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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - March 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ...

History

• 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 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.'

Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Leo Esaki (江崎 玲於奈; correct transcription Esaki Reona; also known as Esaki Leona) (born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Jack Kilby holding an old calculator and one of the newest. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Paul Christian Lauterbur, (born May 6, 1929) is an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Norman Foster Ramsey (born August 27, 1915) is an American physicist. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920) is an Dutch physicist. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... William Shockley William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) American physicist, eugenicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (5th June, 1900, Budapest - 9th February, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist who is most notable for inventing holography. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, American physicist and educator. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi, GCVO (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the radio. Marconi was President of the Accademia dItalia and a member of the Fascist Grand Council...

Recent recipients

• James Flanagan
• Tadahiro Sekimoto
• Nick Holonyak
• Herbert Kroemer
• Herwig Kogelnik
• Andrew Grove

Nick Holonyak Jr. ... Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ... Andrew Grove Andrew Stephen Grove (born September 2, 1936) is co-founder and chairman of Intel Corporation. ...

External link

• List of IEEE Medal of Honor recipients