Awards & Winners

1989 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 1989 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 1989 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Robert Everett, Jay Wright Forrester

(For their creative work in developing the technologies and applying computers to real-time applications. Their important contributions proved vital to national and free world defense and opened a new era of world business.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Herbert Boyer, Stanley Norman Cohen

(For their fundamental invention of gene splicing techniques allowing replication in quantity of biomedically important new products, and beneficially transformed plant materials. This discovery of recombinant DNA technology has transformed the basic science of molecular biology and the biotechnology industry.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Helen T. Edwards, Richard A. Lundy, J. Ritchie Orr, Alvin Tollestrup

(For their contributions to the design, construction and initial operation of the TEVATRON particle accelerator. The scientific instrument was designed to explore the fundamental properties of matter. The innovative design and successful operation of the TEVATRON has been crucial to the design of the Superconducting Super Collider, the planned next generation particle accelerator.)

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