| Year
|
Recipient
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Achievement
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| 1974
|
William F. Gresham (DuPont)
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Instant Color Film
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| 1975
|
William G. Pfann (Bell Labs)
|
Ultra-High Purity Materials
|
| 1976
|
Maurice R. Hilleman (Merck)
|
Vaccines
|
| 1977
|
LeGrand Van Uitert (Bell Labs)[citation needed]
|
Electronic Materials
|
| 1978
|
Robert H. Wentorf, Jr. (General Electric)[4]
|
Synthetic Diamonds and Cubic Boron Nitride
|
| 1979
|
Frank B. Colton (G.D. Searle & Co.)
|
Oral Contraceptives
|
| 1980
|
Stanley D. Stookey (Corning)
|
Photochromic Glasses
|
| 1981
|
Andrew H. Bobeck (Bell Labs)
|
Bubble Memory
|
| 1982
|
Robert N. Noyce (Intel)
|
Silicon Integrated Circuits
|
| 1983
|
Herbert W. Boyer (University of California)[5]
|
Recombinant DNA
|
| 1984
|
John W. Backus (IBM)
|
FORTRAN
|
| 1985
|
Allan S. Hay (General Electric)[6][7]
|
Polymerization by Oxidative Coupling
|
| 1986
|
John E. Franz (Monsanto)[8][9]
|
Roundup
|
| 1987
|
Robert D. Maurer (Corning)
|
Glass Fiber Wave Guides
|
| 1988
|
Howard G. Rogers (Polaroid)
|
Polyolefins
|
| 1989
|
Alfred Y. Cho (Bell Labs)[10]
|
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
|
| 1990
|
Robert H. Dennard (IBM)[11]
|
One-Transistor Dynamic Memory Cell
|
| 1991
|
Leonard S. Cutler (Hewlett-Packard)
|
Cesium Atomic Beam Clock
|
| 1992
|
Victor Mills (Procter & Gamble)
|
Synthetic Diamonds
|
| 1993
|
Richard H. Frenkiel (Bell Labs)[12]
|
Cellular Telephones
|
| 1994
|
Marvin M. Johnson (Phillips Petroleum)
|
Passivating Agents for Catalytic Cracking
|
| 1995
|
Marinus Los (American Cyanamid)[13]
|
Imidazolinone Herbicides
|
| 1996
|
Andrzej M. Pawlak (General Motors)[14]
|
Electromechanical Devices
|
| 1997
|
Stephanie Kwolek (DuPont)
|
Liquid Crystal Polymers (Kevlar)
|
| 1998
|
Simon F. Campbell (Pfizer)[15]
|
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
|
| 1999
|
James E. West (Bell Labs/Lucent)[16]
|
Foil Electret Microphone
|
| 2000
|
Harry W. Coover (Eastman Chemical)[17]
|
Cyanoacrylate Adhesives
|
| 2001
|
C. Donald Bateman (Honeywell)[18]
|
GPWS and Enhanced GPWS
|
| 2002
|
George Beall (Corning)[19]
|
Breakthrough Innovations of Glass
|
| 2003
|
Madan M. Bhasin (Dow Chemical)[20]
|
Industrial Catalysis & Emission Reductions
|
| 2004
|
No recipient
|
| 2005
|
Edith M. Flanigen (UOP)[21]
|
Molecular Sieve Technology
|
| 2006
|
Dennis M. Ritchie (Bell Labs/AT&T/Lucent)[22]
|
Unix Operating System
|
| 2007
|
Paul D. Trokhan (Procter & Gamble)[23]
|
Unique Density Paper Structures
|
| 2008
|
Rakesh Agrawal (Purdue University)[24]
|
Cryogenic Air Separation
|
| 2009
|
Dean L. Kamen (DEKA Research)[25]
|
Technologies that enhance quality of life
|
| 2010
|
Ashok V. Joshi (Ceramatec)[26]
|
New applications in Ionic Membranes
|
| 2011
|
Linden S. Blue (General Atomics)[27]
|
Military strategy, energy research, and 2nd Gen. Modular Helium Reactors (MHRs)
|
| 2012
|
Richard Hayes (DuPont)[28]
|
Polyacetal resins, modified polyesters, infrared absorbers, and gas separation membranes
|
| 2013
|
John J. Curro (Procter & Gamble)
|
Solid State Formation Technology
|
| 2014
|
No recipient
|
| 2015
|
No recipient
|
| 2016
|
Charles W. Hull (3D Systems)
|
Stereolithography
|