NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science

Source: NAS

• Shuji Nakamura (2020, sustainability) "... for his pioneering discoveries, synthesis and commercial development of Gallium nitride LEDs and their use in sustainable solid-state light sources"
• Robert H. Dennard (2017, computer science) "... for seminal contributions in the field of Microelectronics for the invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), and CMOS scaling."
• James C. Liao (2014, bio-energy) "... production of higher alcohols as drop-in fuel from sugars, cellulose, waste protein, or carbon dioxide."
• H. Boyd Woodruff (2011, agriculture) "... multiple antibiotics, vitamin B12, and the avermectins.."
• Robert T. Fraley (2008) "... technologies that enabled the production of the world's first transgenic crops .."
• Philip Needleman (2005) "... metabolism of arachidonic acid in physiology and pathophysiology, which generates prostacyclin and thromboxane."
• J. Craig Venter (2002) "... using expressed sequence tags in genetic analyses, ... sequencing of microbial genomes, and his leadership in ... sequencing the human genome."
• Ralph F. Hirschmann (1999) "... chemical design and synthesis ... of numerous essential pharmaceuticals, such as anti-inflammatory steroids and anti-hypertensive compounds."
• John H. Sinfelt (1996) "... discovery of the principle of bimetallic cluster catalysis and the ... catalyst widely used in making lead-free gasoline."
• Nick Holonyak (1993) "... semiconductor materials and devices, including practical light-emitting diodes."
• Carl Djerassi (1990) "contributions to steroid chemistry [and] the first successful oral contraceptive.."

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