IRI Achievement Award

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The IRI Achievement Award, established by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) in 1973, is awarded "to honor outstanding accomplishment in individual creativity and innovation that contributes broadly to the development of industry and to the benefit of society." [1] The recipient is first nominated by an IRI member organization for his or her invention, innovation, or process improvement, and then voted on by a nine-member Awards Committee, led by the immediate past-chairman of IRI's Board of Directors. [2]

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The bronze sculpture known as the IRI Achievement Award represents the flight of innovation. The artist who designed the sculpture is John Blair. This award is presented each spring during IRI's Annual Meeting and is one of the highest honors awarded by the organization.

List of Recipients

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YearRecipientAchievement
1974William F. Gresham (DuPont) Instant Color Film
1975 William G. Pfann (Bell Labs)Ultra-High Purity Materials
1976 Maurice R. Hilleman (Merck) Vaccines
1977LeGrand 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
1988Howard 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
1994Marvin M. Johnson (Phillips Petroleum)Passivating Agents for Catalytic Cracking
1995Marinus Los (American Cyanamid) [13] Imidazolinone Herbicides
1996Andrzej M. Pawlak (General Motors) [14] Electromechanical Devices
1997 Stephanie Kwolek (DuPont) Liquid Crystal Polymers (Kevlar)
1998Simon 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
2002George Beall (Corning) [19] Breakthrough Innovations of Glass
2003Madan M. Bhasin (Dow Chemical) [20] Industrial Catalysis & Emission Reductions
2004No recipient
2005 Edith M. Flanigen (UOP) [21] Molecular Sieve Technology
2006 Dennis M. Ritchie (Bell Labs/AT&T/Lucent) [22] Unix Operating System
2007Paul 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
2010Ashok 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)
2012Richard Hayes (DuPont) [28] Polyacetal resins, modified polyesters, infrared absorbers, and gas separation membranes
2013John J. Curro (Procter & Gamble)Solid State Formation Technology
2014No recipient
2015No recipient
2016 Charles W. Hull (3D Systems) Stereolithography

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