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Draper Prize winners

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Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Frances Arnold
Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)
George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Frank Whittle
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996)
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Rudolf E. Kálmán
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
Butler Lampson
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
Nick Holonyak
American physicist (1928–2022)
Hans von Ohain
German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)
Charles P. Thacker
American computer pioneer (1943–2017)
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
American biomedical engineer
Robert Taylor
American computer scientist (1932–2017)
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist (1937–2018)
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author (1910–2002)
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer and inventor
Andrew Viterbi
Italian-born American electrical engineer and businessman
George H. Heilmeier
American engineer and businessman (1936-2014)
Stuart Parkin
British physicist
Bradford Parkinson
American systems engineer and developer of global positioning system
Charles Stark Draper Prize
one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Engineering"
Harold Rosen
Aerospace and electrical engineer (1926–2017)
Joel S. Engel
American engineer
Rachid Yazami
Moroccan scientist
Martin Schadt
Swiss physicist
Ivan A. Getting
American physicist and engineer
Russell D. Dupuis
American electrical engineer and physicist
T Peter Brody
Inventor of Active Matrix technology (1920–2011)
James W. Plummer
American aerospace engineer (1920–2013)
Robert D. Maurer
Physicist and Engineer
Richard H. Frenkiel
American engineer
Vladimir Haensel
American chemical engineer (1914-2002)