Charles Stark Draper Prize

The National Academy of Engineering annually awards the Charles Stark Draper Prize, which is given for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. It is one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Engineering" - the others being the Academy's Russ and Gordon Prizes. The winner of each of these prizes receives $500,000. The Draper prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial na... More
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Date Established:

  • 1989

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Presenting Organization

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences. As a national academy, it consists of members who are elected by...

Winners:

Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2009
  • for his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems
  • 2008
  • for the devlopment and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products.
  • 2007
  • for developing the World Wide Web.
  • 2006
  • for the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device, a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technology
  • 2005
  • for their work on Alto, the first practical networked computer
  • 2004
  • For their work on Alta, the first practical networked computer
  • 2003
  • for their work developing the Global Positioning System
  • 2002
  • for the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems.
  • 2001
  • for the development of the Internet
  • 1999
  • for the development of fiber optics
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