Laureates

• 1911 - W. W. Coblentz (Physics)
• 1912 - William A. Bone (Chemistry)
• 1913 - James A. Bizzell (Earth Science)
• 1913 - T. L. Lyon (Earth Science)
• 1914 - Ralph Modjeski
  Ralph Modjeski
  Ralph Modjeski was a Polish-born American civil engineer who achieved prominence as a pre-eminent bridge designer in the United States.-Life:...
  
   (Engineering)
• 1916 - William J. Humphreys (Physics)
• 1916 - William S. Murray
  William S. Murray
  William S. Murray was an American engineer. Lake Murray in South Carolina is named after him.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Unknown)
• 1917 - Ulric Dahlgren (Life Science)
• 1918 - Alexander Gray (Engineering)
• 1918 - A. E. Kennelly (Engineering)
• 1918 - Louis Vessot King (Engineering)
• 1919 - Reynold Janney (Engineering)
• 1919 - Clarence P. Landreth (Chemistry)
• 1919 - Harvey D. Williams (Engineering)
• 1920 - Wendell Addison Barker (Invention)
• 1920 - Edward P. Bullard, Jr. (Engineering)
• 1921 - E. V. McCollum (Life Science)
• 1921 - Alfred O. Tate (Engineering)
• 1922 - Ernest G. Coker (Physics)
• 1922 - Charles R. Downs (Chemistry)
• 1922 - Richard B. Moore (Chemistry)
• 1922 - J. M. Weiss (Chemistry)
• 1923 - Albert W. Hull (Chemistry)
• 1924 - John A. Anderson
  John August Anderson
  John August Anderson was an American astronomer. He was born in Rollag, a small community in Clay County, Minnesota to the south of Hawley....
  
   (Engineering)
• 1924 - William Gaertner (Engineering)
• 1925 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.- Biography:...
  
   (Physics)
• 1926 - William D. Coolidge (Physics)
• 1926 - Howard W. Matheson (Chemistry)
• 1927 - George E. Beggs (Physics)
• 1927 - Marion Eppley (Engineering)
• 1928 - Eugene C. Sullivan (Chemistry)
• 1928 - William C. Taylor (Chemistry)
• 1928 - Oscar G. Thurow (Engineering)
• 1931 - Benno Strauss (Engineering)
• 1932 - George Paget Thomson
  George Paget Thomson
  Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.-Biography:...
  
   (Physics)
• 1933 - Igor I. Sikorsky (Engineering)
• 1934 - Ernst Georg Fischer (Engineering)
• 1936 - F. A. Vening Meinesz (Engineering)
• 1937 - John Clyde Hostetter (Engineering)
• 1938 - Lars Olai Grondahl (Engineering)
• 1939 - Newcomb K. Chaney (Engineering)
• 1939 - H. Jermain Creighton (Engineering)
• 1941 - Harold Eugene Edgerton
  Harold Eugene Edgerton
  Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
  
   (Engineering)
• 1942 - Jesse Wakefield Beams (Physics)
• 1942 - Harcourt Colborne Drake (Engineering)
• 1942 - Bernard Lyot
  Bernard Lyot
  Bernard Ferdinand Lyot was a French astronomer.His interest in astronomy started in 1914. He soon acquired a telescope and soon upgraded to a . From graduation in 1918 until 1929, he worked as a demonstrator at the Ecole Polytechnique...
  
   (Physics)
• 1943 - Don Francisco Ballen (Life Science)
• 1943 - Paul Renno Heyl (Physics)
• 1945 - Edwin A. Link (Engineering)
• 1946 - Ira Sprague Bowen
  Ira Sprague Bowen
  Ira Sprague Bowen was an American astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium was not really a chemical element but instead doubly ionized oxygen.-Life and work:...
  
   (Physics)
• 1946 - Bengt Edlen
  Bengt Edlén
  Bengt Edlén was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He participated in solving the Corona Mystery: unidentified spectral lines in the sun's spectrum were speculatively believed to originate from a hitherto unidentified chemical element termed coronium...
  
   (Physics)
• 1946 - Sanford Alexander Moss
  Sanford Alexander Moss
  Sanford Alexander Moss was an aviation engineer, he was the first to use a turbocharger on an aircraft engine.-Biography:...
  
   (Engineering)
• 1947 - Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Engineering)
• 1948 - Eugene J. Houdry (Chemistry)
• 1948 - Clarence A. Lovell (Engineering)
• 1948 - David Bigelow Parkinson (Engineering)
• 1949 - J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1949 - Clinton Richards Hanna (Engineering)
• 1949 - John William Mauchly (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1950 - Merle A. Tuve (Engineering)
• 1951 - Basil A. Adams (Engineering)
• 1951 - Clifford Foust (Physics)
• 1951 - Eric Leighton Holmes (Chemistry)
• 1956 - Edwin H. Land
  Edwin H. Land
  Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision...
  
   (Engineering)
• 1958 - William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. (Engineering)
• 1958 - Emanuel Rosenberg (Engineering)
• 1959 - George W. Morey (Engineering)
• 1960 - Charles Stark Draper
  Charles Stark Draper
  Charles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which under his direction designed and built the Apollo...
  
   (Engineering)
• 1962 - Wilbur H. Goss (Engineering)
• 1964 - Erwin W. Muller (Engineering)
• 1965 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell (Engineering)
• 1966 - Robert Kunin (Chemistry)
• 1967 - John L. Moll
  John L. Moll
  John Louis Moll was an American electrical engineer, notable for his contributions to solid-state physics....
  
   (Engineering)
• 1968 - Heinrich Focke (Engineering)
• 1969 - Albert Ghiorso
  Albert Ghiorso
  Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned five decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.-Early life:...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 1969 - Charles P. Ginsburg (Engineering)
• 1970 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
  
   (Life Science)
• 1971 - William David McElroy (Life Science)
• 1972 - Jacques Ernest Piccard (Engineering)
• 1973 - Charles Howard Vollum (Engineering)
• 1974 - Jay W. Forrester (Engineering)
• 1975 - LeGrand G. Van Uitert (Engineering)
• 1976 - Stephanie L. Kwolek (Engineering)
• 1976 - Paul W. Morgan (Engineering)
• 1977 - Godfrey N. Hounsfield (Life Science)
• 1978 - Michael Szwarc
  Michael Szwarc
  Michael Szwarc was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization.- Biography :...
  
   (Chemistry)
• 1979 - Seymour R. Cray (Computer and Cognitive Science)
• 1979 - Richard T. Whitcomb (Engineering)
• 1980 - Stanley G. Mason (Physics)
• 1981 - A. Uno Lamm (Engineering)
• 1982 - Charles G. Overberger (Chemistry)
• 1983 - George G. Guilbault (Life Science)
• 1983 - Paul C. Lauterbur (Physics)
• 1985 - William Cochran
  William Cochran (physicist)
  William Cochran was a prominent Scottish physicist.Bill Cochran was born in Scotland and educated at Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD under Arnold Beevers in the Chemistry Department in X-ray crystallography of...
  
   (Life Science)
• 1986 - Martin D. Kruskal (Physics)
• 1986 - Norman J. Zabusky (Physics)
• 1988 - Dudley Dean Fuller (Engineering)
• 1989 - Charles W. Oatley (Physics)
• 1991 - Richard E. Morley
  Dick Morley
  Richard Morley is known as the "father" of the programmable logic controller since he was involved with the production of the first PLC for General Motors, the Modicon, at Bedford and Associates in 1968. The Modicon brand of PLC is now owned by Schneider Electric...
  
  (Computer and Cognitive Science)