Awards & Winners

1997 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 1997 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 1997 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Vint Cerf, Robert E. Kahn

(For creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Norman Ralph Augustine

(For visionary leadership of the aerospace industry, for championing technical and managerial solutions to the many challenges in civil and defense systems, and for contributions to the United States world preeminence in aerospace.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Ray Dolby

(For inventing technologies that have dramatically improved sound recording and reproduction, fostering their adoption worldwide, and maintaining a vision that for more than 30 years has kept the world listening.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Robert Ledley

(For pioneering contributions to biomedical computing and engineering, including inventing the whole-body CT scanner which revolutionized the practice of radiology, and for his role in developing automated chromosome analysis for prenatal diagnosis of birth defects.)

Yearwise list of National Medal of Technology and Innovation Winners