The Lemelson–MIT Program awards several prizes yearly to inventors in the United States. The largest is the Lemelson–MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, funded by the Lemelson Foundation, and is administered through the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S.
The $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation (previously named the Award for Sustainability) was last awarded in 2013. The Award for Global Innovation replaced the $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded from 1995 to 2006. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognized outstanding individuals whose pioneering spirit and inventiveness throughout their careers improved society and inspired others.
The Lemelson–MIT Program also awards invention prizes for graduate students, called the Lemelson–MIT Student Prize.
List of Lemelson–MIT Prize winners
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2019 Cody Friesen (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2018 Luis von Ahn (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2017 Feng Zhang (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2016 Ramesh Raskar (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2015 Jay Whitacre (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2014 Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
2013 Angela Belcher (Lemelson–MIT Prize)Rob Matheson, Angela Belcher wins $500,000 Lemelson–MIT Prize, MIT News, June 4, 2013. Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)
2012 Stephen Quake (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Professor of Biophysics and Genomics at Stanford University) Ashok Gadgil (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)
2011 John A. Rogers (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (Professor, Physical Chemist, and Materials Scientist at Northwestern University) Elizabeth Hausler (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2010 Carolyn Bertozzi (Lemelson–MIT Prize) BP Agrawal (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2009 Chad Mirkin (Lemelson–MIT Prize), George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University Joel SelanikioJoel Selanikio LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelselanikio (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability), CEO and co-founder, Magpi, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital
2008 Joseph DeSimone (Lemelson–MIT Prize) Martin Fisher (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2007 Timothy M. Swager (Lemelson–MIT Prize) Lee Lynd (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)
2006 James Fergason (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his liquid crystal display innovations. Sidney Pestka (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2005 Robert Dennard (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2004 Nick Holonyak Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Edith M. Flanigen (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2003 Leroy Hood (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer. William P. Murphy Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2002 Dean Kamen (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics. Ruth R. Benerito (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
2001 Raymond Kurzweil (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (Author, Computer scientist, Inventor and Futurist at Google) Raymond Damadian (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
2000 Thomas Fogarty (Lemelson–MIT Prize) Al Gross (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.
1999 Carver Mead (Lemelson–MIT Prize) Stephanie Kwolek (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the armored fabric Kevlar.
1998 Robert Langer (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jacob Rabinow (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the first disc-shaped magnetic storage media for computers, the magnetic particle clutch, the first straight-line phonograph, the first self-regulating clock, and a "reading machine" which was the first to use the "best match" principle.
1997 Douglas Engelbart (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (computer and Internet pioneer) for his invention of the computer mouse. Gertrude Elion (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the following inventions: 6-mercaptopurine (Purinethol), the first treatment for leukemia. azathioprine (Imuran), the first immunosuppressive agent, used for organ transplants. allopurinol (Zyloprim), for gout. pyrimethamine (Daraprim), for malaria. trimethoprim (Septra), for meningitis, sepsis, and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts. acyclovir (Zovirax), for herpes simplex virus infection.
1996 Stanley Norman Cohen (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes. Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes. Wilson Greatbatch (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.
1995 William Bolander (Lemelson–MIT Prize) William Hewlett (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) David Packard (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
List of Lemelson–MIT Student Prize winners
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2021 Paige Balcom (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Nicole Black (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Mira Moufarrej (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Bruce Enzmann, Michael Lan, and Anson Zhou (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Undergraduate Student Prize) Hilary Johnson (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Benjamin Johnson and Zane Zents (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Undergraduate Student Prize) Maya Burhanpurkar and Seung Hwan An (Move It! Lemelson–MIT Undergraduate Student Prize)
2020 Daniela Blanco (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Shriya Srinivasan (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Tzu-Chieh (Zijay) Tang (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2019 Arnav Kapur (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Mercy Asiedu (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Julie Bliss Mullen (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Federico Scurti (Move It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2018 Kayla Nguyen (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Tyler Clites (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Maher Damak (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Guy Satat (Drive It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2017 Apoorva Murarka (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Lisa Tostanoski (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Katy Olesnavage (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Tony Tao (Drive It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Natasha Wright (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2016 Achuta Kadambi (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Catalin Voss (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Dan Dorsch (Drive It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Heather Hava (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2015 Carl Schoellhammer (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Josh Siegel (Drive It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) Alexander Richter (Eat It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2014 Benjamin Peters (Use It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize) David Sengeh (Cure It! Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2013 Nikolai Begg (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2012 Miles Barr (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2011 Alice Chen (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2010 Erez Lieberman-Aiden (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2009 Geoffrey von Maltzahn (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2008 Timothy Lu (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2007 Nate Ball (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2006 Carl Dietrich (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2005 David Berry (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2004 Saul Griffith (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2003 James McLurkin (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2002 Andrew Heafitz (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2001 Brian Hubert (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
2000 Amy Smith (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
1999 Daniel DiLorenzo (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
1998 Akhil Madhani (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
1997 Nathan Kane (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
1996 David Levy (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
1995 Thomas Massie (Lemelson–MIT Graduate Student Prize)
See also List of engineering awards Lemelson Foundation Jerome H. Lemelson
References
External links Lemelson–MIT Program Official Website Lemelson–MIT Program: Winner's Circle Lemelson–MIT Program: Lemelson–MIT Prize