Awards & Winners

1985 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 1985 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 1985 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Bell Labs

(For contribution over decades to modern communication systems.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Fred Brooks, Erich Bloch, Bob O. Evans

(For their contributions to the development of the hardware, architecture and systems engineering associated with the IBM System/360, a computer system and technologies which revolutionized the data processing industry and which helped to make the United States dominant in computer technology for many years.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak

(For their development and introduction of the personal computer which has sparked the birth of a new industry extending the power of the computer to individual users.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Marvin M. Johnson

(For his discovery and development of metal passivating agents for catalytic cracking catalysts which have become economically effective methods permitting refineries to process crude oils with higher metal contents, particularly heavy crude oil types, and have contributed to United States' competitiveness in this technological area.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Ralph Landau

(For his technical, leadership and entrepreneurial roles in the development of commercially successful petrochemical processes which have been licensed or jointly developed and have helped maintain U.S. leadership in petrochemical processing.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

John T. Parsons, Frank L. Stulen

(For their development and successful demonstration of the numerically-controlled machine tool for the production of three-dimensional shapes, which has been essential for the production of commercial airliners and which is seminal for the growth of the robotics, CAD-CAM, and automated manufacturing industries.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Harold Rosen, Allen E. Puckett

(For their technological contributions and leadership in the initiation and development of geostationary communications satellites, significantly improving worldwide communications and giving the United States international preeminence in the construction of commercial satellites.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Joe Sutter

(For his technical and managerial contributions to the development and introduction of generations of jet-powered commercial aircraft which have made the United States the predominant supplier of passenger transport aircraft.)

Yearwise list of National Medal of Technology and Innovation Winners