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In addition to the prize itself, prizes are also given for lifetime achievement, student inventors, and apprentice inventors.


LIST OF WINNERS



2005

  • Elwood "Woody" Norris for his invention of a hypersonic sound system, which allows sound to be focused with laser-like precision.



2004



2003

  • Leroy Hood for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.

  • William Murphy, Jr (Lifetime Achievement Award)

  • scienceNOW (Student Prize)



2002



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1999



1998

  • Robert Langer

  • Jacob Rabinow (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.

  • Akhil Madhani (Student Prize)



1997

  • Douglas Engelbart for his invention of the computer mouse.

  • Gertrude Elion (Lifetime Achievement Award) for the following inventions:

  • ---6-mercaptopurine (Purinethol), the first treatment for leukemia.

  • ---azathioprine (Imuran), the first immuno-suppressive agent, used for organ transplants.

  • ---allopurinol (Zyloprim), for gout.

  • ---pyrimethamine (Daraprim), for malaria.

  • ---trimethoprim (Septra), for meningitis, septicemia, and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts.

  • ---acyclovir (Zovirax), for viral herpes.

  • Nathan Kane (Student Prize)



1996

  • Stanley Cohen (Co-recipient) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.

  • Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.

  • Wilson Greatbatch (Lifetime Achievement Award) for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.

  • David Levy (Student Prize)



1995



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