Awards & Winners

Dean Kamen

Date of Birth 05-April-1951
Place of Birth Rockville Centre
(Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Dean L. Kamen
Profession Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Engineer
Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born on Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the drug infusion pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.

Awards by Dean Kamen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Dean Kamen.

2007


2000


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology. At age 49 this self-made inventor has founded three medical device companies and earned more than 100 U.S. and foreign patents. And he still has found time to start and run a national youth organization and robotics competition to catch young imaginations and start their inventive potential humming.)