Winners

2026: Modern Neural Interfaces

Neural interfaces 2026

Professor Alim Louis Benabid, Professor Jocelyne Bloch, Professor Grégoire Courtine, Professor Graeme Clark, Professor John Donoghue, Professor Dr Erwin Hochmair, Dr Ingeborg Hochmair, Professor Pierre Pollak, Professor Blake Wilson


2025: Modern Machine Learning

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Dr Bill Dally, Dr Fei-Fei Li, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Jensen Huang, Professor John Hopfield, Dr Yann LeCun, Professor Yoshua Bengio


2024: Modern Wind Power Technology

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Dr Andrew Garrad CBE, Henrik Stiesdal


2023: PERC Solar Photovoltaic Technology

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Professor Martin Green, Professor Andrew Blakers, Dr Aihua Wang, Dr Jianhua Zhao


2022: The World's Strongest Permanent Magnet

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Dr Masato Sagawa


2021: LED Lighting

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Professor Isamu Akasaki, Professor Shuji Nakamura, Professor Nick Holonyak Jr, Dr M George Craford, Professor Russell Dupuis


2019: The Global Positioning System

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Dr Bradford Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, Professor James Spilker, Richard Schwartz


2017: Digital Imaging Sensors

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Eric Fossum, George Smith, Nobukazu Teranishi, Michael Tompsett


2015: Controlled Drug Delivery

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Dr Robert Langer


2013: The Internet and the Web

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Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen