The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the

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(IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this field of engineering. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and honorarium. The medal may only be awarded to a new leap/breakthrough in the technological area of science.

Background

The Edison Medal, named after the inventor and entrepreneur

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...

, was created on 11 February 1904 by a group of Edison's friends and associates. Four years later the

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(AIEE) entered into an agreement with the group to present the medal as its highest award. The first medal was presented in 1909 to

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. Other recipients of the Edison Medal include

George Westinghouse George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for bei ...

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian Americans, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He als ...

Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (;"Tesla"
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, Michael I. Pupin, Robert A. Millikan (Nobel Prize 1923), and Vannevar Bush. A complete and authoritative list is published by the IEEE online. After the merger of AIEE and the

Institute of Radio Engineers The Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until December 31, 1962. On January 1, 1963, it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to form the Institute of Electrical ...

(IRE), in 1963, to form the IEEE, it was decided that IRE's

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would be presented as IEEE's highest award, while the Edison Medal would become IEEE's principal medal. Twelve persons with an exceptional career in electrical engineering received both the IEEE Edison Medal and the IEEE Medal of Honor, namely

Edwin Howard Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awa ...

, Ernst Alexanderson, Mihajlo Pupin, Arthur E. Kennelly, Vladimir K. Zworykin,

John R. Pierce John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to ...

, Sidney Darlington, James L. Flanagan, Nick Holonyak, Robert H. Dennard, Dave Forney, and Kees Schouhamer Immink.

Recipients

The following people have received the IEEE Edison Medal: * 1909:

* 1910: Frank J. Sprague * 1911:

* 1912: William Stanley, Jr. * 1913: Charles F. Brush * 1914:

* 1915: No Award * 1916:

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* 1917: John J. Carty * 1918: Benjamin G. Lamme * 1919: William Le Roy Emmet * 1920: Mihajlo I. Pupin * 1921: Cummings C. Chesney * 1922: Robert A. Millikan * 1923: John W. Lieb * 1924: John White Howell * 1925: Harris J. Ryan * 1926: No Award * 1927: William D. Coolidge * 1928: Frank B. Jewett * 1929: Charles F. Scott * 1930: Frank Conrad * 1931: Edwin W. Rice * 1932: Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. * 1933: Arthur E. Kennelly * 1934: Willis R. Whitney * 1935: Lewis B. Stillwell * 1936: Alex Dow * 1937: Gano Dunn * 1938: Dugald C. Jackson * 1939: Philip Torchio * 1940: George Ashley Campbell * 1941: John B. Whitehead * 1942: Edwin H. Armstrong * 1943: Vannevar Bush * 1944: Ernst Alexanderson * 1945: Philip Sporn * 1946:

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* 1947: Joseph Slepian * 1948: Morris E. Leeds * 1949: Karl B. McEachron * 1950: Otto B. Blackwell * 1951: Charles F. Wagner * 1952: Vladimir K. Zworykin * 1953: John F. Peters * 1954: Oliver E. Buckley * 1955: Leonid A. Umansky * 1956: Comfort A. Adams * 1957: John K. Hodnette * 1958: Charles F. Kettering * 1959: James F. Fairman * 1960: Harold S. Osborne * 1961: William B. Kouwenhoven * 1962: Alexander C. Monteith * 1963:

* 1964: No Award * 1965: Walker Lee Cisler * 1966: Wilmer L. Barrow * 1967: George Harold Brown * 1968: Charles F. Avila * 1969: Hendrik Wade Bode * 1970: Howard H. Aiken * 1971: John Wistar Simpson * 1972: William Hayward Pickering * 1973: Bernard D. H. Tellegen * 1974: Jan A. Rajchman * 1975: Sidney Darlington * 1976: Murray Joslin * 1977: Henri G. Busignies * 1978: Daniel E. Noble * 1979: Albert Rose * 1980: Robert Adler * 1981: C. Chapin Cutler * 1982: Nathan Cohn * 1983: Herman P. Schwan * 1984: Eugene I. Gordon * 1985: John D. Kraus * 1986: James L. Flanagan * 1987: Robert A. Henle * 1988: James Ross MacDonald * 1989: Nick Holonyak, Jr. * 1990: Archie W. Straiton * 1991: John L. Moll * 1992: George D. Forney * 1993: James H. Pomerene * 1994: Leslie A. Geddes * 1995: Robert W. Lucky * 1996: Floyd Dunn * 1997: Esther M. Conwell * 1998: Rolf Landauer * 1999: Kees Schouhamer Immink * 2000: Jun-ichi Nishizawa * 2001: Robert H. Dennard * 2002: Edward E. Hammer * 2003: No Award * 2004: Federico Capasso * 2005: Peter Lawrenson * 2006: Fawwaz T. Ulaby * 2007: Russell Dupuis * 2008: Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky * 2009: Tingye Li * 2010: Ray Dolby * 2011: Isamu Akasaki * 2012: Michael Francis Tompsett * 2013: * 2014: Ralph Baer * 2015: James Spilker * 2016: Robert W. Brodersen * 2017: M. George Craford * 2018: Eli Yablonovitch * 2019: Ursula Keller * 2020: Frede Blaabjerg * 2021: * 2022: Alan Bovik * 2023: Hiroyuki Matsunami * 2024: Vincent W. S. Chan * 2025: Daniela Rus

References

External links

IEEE Edison Medal page at IEEE

Complete List of Edison Medal Recipients

IEEE Edison Medal Nomination Form

New York Times on the Edison Medal

IEEE Edison Medal page at IEEE Global History Network
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Background

Recipients

See also

References

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