The Draper Prize
One of the world's preeminent awards for engineering achievement, The Charles Stark Draper Prize was established by the National Academy of Engineering and endowed by Draper Laboratory in 1988 to recognize innovative engineering achievements and their reduction to practice in ways that have led to important benefits and significant improvement in the well being and freedom of humanity.
The Prize recognizes achievement in all engineering disciplines, and engineers worldwide are eligible to receive it. The Prize is awarded annually during National Engineers Week in Washington, D.C.
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2009 Draper Prize Recipient
Robert H. Dennard
For his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems.
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Draper Prize Recipients will be Featured in "Hot Spots of Invention" Symposium
2003 Draper Prize recipient, Brad Parkinson, will give keynote at the “Hotspots of Invention” symposium at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center on Nov. 6. In addition, 1989 recipient Robert Noyce will be the topic of discussion at one of the symposium’s sessions on Nov. 7.
