The Lemelson – MIT Prize is the annual award for inventors. Named after the inventor . He allocated funds for the main prize of 500 thousand dollars and put them at the disposal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Gradually added additional prizes, including for university students. Established in 1994, awarded from 1995. Among those awarded one Nobel Prize winner.
Most Famous Laureates
- Hewlett, William Reddington (1995)
- Packard, David (1995)
- Greytbatch, Wilson (1996)
- Boyer, Herbert (1996)
- Cohen, Stanley Norman (1996)
- Engelbart, Douglas (1997)
- Elyon, Gertrude (1997)
- Langer, Robert (1998)
- Kwolek, Stephanie (1999)
- Kurzweil, Raymond (2001)
- Damadian, Raymond (2001)
- Kamen, Dean (2002)
- Hood, Leroy (2003)
- Holonyak, Nick (2004)
- Dennard, Robert (2005)
- Fergason, James (2006)
- DeSimone, Joseph (2008)
- Mirkin, Chad (2009)
- Bertozzi, Caroline (2010)