Marconi Prize

The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing advancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation. The Prize includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture. The honorees are called Marconi Fellows. The foundation and the prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio.

Past winners of the Marconi Prize include Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for the development of Google, Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web, Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Marconi Prize winners:

• 1975: James Rhyne Killian
• 1976: Hiroshi Inose
• 1977: Arthur Leonard Schawlow
• 1978: Edward Colin Cherry
• 1979: John Robinson Pierce
• 1980: Yash Pal
• 1981: Seymour Papert
• 1982: Arthur C. Clarke
• 1983: Francesco Carassa
• 1984: Eric Albert Ash
• 1985: Charles Kuen Kao
• 1986: Leonard Kleinrock
• 1987: Robert Wendell Lucky
• 1988: Federico Faggin
• 1989: Robert N. Hall
• 1990: Andrew J. Viterbi
• 1991: Paul Baran
• 1992: James L. Flanagan
• 1993: Izuo Hayashi
• 1994: Robert E. Kahn
• 1995: Jacob Ziv
• 1996: Gottfried Ungerboeck
• 1997: G. David Forney, Jr.
• 1998: Vinton G. Cerf
• 1999: James L. Massey
• 2000: Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie
• 2001: Herwig Kogelnik and Allan Snyder
• 2002: Tim Berners-Lee
• 2003: Robert Metcalfe and Robert G. Gallager
• 2004: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
• 2005: Claude Berrou
• 2006: John M. Cioffi
• 2007: Ronald L. Rivest
• 2008: David N. Payne
• 2009: Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach
• 2010: Charles Geschke and John Warnock
• 2011: Jack Wolf and Irwin M. Jacobs
• 2012: Henry Samueli
• 2013: Martin Cooper
• 2014: Arogyaswami Paulraj
• 2015: Peter Kirstein

See also

• Marconi Society
• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people
• NAB Marconi Radio Awards

External links

• The Marconi Foundation website
• Who Invented Radio?
• Technology's top honors, awards and prizes, including the Marconi Prize