Von Hippel Award

Von Hippel Award Recipients

• Cato T. Laurencin, University of Connecticut (2020)

  "For pioneering work in engineering of musculoskeletal tissues, for extraordinary work guiding technology and science policy, and for promoting ethnic diversity and excellence in science"

  Cato T. Laurencin is internationally-renowned in biomaterials science. He is the University Professor and Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor at the University of Connecticut.  He earned his BSE degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University, his PhD degree in biochemical engineering/biotechnology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD degree magna cum laude from the Harvard Medical School. Laurencin published the seminal papers and patents on nanomaterials science for tissue regeneration. For pioneering work on polymer-ceramic systems for bone regeneration, he was named one of the 100 Engineers of the Modern Era by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The pioneer of the field of regenerative engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Laurencin the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize "for signal contributions to the advancement of science in the United States." He is the only individual to receive both the oldest/highest award of the National Academy of Engineering (the Simon Ramo Founder’s Award) and the oldest/highest award of the National Academy of Medicine (the Walsh McDermott Medal).

• Jerry D. Tersoff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2019)

  

  "For advancing the understanding of low-dimensional and nanoscale electronic materials, surfaces and interfaces, through elegant theoretical models that highlight the essential physics controlling growth, structure and electronic properties”

   

• Hideo Hosono, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2018)

  

  
  “For the discovery of high Tc iron-based superconductors, creation of transparent oxide semiconductors and inorganic electrides”

• C.N.R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (2017)

  
  “For his immense interdisciplinary contributions to the development of novel functional materials, including magnetic and electronic properties of transition metal oxides, nanomaterials such as fullerenes, graphene and 2-D inorganic solids, superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance in rare-earth cuprates and manganates”

  
  

• Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University (2016)

  

  
  “For pioneering contributions to nanoscience, defining the foundations of rational synthesis of nanoscale wires, characterization of their fundamental physical properties, and the development of applications of these materials in chemistry, biology and medicine”

  
   
  

• Sir Richard H. Friend, University of Cambridge (2015)

  
  
  
  
   
  
• Marvin L. Cohen, University of California, Berkeley (2014)

  

  
  
  

   

   

• Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Stuart S.P. Parkin, IBM Almaden Research Center (2012)

  
  
  
  
   
• A. Paul Alivisatos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley (2011)

  
  
  
  
   
  
  
• L. Eric Cross, The Pennsylvania State University (2010)

  
  
  
    
  
  

• Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University (2009)

  
  
  
  
    
  
  
• Herbert Gleiter, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (2008)

  
  
  
  
    

• William Nix, Stanford University (2007)

  
  
  
  
   
• Knut Wolf Urban, Forschungszentrum Juelich (2006)

  
  
  
  
   
• Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)

  
  
  
  
   
  
  
• Nick Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004)

  
  
  
  
    

• Julia R. Weertman, Northwestern University (2003)

  
  
  
  
   
• Howard K. Birnbaum, University of Illinois (2002)

  
  
  
  
   

• Simon C. Moss, University of Houston (2001)

  
  
  
  
   
  
  
• George M. Whitesides, Harvard University (2000)

  

  
  

  
   

   

• Richard S. Stein, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1999)

  
  
   
   

   

• Larry L. Hench, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1998)

  
  
  
  
   

• Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley (1997)

  
  
  
  
   

• Sir Alan H. Cottrell, University of Cambridge (1996)

  
  

   

   

• William W. Mullins, Carnegie Mellon University (1995)

  

   

  
  

   

• Alfred Y. Cho, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1994)

  
  
   
   

• Frederick Seitz, The Rockefeller University (1993)

  
  
  
   

• Michael F. Ashby, University of Cambridge (1992)

  
  
  
  
      
  
• Theodore H. Geballe, Stanford University (1991)

  
  
  
  
   
  
  
• Robert W. Balluffi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990)

  
  
  
  
  
  

• John B. Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin (1989)

  
  
  
  
  
  

• Jacques Friedel, Université de Paris-Sud (1988)

  
  
  
  
   

• Sir Charles Frank, University of Bristol (1987)

  
  
  
  
   
  
• Minko Balkanski, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1986)

  
  
  
   
   
   
  
• John W. Cahn, National Bureau of Standards (1985)

  

   

   

   
• Walter L. Brown, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984)

  

   

   

   
• Sir Peter B. Hirsch, University of Oxford (1983)

  
  
  
  
    
• Clarence M. Zener, Carnegie Mellon University (1982)

  
  
  
  

   

   
• James W. Mayer, Cornell University (1981)

  

   

   

   

• W. Conyers Herring, Stanford University (1980)

  

   

   

   

• David Turnbull, Harvard University (1979)

  

   

   

   

• William O. Baker, Bell Laboratories (1978)

  

   

   

   
  

• Arthur von Hippel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976)