IEEE Medal of Honor
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The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium. The Medal of Honor may only be awarded to an individual.
The medal was originally founded by the Institute of Radio Engineers
(IRE) as the IRE Medal of Honor. It became the IEEE Medal of Honor when IRE merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
(AIEE) to form the IEEE in 1963.
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). It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium. The Medal of Honor may only be awarded to an individual.
The medal was originally founded by the Institute of Radio Engineers
Institute of Radio Engineers
The Institute of Radio Engineers was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until January 1, 1963, when it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .-Founding:Following several attempts to form a...
(IRE) as the IRE Medal of Honor. It became the IEEE Medal of Honor when IRE merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
The American Institute of Electrical Engineers was a United States based organization of electrical engineers that existed between 1884 and 1963, when it merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .- History :The 1884 founders of the...
(AIEE) to form the IEEE in 1963.
Recipients
- 1917: Edwin H. Armstrong
- 1918: No Award
- 1919: Ernst AlexandersonErnst AlexandersonErnst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development.-Background:...
- 1920: Guglielmo MarconiGuglielmo MarconiGuglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
- 1921: Reginald A. Fessenden
- 1922: Lee De ForestLee De ForestLee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
- 1923: John Stone StoneJohn Stone StoneJohn Stone Stone was an American mathematician, physicist and inventor. He labored as an early telephone engineer, was influential in developing wireless communication technology, and holds dozens of key patents in the field of "space telegraphy".-Early years:Stone was born in Dover, now Manakin...
- 1924: Michael I. Pupin
- 1925: No Award
- 1926: Greenleaf W. PickardGreenleaf Whittier PickardGreenleaf Whittier Pickard was a United States radio pioneer. Pickard was a researcher in the early days of wireless. He experimented with crystal detectors, antennas, wave propagation, and noise suppression...
- 1927: Louis W. Austin
- 1928: Jonathan ZenneckJonathan ZenneckJonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck was a physicist and electrical engineer. Zenneck was born in Ruppertshofen, Württemberg. Zenneck contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art...
- 1929: George W. Pierce
- 1930: Peder Oluf PedersenPeder Oluf PedersenPeder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology and his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on the telegraphone and the Poulsen Arc Transmitter....
- 1931: Gustave A. Ferrie
- 1932: Arthur Edwin KennellyArthur Edwin KennellyArthur Edwin Kennelly , was an Irish-American electrical engineer.-Biography:Kennelly was born December 17, 1861 in Colaba, in South Mumbai, India and was educated at University College School in London. He was the son of an Irish naval officer Captain David Joseph Kennelly and Catherine Gibson...
- 1933: John Ambrose FlemingJohn Ambrose FlemingSir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule...
- 1934: Stanford C. Hooper
- 1935: Balthasar van der PolBalthasar van der PolBalthasar van der Pol was a Dutch physicist.Van der Pol studied physics in Utrecht, and in 1920 he was awarded his doctorate . He studied experimental physics with John Ambrose Fleming and Sir J. J. Thomson in England...
- 1936: George Ashley CampbellGeorge Ashley CampbellGeorge Ashley Campbell was a pioneer in developing and applying quantitative mathematical methods to the problems of long-distance telegraphy and telephony. His most important contributions were to the theory and implementation of the use of loading coils and the first wave filters designed to...
- 1937: Melville EasthamMelville EasthamMelville Eastham was a noted American radio pioneer and business executive.Eastham was born in Oregon City, Oregon. After high school graduation from Portland Academy, he worked as electrician for a Portland street railway, then moved to New York City in 1905 where he worked for the Ovington X-ray...
- 1938: John H. Dellinger
- 1939: Albert G. LeeAlbert G. LeeLieutenant Colonel Albert G. Lee was a British radio pioneer.Lee was born in Conwy, Wales, and in 1903 entered the British Post Office Engineering Service, where he designed and tested submarine and other cables...
- 1940: Lloyd EspenschiedLloyd EspenschiedLloyd Espenschied was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable with Herman Andrew Affel.-Biography:He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 27, 1889....
- 1941: Alfred N. Goldsmith
- 1942: Albert H. TaylorAlbert H. TaylorAlbert Hoyt Taylor was an American electrical engineer who made important early contributions to the development of radar.-Biography:...
- 1943: William WilsonWilliam Wilson (physicist)William Wilson was an English-born physicist who spent much of his career in the United States. Born in Preston, he studied at the University of Manchester and at Cambridge University, studying radioactivity under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the latter institution...
- 1944: Haraden PrattHaraden PrattHaraden Pratt was a noted American electrical engineer and radio pioneer.Pratt was born in San Francisco, California, where his parents were telegraph operators. He learned Morse code when young and worked briefly as a shipboard wireless operator before entering the University of California...
- 1945: Harold H. Beverage
- 1946: Ralph HartleyRalph HartleyRalph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.-Biography:...
- 1947: No Award
- 1948: Lawrence C. F. HorleLawrence C. F. HorleLawrence Christopher Frank Horle was a noted American electrical engineer.Horle was born in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1914 received his degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he served as instructor until 1916...
- 1949: Ralph BownRalph BownRalph Bown was a noted American radio pioneer.Bown was born in Fairport, New York, and received his M.E., M.M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University where he also taught physics...
- 1950: Frederick TermanFrederick TermanFrederick Emmons Terman was an American academic. He is widely credited with being the father of Silicon Valley.-Education:...
- 1951: Vladimir ZworykinVladimir ZworykinVladimir Kozmich Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes...
- 1952: Walter R. G. Baker
- 1953: John M. Miller
- 1954: William L. Everitt
- 1955: Harald T. FriisHarald T. FriisHarald Trap Friis , who published as H. T. Friis, was a noted Danish-American radio engineer whose work at Bell Laboratories included pioneering contributions to radio propagation, radio astronomy, and radar...
- 1956: John V. L. Hogan
- 1957: Julius Adams StrattonJulius Adams StrattonJulius Adams Stratton was a U.S. electrical engineer and university administrator. He attended the University of Washington for one year, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , from which he graduated with a bachelor's...
- 1958: Albert HullAlbert HullAlbert W. Hull is most remembered for his early invention of the magnetron.-Education and early career:...
- 1959: Emory Leon Chaffee
- 1960: Harry NyquistHarry NyquistHarry Nyquist was an important contributor to information theory.-Personal life:...
- 1961: Ernst A. Guillemin
- 1962: Edward Victor AppletonEdward Victor AppletonSir Edward Victor Appleton, GBE, KCB, FRS was an English physicist.-Biography:Appleton was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge...
- 1963: George C. Southworth
- 1964: Harold A. Wheeler
- 1965: No Award
- 1966: Claude Elwood ShannonClaude Elwood ShannonClaude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"....
- 1967: Charles H. Townes
- 1968: Gordon K. TealGordon K. TealGordon Kidd Teal invented a method of applying the Czochralski method to produce extremely pure germanium single crystals used in making greatly improved transistors. He, together with Morgan Sparks invented a modification of the process that produced the configuration necessary for the...
- 1969: Edward GinztonEdward GinztonEdward Leonard Ginzton was a Ukrainian-American physicist.-Education:Ginzton completed his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D...
- 1970: Dennis GaborDennis GaborDennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....
- 1971: 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...
- 1972: Jay W. Forrester
- 1973: 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...
- 1974: Rudolf KalmanRudolf KalmanRudolf Emil Kálmán is a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematical system theorist, and college professor, who was educated in the United States, and has done most of his work there. He is currently a retired professor from three different institutes of technology and universities...
- 1975: John Robinson PierceJohn Robinson PierceJohn Robinson Pierce , was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his Ph.D...
- 1976: No Award
- 1977: H. Earle Vaughan
- 1978: Robert NoyceRobert NoyceRobert Norton Noyce , nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968...
- 1979: Richard BellmanRichard BellmanRichard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.-Biography:...
- 1980: William ShockleyWilliam ShockleyWilliam Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s...
- 1981: Sidney DarlingtonSidney DarlingtonSidney Darlington was an electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair...
- 1982: John TukeyJohn TukeyJohn Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American statistician.- Biography :Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D...
- 1983: Nicolaas BloembergenNicolaas BloembergenNicolaas Bloembergen is a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Leiden in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...
- 1984: Norman F. Ramsey
- 1985: John Roy WhinneryJohn Roy WhinneryJohn Roy Whinnery was an American electrical engineer and educator who worked in the fields of microwave theory and laser experimentation.-Biography:...
- 1986: 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...
- 1987: Paul LauterburPaul LauterburPaul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
- 1988: Calvin QuateCalvin QuateCalvin F. Quate was born on 7 December 1923 in Baker, Nevada. He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University....
- 1989: C. Kumar Patel
- 1990: Robert G. GallagerRobert G. GallagerRobert Gray Gallager is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1968 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. He received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory...
- 1991: Leo EsakiLeo EsakiReona Esaki also known as Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. He is known for his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon...
- 1992: Amos E. Joel, Jr.Amos E. Joel, Jr.Amos Edward Joel, Jr. was an American electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems....
- 1993: Karl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan Åström is a notable Swedish control theorist, who made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control.- Biography :...
- 1994: Alfred Y. ChoAlfred Y. ChoAlfred Yi Cho is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at...
- 1995: Lotfi A. Zadeh
- 1996: Robert MetcalfeRobert MetcalfeRobert Melancton Metcalfe is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law., he is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners...
- 1997: George H. HeilmeierGeorge H. HeilmeierGeorge Harry Heilmeier is an American engineer and businessman, who was a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays.-Biography:...
- 1998: Donald PedersonDonald PedersonDonald O. Pederson was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.- Biography :...
- 1999: Charles ConcordiaCharles ConcordiaCharles Concordia was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in electrical power engineering and the early history of computer hardware.-Biography:...
- 2000: Andrew GroveAndrew GroveAndrew Stephen Grove , is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American Businessman/ Engineer, Author & a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the U.S., where he finished his education...
- 2001: 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....
- 2002: Herbert KroemerHerbert KroemerHerbert Kroemer , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage...
- 2003: Nick HolonyakNick HolonyakNick Holonyak, Jr. invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York and has been called "the father of the light-emitting diode"...
- 2004: Tadahiro SekimotoTadahiro SekimotoTadahiro Sekimoto was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor , chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies , and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations who served as president and...
- 2005: James FlanaganJames Flanagan (engineer)James Loton Flanagan is an electrical engineer, and was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He is also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.He was chosen as the 2005...
- 2006: James D. MeindlJames D. MeindlJames D. Meindl is director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center, director of the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center, and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia...
- 2007: Thomas KailathThomas KailathThomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
- 2008: Gordon MooreGordon MooreGordon Earle Moore is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law .-Life and career:...
- 2009: Robert H. DennardRobert DennardRobert Dennard is an American electrical engineer and inventor.Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of...
- 2010: Andrew ViterbiAndrew ViterbiAndrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc....
- 2011: Morris ChangMorris ChangMorris Chang , is the founding Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. in 1987. TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world. Morris is known as the father of Taiwan's chip industry.Chang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang...