The National Academy of Engineering awards the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering,Charles Stark Draper Prize – Home which is given for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. It is one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Engineering"—the others are the Academy's Russ and Gordon Prizes. The Draper Prize is awarded biennially and the winner of each of these prizes receives $500,000.Charles Stark Draper Prize – Awards The Draper Prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of Draper Laboratory.
Recipients Year Recipient Citation Image Name 1989 Jack S. Kilby "For their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit." Robert N. Noyce 1991 Hans von Ohain "For their independent development of the turbojet engine." Frank Whittle 1993 John W. Backus "For the development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language." 1995 John R. Pierce "For their development of communication satellite technology." Harold A. Rosen 1997 Vladimir Haensel "For the development in chemical engineering of the Platforming ™ process." 1999 Charles K. Kao "For development of fiber-optic technology." Robert D. Maurer John B. MacChesney 2001 Vinton Cerf "For the development of the Internet." Robert Kahn Leonard Kleinrock Lawrence Roberts 2002 Robert S. Langer "For extraordinary contributions to the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems." 2003 Bradford W. Parkinson "For their technological achievements in the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS)." Ivan A. Getting 2004 Alan C. Kay "For the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers." Butler W. Lampson Robert W. Taylor Charles P. Thacker 2005 Minoru “Sam” Araki "For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system." Francis J. Madden Edward A. Miller James W. Plummer Don H. Schoessler 2006 Willard Boyle "For the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies." George Smith 2007 Tim Berners-Lee "For developing the World Wide Web." 2008 Rudolf Kalman "For the development and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products." 2009 Robert H. Dennard "For his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems." 2011 Frances H. Arnold "For directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products." Willem P.C. Stemmer 2012 George H. Heilmeier "For the engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices." Wolfgang Helfrich Martin Schadt T. Peter Brody 2013 Martin Cooper "For their pioneering contributions to the world's first cellular telephone networks." Joel S. Engel Richard H. Frenkiel Thomas Haug Yoshihisa Okumura 2014 John B. Goodenough "For engineering the rechargeable lithium-ion battery that enables compact, lightweight mobile devices." Yoshio Nishi Rachid Yazami Akira Yoshino 2015 Isamu Akasaki "For the invention, development, and commercialization of materials and processes for light-emitting diodes (LEDs)." M. George Craford Russell Dupuis Nick Holonyak Shuji Nakamura 2016 Andrew J. Viterbi "For development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics." 2018 Bjarne Stroustrup "For conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language." 2020 Jean Fréchet "For the invention, development, and commercialization of chemically amplified materials for micro- and nanofabrication, enabling the extreme miniaturization of microelectronic devices." C. Grant Willson 2022 David A. Patterson "For contributions to the invention, development, and implementation of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chips." John L. Hennessy Stephen B. Furber Sophie M. Wilson 2024 Stuart S.P. Parkin "For engineering spintronic technologies, enabling digital information storage that serves as a foundation for our data-driven world." 2026 Eric R. Fossum "For innovation, development, and commercialization of the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel image sensor 'camera-on-a-chip'."
See also
List of engineering awards
References