Awards & Winners

1988 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 1988 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 1988 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

John L. Atwood

(For distinguished leadership, technical competence and integrity in the technological advancement of aviation and space travel.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Arnold Orville Beckman

(For exceptional creativity in designing analytical instruments that are recognized as the best in the world and for developing a successful business whose products have helped to keep the United States in the forefront of chemistry, chemical engineering and biotechnology.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Paul Cook

(For his vision and entrepreneurial efforts, his technical accomplishments and his business and technical leadership as the key contributor in creating a worldwide chemically based industry.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Raymond Vahan Damadian, Paul Lauterbur

(For their independent contributions in conceiving and developing the application of magnetic resonance technology to medical uses including whole body scanning and diagnostic imaging.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Robert Dennard

(For invention of the basic one-transistor dynamic memory cell used worldwide in virtually all modern computers.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Harold Eugene Edgerton

(For the invention of the electronic stroboscopic flash and for finding a multitude of applications for it within science, technology and industry.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Kelly Johnson

(For his outstanding achievements in the design of a series of commercial, military, and reconnaissance aircraft that incorporated a wide range of technological advancements, and for his innovative management techniques which helped develop and produce these aircraft in record time and at a minimum cost.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Edwin H. Land

(For the invention, development and marketing of instant photography.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

David Packard

(For extraordinary and unselfish leadership in both industry and government, particularly in widely diversified technological fields which strengthened the competitiveness and defense capabilities of the United States.)

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