cyril HilsumCyril HilsumCyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP is a British physicist and academic.-Life:He entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of three brothers, leaving in 1943 after being accepted into University College London, where he did his Bsc. In 1945 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific...
- 1980 Marshall I. Nathan
- 1979 A Gardner Fox
- 1979 Tingye LiTingye LiDr. Tingye Li is a world-renowned scientist in the fields of microwaves, lasers and optical communications. His innovational work at AT&T, which pioneered the research and application of lightwave communication, has had a far-reaching impact on information technology for over four...
- 1978 Stephen E. Harris
- 1977 Jack M. Manley
- 1977 Harrison E. Rowe
- 1976 George H. HeilmeierGeorge H. HeilmeierGeorge Harry Heilmeier is an American engineer and businessman, who was a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays.-Biography:...
- 1975 Bernard C. Deloach, Jr.
- 1974 Frederik L. J. Sangster
- 1973 Max MathewsMax MathewsMax Vernon Mathews was a pioneer in the world of computer music.-Biography:...
- 1972 Edward G. Ramberg
- 1971 Alan L. McWhorter
- 1970 John Bertrand Johnson
- 1969 Robert H. Rediker
- 1968 Walter P. Dyke
- 1967 James HillierJames HillierJames Hillier, was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938....
- 1966 Jack KilbyJack KilbyJack St. Clair Kilby was an American physicist who took part in the invention of the integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000. He is credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip...
- 1965 Jack A. Morton
- 1964 Henri Busignies
- 1963 Robert N. HallRobert N. HallRobert N. Hall is an American engineer and applied physicist. He demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, and invented a type of magnetron commonly used in microwave ovens. He also contributed to the development of rectifiers for power transmission.-Biography:Hall was born in New Haven,...
- 1962 Harry B. Smith
- 1961 Charles Townes
- 1960 Rudolf KompfnerRudolf KompfnerRudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube .Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents...
- 1959 David SarnoffDavid SarnoffDavid Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American commercial radio and television. He founded the National Broadcasting Company and throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his...