Awards & Winners

2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 2011 National Medals Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

2011 National Medals Ceremony

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Frances Arnold

(For pioneering research on biofuels and chemicals that could lead to the replacement of pollution-generating materials.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

George Carruthers

(For invention of the Far UV Electrographic Camera, which significantly improved our understanding of space and earth science.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Robert S. Langer

(For inventions and discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems, engineered tissues, angiogenesis inhibitors, and new biomaterials.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Norman McCombs

(For the development and commercialization of pressure swing adsorption oxygen-supply systems with a wide range of medical and industrial applications that have led to improved health and substantially reduced health care costs)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Gholam A. Peyman

(For invention of the LASIK surgical technique, and for developing the field of intraocular drug administration and expanding the field of retinal surgery.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Arthur H. Rosenfeld

(For extraordinary leadership in the development of energy-efficient building technologies and related standards and policies.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Jan Vil?ek

(For pioneering work on interferons and key contributions to the development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Samuel E. Blum, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, James Wynne

(For the pioneering discovery of excimer laser ablative photodecomposition of human and animal tissue, laying the foundation for PRK and LASIK, laser refractive surgical techniques that have revolutionized vision enhancement.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

BBN Technologies

(For sustained innovation through the engineering of first-of-a-kind, practical systems in acoustics, signal processing, and information technology.)

Yearwise list of National Medal of Technology and Innovation Winners