Medalha IRI

A Medalha IRI (em inglês: IRI Medal) é uma condecoração para inovação tecnológica e suas aplicações industriais estabelecida em 1946 pelo Industrial Research Institute, fundado em 1938 pela Fundação Nacional da Ciência, organização sem fins lucrativos, com sede no Condado de Arlington.

Premiados

• 1946: Willis R. Whitney (General Electric)^[1]
• 1947: Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto)^[2]
• 1948: Games Slayter (Owens Corning)^[3]
• 1949: Vannevar Bush (Office of Scientific R&D)^[4]
• 1950: Frank B. Jewett (Bell Labs)
• 1951: Randolph T. Major (Merck)
• 1952: Roy C. Newton (Swift & Company)^[5]
• 1953: Eger V. Murphree (Standard Oil of N.J.)
• 1954: Mervin Kelly (Bell Labs)
• 1955: Ernest H. Volwiler (Abbott Laboratories)
• 1956: Victor Conquest (Armour)
• 1957: Clifford F. Rassweiler (Johns Manville)
• 1958: Elmer W. Engstrom (RCA)
• 1959: Frank K. Schoenfeld (BFGoodrich)
• 1960: Augustus B. Kinzel (Union Carbide)
• 1961: Max Tishler (Merck)
• 1962: Chauncey Guy Suits (General Electric)^[6]
• 1963: James B. Fisk (Bell Labs)
• 1964: Ray H. Boundy (Dow Chemical)^[7]
• 1965: Edwin H. Land (Polaroid)
• 1966: Paul L. Salzberg (DuPont Central Research)
• 1967: Emanuel R. Piore (IBM)
• 1968: John H. Dessauer (Xerox)
• 1969: Patrick E. Haggerty (Texas Instruments)
• 1970: William Oliver Baker (Bell Labs)
• 1971: Henri G. Busignies (International Telephone & Telegraph)
• 1972: Peter C. Goldmark (Goldmark Communications)^[8]
• 1973: William E. Shoupp (Westinghouse)
• 1974: Robert W. Cairns (Hercules)
• 1975: James Hillier (RCA)
• 1976: Hendrik Casimir (N.V. Philips)
• 1977: John J. Burns (Hoffmann-La Roche)
• 1978: Malcolm E. Pruitt (Dow Chemical)
• 1979: Arthur M. Bueche (General Electric)^[9]
• 1980: Lewis Hastings Sarett (Merck)
• 1981: William H. Armistead (Corning)
• 1982: N. Bruce Hannay (Bell Labs)
• 1983: Edward E. David Jr. (Exxon R&E)
• 1984: Harry W. Coover (Eastman Chemical)^[10]
• 1985: Ralph E. Gomory (IBM)^[11]
• 1986: George E. Pake (Xerox)
• 1987: Ian M. Ross (Bell Labs)^[12]
• 1988: Abraham B. Cohen (DuPont)
• 1989: Roland W. Schmitt (General Electric)
• 1990: Edward M. Scolnick (Merck)^[13]
• 1991: Mary L. Good (AlliedSignal)
• 1992: John S. Mayo (Bell Labs)^[14]
• 1993: George H. Heilmeier (Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore))
• 1994: Walter L. Robb (General Electric)^[15]
• 1995: John J. Wise (Mobil)^[16]
• 1996: Robert A. Frosch (General Motors)^[17]
• 1997: Donald E. Elson (Black & Decker)
• 1998: Arno Penzias (Bell Labs/Lucent)^[18]
• 1999: John Seely Brown (Xerox)^[19]
• 2000: Gordon F. Brunner (Procter & Gamble)^[20]
• 2001: Philip Needleman (Pharmacia)^[21]
• 2002: Charles W. Deneka (Corning)
• 2003: Lewis S. Edelheit (General Electric)
• 2004: John W. Miley (Milliken & Company)
• 2005: Paul M. Horn (IBM)
• 2006: David O. Swain (Boeing)
• 2007: Nabil Y. Sakkab (Procter & Gamble)
• 2008: Ralph Snyderman (Duke University & Proventys, Inc.)
• 2009: Norman Ralph Augustine (Lockheed Martin)
• 2010: Nicholas M. Donofrio (IBM)
• 2011: Uma Chowdhry (DuPont)
• 2012: Emile Jacobs (Exxon Mobile Research)
• 2013: Robert S. Langer, George Whitesides^[22]
• 2014: Joseph DeSimone (Universidade da Carolina do Norte)
• 2015: Subra Suresh
• 2016: Vint Cerf, Peter Diamandis^[23]
• 2017: Jōichi Itō, Henry Chesbrough
• 2018: Yann LeCun^[24]

Referências

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18. Larson, Charles F. "Management for the New Millenium: The Challenge of Change", Research-Technology Management, Vol. 44, No. 6 (November–December 2001).
19. «"The Social Life of Information" -- About the Authors». Consultado em 14 de setembro de 2013. Arquivado do original em 8 de abril de 2012  Berkley Press, accessed Feb. 14, 2012.
20. «"Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Gordon Brunner To Retire"»  PRNewswire, May 4, 2000, accessed Feb. 14, 2012.
21. «"From a twinkle in the eye to a blockbuster drug: the story of Celebrex holds lessons for R&D leaders everywhere. (The IRI Medalist's Address) (Brief Article)"». Consultado em 14 de setembro de 2013. Arquivado do original em 29 de março de 2015  High Beam Research, Nov. 1, 2001, accessed Feb. 14, 2012.
22. «Industrial Research Institute Awards 2013 IRI Medal at Diamond Jubilee»  bei iri75.org; abgerufen am 4. Mai 2013
23. «2016 Annual Meeting - Grab The Future: Leveraging Technology Trends – IRI». iriweb.org (em inglês). 23 de maio de 2016. Consultado em 8 de setembro de 2016 
24. «Facebook's Yann LeCun Selected as 2018 IRI Medal Recipient». iriweb.org (em inglês). 6 de junho de 2018. Consultado em 23 de junho de 2019 

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