The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by 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), the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who had "made public during the recent past an important contribution to radio communications". The award continued to be awarded as the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award by the board of directors of the

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(IEEE) after the IRE organization merged into the IEEE in 1963. The scope was changed to "for important contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years". After 2000, the award was superseded by the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award.

Recipients

The following people received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award: * 2000 – James S. Harris, Jr. * 1998 – Naoki Yokoyama * 1997 –

Fujio Masuoka is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics. He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash ...

* 1996 – Seiki Ogura * 1995 – M. George Craford * 1994 – Lubomyr T. Romankiw * 1993 –

B. Jayant Baliga Bantval Jayant Baliga (born in Chennai) is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). In 1993, Baliga was elected as a ...

* 1992 – Praveen Chaudhari, Jerome J. Cuomo, and Richard J. Gambino * 1991 – Morton B. Panish * 1990 – Satoshi Hiyamizu and Takashi Mimura * 1989 – Takanori Okoshi * 1988 – James R. Boddie and Richard A. Pedersen * 1986 – Bishnu S. Atal and

Fumitada Itakura is a Japanese scientist. He did pioneering work in statistical signal processing, and its application to speech analysis, synthesis and coding, including the development of the linear predictive coding (LPC) and line spectral pairs (LSP) metho ...

* 1985 – Russell D. Dupuis and Harold M. Manasevit * 1984 – David E. Carlson and Christopher R. Wronski * 1983 – Robert W. Brodersen, Paul R. Gray, and David A. Hodges * 1982 – John Arthur, Jr. and Alfred Y. Cho * 1981 – Calvin F. Quate * 1980 – Anthony J. Demaria * 1979 – Ping King Tien * 1978 – Charles K. Kao, John B. MacChesney, and Robert D. Maurer * 1977 – Horst H. Berger and Siegfried K. Wiedmann * 1976 – Herbert John Shaw * 1975 – A. H. Bobeck, P. C. Michaelis, and H. E. D. Scovil * 1974 – Willard Boyle and George E. Smith * 1973 – Nick Holonyak * 1972 – Stewart E. Miller * 1971 – Martin Ryle * 1970 – John A. Copeland * 1969 – J. B. Gunn * 1968 – Emmett N. Leith * 1966 – Paul K. Weimer * 1965 – William R. Bennett, Jr. * 1964 – Arthur L. Schawlow The following people received the IRE Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize: * 1963 –

Ian Munro Ross Ian Munro Ross FREng (15 August 1927 – 10 March 2013) was an early pioneer in transistors, and for 12 years President of Bell Labs. Ross was born in Southport, England, and in 1948 received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering fro ...

* 1962 – Victor H. Rumsey * 1961 – Leo Esaki * 1960 – Jan A. Rajchman * 1959 –

Nicolaas Bloembergen Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch- American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a ...

and Charles H. Townes * 1958 – E. L. Ginzton * 1957 – O. G. Villard, Jr. * 1956 – Kenneth Bullington * 1955 – A. V. Loughren * 1954 – R. R. Warnecke * 1953 – John Alvin Pierce * 1952 –

William Shockley William Bradford Shockley ( ; February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American solid-state physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brat ...

* 1951 – R. B. Dome * 1950 – O. H. Schade * 1949 – C. E. Shannon * 1948 – S. W. Seeley * 1947 –

John Robinson 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 hi ...

* 1946 – Albert Rose * 1945 – P. C. Goldmark * 1944 – W. W. Hansen * 1943 – Wilmer L. Barrow * 1942 – S. A. Schelkunoff * 1941 – Philo T. Farnsworth * 1940 – Harold Alden Wheeler * 1939 – H. T. Friis * 1938 – G. C. Southworth * 1937 – W. H. Doherty * 1936 – B. J. Thompson * 1935 – F. B. Llewellyn * 1934 –

Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in t ...

* 1933 – Heinrich Barkhausen * 1932 – Edmond Bruce * 1931 – Stuart Ballantine * 1930 – Albert Hull * 1929 – E. V. Appleton * 1928 – W. G. Cady * 1927 – A. H. Taylor * 1926 – Ralph Bown * 1925 –

Frank Conrad Frank Conrad (May 4, 1874 – December 10, 1941) was an American electrical engineer, best known for radio development, including his work as a pioneer broadcaster. He worked for the Westinghouse Electric (1886), Westinghouse Electrical and Manuf ...

* 1924 – J. R. Carson * 1923 –

Harold Beverage Harold Henry "Bev" Beverage (October 14, 1893 – January 27, 1993) was an American inventor and researcher in electrical engineering. He is known for his invention and development of the wave antenna, which came to be known as the Beverage ante ...

* 1922 – C. S. Franklin * 1921 – R. A. Heising * 1920 – R. A. Weagant * 1919 – L. F. Fuller

References

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