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== List of Lemelson–MIT Prize winners ==
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[[File:Stephen Quake (4866285813).jpg|120px|thumb|Stephen Quake]]<!-- 2012 -->
[[File:Rogers john2.jpg|120px|thumb|John A. Rogers]]<!-- 2011 -->
[[File:Carolyn Bertozzi IMG 9372.jpg|120px|thumb|Carolyn Bertozzi, receiving the Emanuel Merck Lectureship in 2011]]<!-- 2010 -->
[[File:Mirkin chad lecture.jpg|120px|thumb|Chad Mirkin]]<!-- 2009 -->
[[File:Web-2718-crop.jpg|120px|thumb|Joel Selanikio]]<!-- 2009 -->
[[File:SidneyPestka NationalMedalOfTech.jpg|120px|thumb|Sidney Pestka (middle) receives the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush (right).]]<!-- 2006 -->
[[File:Nick Holonyak Jr.jpg|120px|thumb|Nick Holonyak Jr.]]<!-- 2004 -->
[[File:Clinton-kamen.jpg|120px|thumb|President Clinton and Dean Kamen in the White House, Kamen riding the iBOT Mobility System]]<!-- 2002 -->
[[File:Raymond Kurzweil Fantastic Voyage.jpg|thumb|120px|Ray Kurzweil]]<!-- 2001 -->
[[File:Robert Langer MTMLecture 2008 09 25 portrait.JPG|120px|thumb|Bob Langer]]<!-- 1998 -->
[[File:Douglas Engelbart in 2008.jpg|120px|thumb|Douglas Engelbart]]<!-- 1997 -->

Source:<ref name="Lemelson">{{cite web | title=$500K Lemelson–MIT Prize Winners | website=Lemelson | url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/500k-prize-list | access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref>

;2019
* [[Cody Friesen]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref name=MIT20>{{Cite web|url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/winners_circle|title=Award Winners|publisher=Lemelson–MIT|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=14 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514141407/https://lemelson.mit.edu/winners_circle|url-status=dead}}</ref>

;2018
*  [[Luis von Ahn]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2018/september/von-ahn-lemelson-mit.html|title=Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson–MIT Prize for Invention|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref>

;2017
* [[Feng Zhang]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref name=MIT20 />

;2016
* [[Ramesh Raskar]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/09/14/india-born-mit-scientist-wins-a-500000-prize-for-invention/|title=India-Born MIT Scientist Wins a $500,000 Prize for Invention|last=Pokharel|first=Krishna|newspaper=WSJ|access-date=2016-10-19}}</ref>

;2015
* [[Aquion Energy|Jay Whitacre]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref>{{cite web|title=Inventor Creates First Mass-Produced Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Battery; Awarded $500,000 Lemelson–MIT Prize|url=http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/dr-jay-whitacre|website=Lemelson–MIT Program|access-date=16 September 2015|ref=Jay|archive-date=19 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919011202/http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/dr-jay-whitacre|url-status=dead}}</ref>

;2014
* [[Sangeeta N. Bhatia]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref name= MIT20 />

;2013
* [[Angela Belcher]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref>Rob Matheson, Angela Belcher wins $500,000 Lemelson–MIT Prize, ''MIT News'', June 4, 2013.</ref>
* [[Rebecca Richards-Kortum]] and Maria Oden (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)

;2012
*[[Stephen Quake]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/04/stanford-professor-wins-500g-mit-invention-prize/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605044043/http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/04/stanford-professor-wins-500g-mit-invention-prize/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 5, 2012 |title=Stanford professor wins $500G MIT invention prize |publisher=Fox News |date=2010-04-07 |access-date=2012-06-05}}</ref> (Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Professor of Biophysics and Genomics at Stanford University)
*[[Ashok Gadgil]] (Lemelson–MIT Award for Global Innovation)

;2011
*[[John A. Rogers]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (Professor, Physical Chemist, and Materials Scientist at Northwestern University)
*[[Elizabeth Hausler]] (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

;2010
*[[Carolyn Bertozzi]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
*BP Agrawal (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

;2009
* [[Chad Mirkin]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize), 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]]<ref>Joel Selanikio LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelselanikio</ref> (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability), CEO and co-founder, Magpi, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital

;2008
* [[Joseph DeSimone (inventor)|Joseph DeSimone]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
* [[Martin Fisher (inventor)|Martin Fisher]] (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

;2007
* [[Timothy M. Swager]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
* [[Lee Lynd]] (Lemelson–MIT Award for Sustainability)

;2006
* [[James Fergason]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his liquid crystal display innovations.
* [[Sidney Pestka]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

;2005
* [[Robert Dennard]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

;2004
* [[Nick Holonyak Jr.]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
* [[Edith M. Flanigen]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

;2003
* [[Leroy Hood]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of four devices that have helped unlock the human genome, including the automated DNA sequencer.
* [[William P. Murphy Jr.]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

;2002
* [[Dean Kamen]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) for his invention of the [[Segway PT|Segway]] and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
* [[Ruth R. Benerito]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)

;2001
* [[Raymond Kurzweil]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (Author, Computer scientist, Inventor and Futurist at Google)
* [[Raymond Damadian]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

;2000
* [[Thomas Fogarty]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
* [[Alfred J. Gross|Al Gross]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for his invention of the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager, and the cordless telephone.

;1999
* [[Carver Mead]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
* [[Stephanie Kwolek]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work on liquid-crystalline polymers and the development of the armored fabric [[Kevlar]].

;1998
* [[Robert Langer]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
* [[Jacob Rabinow]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) 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]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (computer and Internet pioneer) for his invention of the computer mouse.
* [[Gertrude Elion]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the following inventions:
**[[6-mercaptopurine]] (Purinethol), the first treatment for leukemia.
**[[azathioprine]] (Imuran), the first immunosuppressive agent, used for organ transplants.
**[[allopurinol]] (Zyloprim), for gout.
**[[pyrimethamine]] (Daraprim), for malaria.
**[[trimethoprim]] (Septra), for [[meningitis]], [[sepsis]], and bacterial infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts.
**[[acyclovir]] (Zovirax), for [[herpes simplex virus]] infection.

;1996
* [[Stanley Norman Cohen]] (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
* [[Herbert Boyer]] (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Prize) for the development of methods to combine and transplant genes.
* [[Wilson Greatbatch]] (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) for the development of batteries for the early implantable cardiac pacemakers.

;1995
* [[William Bolander]] (Lemelson–MIT Prize)
* [[William Reddington Hewlett|William Hewlett]] (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)
* [[David Packard]] (Co-recipient, Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award)<!-- [[WP:NFCC]] violation: David_Packard.jpg|David Packard (Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard) -->