Recipients of the Charles Stark Draper Prize

Results

2013
Mr. Martin Cooper

Dyna, LLC
Award:

Draper

Year:

2013
Citation:

Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
Dr. Joel S. Engel

JSE Consulting
Award:

Draper

Year:

2013
Citation:

Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
Mr. Richard H. Frenkiel
Award:

Draper

Year:

2013
Citation:

Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
Dr. Thomas Haug
Award:

Draper

Year:

2013
Citation:

Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
Dr. Yoshihisa Okumura

Emeritus

Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Award:

Draper

Year:

2013
Citation:

Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
2012
Dr. T. Peter Brody

Chief Scientist

Advantech US
Award:

Draper

Year:

2012
Citation:

Engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices.
Dr. George H. Heilmeier

Chairman Emeritus

Bellcore
Award:

Draper

Year:

2012
Citation:

Engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices.
Dr. Wolfgang Helfrich

Professor

Free University of Berlin
Award:

Draper

Year:

2012
Citation:

Engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices.
Dr. Martin Schadt

Scientific Adviser
Award:

Draper

Year:

2012
Citation:

Engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices.
2011
Frances H. Arnold
Award:

Draper

Year:

2011
Citation:

For directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products.
Willem P.C. Stemmer
Award:

Draper

Year:

2011
Citation:

For directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products.
2009
Robert H. Dennard
Award:

Draper

Year:

2009
Citation:

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.
2008
Dr. Rudolf Kalman
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Draper

Year:

2008
Citation:

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.
2007
Timothy J. Berners-Lee
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Draper

Year:

2007
Citation:

For developing the World Wide Web.
2006
Dr. Willard S. Boyle
Award:

Draper

Year:

2006
Citation:

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.
Dr. George E. Smith
Award:

Draper

Year:

2006
Citation:

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.
2005
Mr. Minoru S. "Sam" Araki
Award:

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
Mr. Francis J. Madden
Award:

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
Dr. Edward A. Miller
Award:

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
Mr. James W. Plummer
Award:

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.

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