IEEE Medal of Honor

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The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the IEEE, and has been awarded once each year since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium. The medal was originally the IRE Medal of Honor until the merger with the IEEE.

Citations

• The Nobel prize laureat Herbert Kroemer received the Medal of Honor in 2002 'For contributions to high-frequency transistors and hot-electron devices, especially heterostructure devices from heterostructure bipolar transistors to lasers, and their molecular beam epitaxy technology'

• The Father of Fuzzy Logic, Lotfi A. Zadeh receive the Medal of Honor in 1995 'For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Leo Esaki received the Medal of Honor in 1991 'For contributions to and leadership in tunneling, semiconductor superlattices, and quantum wells.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Jack St Clair Kilby received the Medal of Honor in 1986 'For fundamental contributions to semiconductor integrated circuit technology.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Paul Lauterbur received the Medal of Honor in 1987 'For the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Norman F. Ramsey received the Medal of Honor in 1984 'For fundamental contributions to very high accuracy time and frequency standards exemplified by the cesium atomic clock and hydrogen maser oscillator.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Nicolaas Bloembergen received the Medal of Honor in 1983 'For pioneering contributions to quantum electronics including the invention of the three-level maser'.

• The Nobel prize laureat William Shockley received the Medal of Honor in 1980 'For the invention of the junction transistor, the analog and the junction field-effect transistor, and the theory underlying their operation.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Dennis Gabor received the Medal of Honor in 1970 'For his ingenious and exciting discovery and verification of the principles of holography.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Charles H. Townes received the Medal of Honor in 1967 'For his significant contributions in the field of quantum electronics which have led to the maser and the laser.'

• The Nobel prize laureat Guglielmo Marconi received the Medal of Honor in 1920 'In recognition of his pioneer work in radio telegraphy.'

Recipients

• James D. Meindl (2006)
• James Flanagan (2005)
• Tadahiro Sekimoto (2004)
• Nick Holonyak (2003)
• Herbert Kroemer (2002)
• Herwig Kogelnik (2001)
• Andrew Grove (2000)
• Lotfi A. Zadeh (1995)
• Alfred Y. Cho (1994)
• Leo Esaki (1991)
• Paul Lauterbur (1987)
• Jack Kilby (1986)
• John R. Whinnery (1985)
• Norman F. Ramsey (1984)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (1983)
• William Shockley (1980)
• Robert Noyce (1978)
• Dennis Gabor (1970)
• Charles H. Townes (1967)
• Vladimir Zworykin (1951)
• Lloyd Espenschied (1940)
• George Ashley Campbell (1936)
• Jonathan Zenneck (1928)
• Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1926)
• Mihajlo Pupin (1924)
• Lee De Forest (1922)
• Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1921)
• Guglielmo Marconi (1920)
• Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (1919)
• Edwin H. Armstrong (1917)

External link

• List of IEEE Medal of Honor recipientsja:IEEE栄誉賞