Lemelson-MIT Prize

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Lemelson-MIT Prize

HONOR

$500,000 award for inventors of merit, presented annually by MIT and named for inventor Jerome H. Lemelson.

1995 William Bolander

1996 Stanley Cohen and Herbert W. Boyer

1997 Doug Engelbart

1998 Robert S. Langer

1999 Carver A. Mead

2000 Thomas Fogarty

2001 Ray Kurzweil

2002 Dean Kamen

2003 Leroy Hood

2004 Nick Holonyak

2005 Elwood Norris

2006 James Fergason

2007 Timothy Swager

2008 Joseph DeSimone

2009 Chad Mirkin

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