Lemelson–MIT Prize

The Lemelson–MIT Program awards several prizes yearly to inventors in the United States. The largest is the Lemelson–MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, funded by the Lemelson Foundation, and is administered through the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S.
The $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation was last awarded in 2013. The Award for Global Innovation replaced the $100,000 Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded from 1995 to 2006. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognized outstanding individuals whose pioneering spirit and inventiveness throughout their careers improved society and inspired others.
The Lemelson–MIT Program also awards invention prizes for graduate students, called the Lemelson–MIT Student Prize.

List of Lemelson–MIT Prize winners

Source:
;2019

Cody Friesen

;2018

Luis von Ahn

;2017

Feng Zhang

;2016

Ramesh Raskar

;2015

Jay Whitacre

;2014

Sangeeta N. Bhatia

;2013

Angela Belcher
Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden

;2012

Stephen Quake
Ashok Gadgil

;2011

John A. Rogers
Elizabeth Hausler

;2010

Carolyn Bertozzi
BP Agrawal

;2009

Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University
Joel Selanikio, CEO and co-founder, Magpi, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital

;2008

Joseph DeSimone
Martin Fisher

;2007

Timothy M. Swager
Lee Lynd

;2006

James Fergason for his liquid crystal display innovations.
Sidney Pestka

;2005

Robert Dennard

;2004

Nick Holonyak Jr.
Edith M. Flanigen

;2003

Leroy Hood for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.
William P. Murphy Jr.

;2002

Dean Kamen for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
Ruth R. Benerito

;2001

Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Damadian for his work in magnetic resonance imaging.

;2000

Thomas Fogarty
Al Gross for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.

;1999

Carver Mead
Stephanie Kwolek for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the armored fabric Kevlar.

;1998

Robert Langer
Jacob Rabinow for the first disc-shaped magnetic storage media for computers, the magnetic particle clutch, the first straight-line phonograph, the first self-regulating clock, and a "reading machine" which was the first to use the "best match" principle.

;1997

Douglas Engelbart for his invention of the computer mouse.
Gertrude Elion for the following inventions:
*6-mercaptopurine, the first treatment for leukemia.
*azathioprine, the first immunosuppressive agent, used for organ transplants.
*allopurinol, for gout.
*pyrimethamine, for malaria.
*trimethoprim, for meningitis, sepsis, and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts.
*acyclovir, for herpes simplex virus infection.

;1996

Stanley Norman Cohen for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
Herbert Boyer for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
Wilson Greatbatch for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.

;1995

William Bolander
William Hewlett
David Packard
List of Lemelson–MIT Student Prize winners

Source:
;2021

Paige Balcom
Nicole Black
Mira Moufarrej
Bruce Enzmann, Michael Lan, and Anson Zhou
Hilary Johnson
Benjamin Johnson and Zane Zents
Maya Burhanpurkar and Seung Hwan An

;2020

Daniela Blanco
Shriya Srinivasan
Tzu-Chieh Tang

;2019

Arnav Kapur
Mercy Asiedu
Julie Bliss Mullen
Federico Scurti