Recipients of the Charles Stark Draper Prize

Results

2012
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.
George 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.
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.
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 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 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 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
Rudolf Kalman
Award:

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 Berners-Lee
Award:

Draper

Year:

2007
Citation:

For developing the World Wide Web.
2006
Willard 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.
George 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
Minoru Araki
Award:

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

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

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

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

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

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

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

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

Draper

Year:

2005
Citation:

For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
2004
Alan Kay
Award:

Draper

Year:

2004
Citation:

Vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers.
Butler Lampson
Award:

Draper

Year:

2004
Citation:

Vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers.
Robert Taylor
Award:

Draper

Year:

2004
Citation:

Vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers.
Charles Thacker
Award:

Draper

Year:

2004
Citation:

Vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers.

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