PAST
WINNERS
2009 - James Baughman, Ford Motor
Company (Retired); David Cook, Ph.D. (Formerly with Ford
Motor Company); Keith Kowalsky; and Daniel Marantz - Flame-Spray
Industries, Inc. - for their invention of the Plasma Transferred Wire
ARC Thermal Spray Apparatus and Method (PTWA), a process that applies a
coating of modern metal to the interior of an aluminum engine, which
makes engines wear and heat resistant and improves fuel
economy.
2008 - Dr. Ihor Lys - Color
Kinetics (now Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions) - for his
development of Powercore®, a breakthrough in digital power
processing technology designed to increase efficiency, lower the overall
cost, and simplify installation of LED (light emitting diode) lighting
systems.
2007 - Dr. Raymond V. Damadian -
Fonar Corporation - for his development of the Upright Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine.
2006 - Philip Frank
Souter and Colin Ure - Procter & Gamble - for the
humanitarian efforts that led to the design and development of PuR®
Purifier of Water Sachets. The Foundation also recognized patented
innovation in the following categories: Industrial Design Inventors of
the Year: Christopher A. Arnholt, Paul M. Pierce and Tim J. Sutherland -
Motorola Inc. - for their development of the Motorola mobile
phone. Youth Inventor of the Year: Cassidy Goldstein, who
created the crayon holder, a patented drawing device, when she was 11
years old.
2005 - Stuart B. Rosenblum,
Sundeep Dugar, Duane A. Burnett, John W. Clader, and Brian A. McKittrick
- Schering-Plough Corporation - for their development of Zetia®
(ezetimibe) cholesterol medication.
2004 - James R. Weber and Scott
A. Leman - Caterpillar Inc. - for their development of an air and fuel
supply system designed to significantly reduce diesel
emissions.
2003 - Warren M. Zapol and Claes
Frostell - Massachussetts General Hospital - for their development of an
innovative treatment for pulmonary vasoconstriction and
asthma.
2002 - Nils U. Bang, Robert J.
Beckmann, Brian W. Grinnell, Daniel L. Hartman, S. Richard Jaskunas,
Mei-Hui T. Lai, Shila P. Little, George L. Long, Robert F. Santerre, and
Sau-Chi Betty Yan - Eli Lilly and Co. - for the development of
XigrisTM, a biotech
medicine treating adults with life-threatening, severe
sepsis.
2001 - M. Patricia Beckmann,
Raymond G. Goodwin, and Craig A. Smith - Immunex Corp. - a genetically
engineered drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other
diseases.
2000 - Gail K. Naughton -
Advanced Tissue Sciences - process to produce human organs for
transplatation.
1999 - Curt I. Civin - Johns
Hopkins University - invented a monoclonal antibody that binds to a
substance in human stem cells for bone marrow transplant.
1998 - Patricia D. Murphy,
Antonette C. Allen, Christopher P. Alvarez, Brenda S. Critz, Sheri J.
Olson, Denise Thurber, and Bin Zeng - Oncormed, Inc. - gene sequence
that enables testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian
cancer.
1997 - Dale J.
Kempf, Daniel W. Norbeck, Hing L. Sham, and Chen Zhao - Abbott
Laboratories - NORVIR®; Joseph P. Vaca, Bruce D. Dorsey, James P.
Guare, M. Katherine Holloway and Randall W. Hungate - Merck & Co.,
Inc. - CRIXIVAN®. Both inventions are HIV protease inhibitors for
treatment of AIDS.
1996
- William C. Atkinson, Robert P. Cloutier, Michael L. Wash, and Arthur
A. Whitfield - Eastman Kodak Co. - system utilizing magnetic tracks on
photographic film to store information.
1995 - Harold E.
Aller, and Adam C. Hsu - Rohm and Haas Company - insecticide that mimics
insect molting hormones of caterpillars.
1994 - Pak-Wing
Chum, George W. Knight, Shih-Yaw Lai, James C. Stevens, and John R.
Wilson - Dow Chemical Company - new family of
plastics.
1993 - Gary H.
Rasmusson and Glenn F. Reynolds - Merck & Co. - drug for treatment
of benign prostate enlargement.
1992
- Francis P. Carrubba, John Cocke, Norman H. Kreitzer, and George Radin
- IBM Corp. - Reduced Instruction Set Computing
(RISC).
1991
- Harvey E. Cline, Charles L. Dumoulin, Howard R. Hart, Jr., and Steven
P. Souza - General Electric Co. - phase-contrast magnetic resonance
angiography.
1990 - Howard L.
Benford, Gerald L. Holbrook, and Maurice B. Leising - Chrysler Corp. -
electronically controlled automatic transmission.
1989 - David V.
Goeddel, William J. Kohr, Diane Pennica, and Gordon A. Vehar -
Genentech, Inc. - DNA sequence encoding human t-PA, a clot-dissolving
drug for treating heart attack patients.
1988 - Alfred W.
Alberts, Carl H. Hoffman, Richard L. Monaghan, and Georg
Albers-Schonberg - Merck & Co. - lovastatin, a cholesterol-lowering
drug.
1987 - Amar G.
Bose and William R. Short - Bose Corp. - loudspeaker system employing a
folded acoustic waveguide.
1986 - Leo S.
Lin, Shji-Da Yu Lu, and David F. Mark - Cetus Corp. - "Cetus
Interleukin-2", a genetically engineered drug.
1985 - Jewell L.
Osterholm - Thomas Jefferson University - stroke treatment
system.
1984 - Robert E.
Fischell - Johns Hopkins University - Programmable Implantable
Medication System.
1983 - Robert
Jarvik - University of Utah - Jarvik Seven artificial
heart.
1982 - Donald
Asmus - independent inventor - device enabling paralyzed people to move
about in an upright position.
1981 - Paul
Macready - independent inventor - "Gossamer Condor," a human-powered
flying device.
1980 - William A.
Thornton, Jr. - work with lamps.
1979 - Barhbara
S. Askins - auto-radiographic image enhancement
process.
1978 - Gordon
Gould - optically-pumped lasers.
1977 - Edward S.
Bagley, William Doane, George F. Fanta, and Ollidene Weaver - "super
slurper water absorbant."
1976 - Emmett N.
Leith and Juris Upatneiks for contributions to
holography.
1975 - Mario
Puretic for a V-shaped pulley used with commercial fishing
nets.
1974 - Byron B.
Brenden for acoustical holograpy.