IEEE Honorary Membership
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IEEE Honorary Membership is a honorary
type of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), that is given for life to an individual. It is awarded by the Board of Directors of IEEE to people 'who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in [the] IEEE's designated fields of interest' while not being members of IEEE.
This membership provides all the rights and privileges of a normal IEEE membership, except the right to hold an IEEE office.
The recipients of this grade will receive a certificate, a 'Honorary Member' pin and a crystal sculpture.
Title of honor
An honorary title or title of honor is a title bestowed upon individuals or organizations as an award in recognition of their merits.Sometimes the title bears the same or nearly the same name as a title of authority, but the person bestowed does not have to carry any duties, possibly except for...
type of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
(IEEE), that is given for life to an individual. It is awarded by the Board of Directors of IEEE to people 'who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in [the] IEEE's designated fields of interest' while not being members of IEEE.
This membership provides all the rights and privileges of a normal IEEE membership, except the right to hold an IEEE office.
The recipients of this grade will receive a certificate, a 'Honorary Member' pin and a crystal sculpture.
Recipients
Following people received the IEEE Honorary Membership:- 1981: John BardeenJohn BardeenJohn Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...
- 1981: Walter H. BrattainWalter Houser BrattainWalter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.- Early life and education :He was...
- 1981: Edwin H. LandEdwin H. LandEdwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision...
- 1982: Brian D. JosephsonBrian David JosephsonBrian David Josephson, FRS is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....
- 1982: Donald E. KnuthDonald KnuthDonald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
- 1982: Wolfgang K. H. PanofskyWolfgang K. H. PanofskyWolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky , was a German-American physicist.-Early life:Panofsky was born the son of renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky in Berlin, Germany. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1938 and obtained his PhD from Caltech in 1942. Around this time...
- 1983: George B. DantzigGeorge DantzigGeorge Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics....
- 1983: Cecil H. GreenCecil Howard GreenCecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
- 1983: Norman RamseyNorman Foster Ramsey, Jr.Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. was an American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission...
- 1984: M. G. K. Menon
- 1984: Herbert A. SimonHerbert SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
- 1985: Hideo Yamashita
- 1986: Arthur E. BrysonArthur E. BrysonArthur Earl Bryson, Jr. is the Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory"....
- 1987: Gene H. GolubGene H. GolubGene Howard Golub , Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation....
- 1987: Arno A. PenziasArno Allan PenziasArno Allan Penzias is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Early life and education:Penzias was born in Munich, Germany. At age six he was among the Jewish children evacuated to Britain as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation...
- 1988: Luis W. AlvarezLuis AlvarezLuis W. Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley...
- 1989: No Award
- 1990: No Award
- 1991: Akio MoritaAkio MoritaAkio Morita KBE was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.-Early life:...
- 1992: Mark Krivocheev
- 1993: Robert W. GalvinBob GalvinRobert William "Bob" Galvin was a US executive. He was the son of the founder of Motorola, Paul Galvin, and served as the CEO of Motorola from 1959 to 1986.-Motorola career:...
- 1994: Michael Carpenter
- 1994: Ralph E. GomoryRalph E. GomoryRalph Edward Gomory is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics....
- 1995: Lars Henry Ramquist
- 1996: Leon M. LedermanLeon M. LedermanLeon Max Lederman is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA...
- 1996: Hiroyuki Mizuno
- 1997: Pekka J. Tarjanne
- 1998: Pavagada V. Indiresan
- 1998: Sheila E. WidnallSheila E. WidnallSheila Marie Evans Widnall is an American aerospace researcher and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She served as United States Secretary of the Air Force between 1993 and 1997, making her the first female Secretary of the Air Force and first woman to lead an...
- 1999: No Award
- 2000: Norio OhgaNorio Ohga, otherwise spelled Norio Oga, was the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation, credited with spurring the development of the compact disc as a commercially viable audio format.-Early career:...
- 2001: Charles M. GeschkeCharles GeschkeCharles Geschke, is best known as the 1982 co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.-Education:...
- 2002: James C. Morgan
- 2003: Jorma OllilaJorma OllilaJorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman and former CEO of the Nokia Corporation and a Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company , UPM-Kymmene , and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd...
- 2003: Tadashi Sasaki
- 2004: No Award
- 2005: Dean KamenDean KamenDean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe...
- 2006: Vladimir RokhlinVladimir Rokhlin (American scientist)Vladimir Rokhlin is mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale University. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method in 1987, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.-Short biography:Vladimir Rokhlin was born on August 4, 1952 in...
- 2007: Ian C. McRae
- 2007: Tsutae Shinoda
- 2008: Jong Yong Yun
- 2009: Gerald Posakony
- 2010: N. R. Narayana MurthyN. R. Narayana MurthyNagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy , better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He and six other engineers founded Infosys in 1981. Mr. Murthy served as CEO from 1981 to 2002. From 2002 to 2011, he served as Chairman...
- 2011: Wang JianzhouWang JianzhouWang Jianzhou , is the current Chairman of China Mobile.-Biography:Wang did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University . Wang received a master degree of industrial management from ZJU in 1985...
- 2011: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam