The Howard Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology is an annual award that was created by

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and endowed in 1975 by a grant from the Millicent Foundation, now a part of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The award was created as a tribute to the late C. Howard Vollum, a 1936 Reed graduate and lifelong friend of the college. For his senior thesis project, Vollum built an oscilloscope; he later went on to co-found

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, which revolutionized oscilloscope design and became a world leader in test, measurement, and monitoring technology. The award "recognizes and celebrates the exceptional achievement of one or more members of the scientific and technical community of the Northwest." Winners are selected for "the perseverance, creative imagination, ability to work with people, and fresh approach to problem solving that characterized Howard Vollum's career." Past recipients include Steve Jobs,

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, and

Leroy Hood Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood (born October 10, 1938) is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. Hood has developed ground-breaking scientific instrum ...

Recipients

*2014 - Ivan E. Sutherland *2013 - Kip S. Thorne *2012 -

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*2011 - Lynn M. Riddiford *2010 -

Brian Druker Brian J. Druker (born April 30, 1955) is a physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland, Oregon. He is the director of OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine. In 2 ...

*2009 - Carl E. Wieman *2008 - B. Kenneth Koe *2007 - Stanley Fields *2006 -

Daniel Bump Daniel Willis Bump (born 13 May 1952) is a mathematician who is a professor at Stanford University. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2015, for "contributions to number theory, representation theory, combinatorics, and ran ...

*2005 -

Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android. He also ...

*2004 - Warren M. Washington *2003 -

*2002 - Kenneth Raymond *2000 - James T. Russell *1999 -

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*1997 - Russell J. Donnelly *1996 - Edwin G. Krebs *1995 - Adele Goldberg *1994 - Brian W. Matthews *1993 - Lynwood W. Swanson *1992 - Jerry F. Franklin *1991 - Steve Jobs *1990 - Lewis H. Kleinholz *1989 - Michael L. Posner *1988 - Harold K. Lonsdale *1987 - Gertrude F. Rempfer *1986 - David Powell Shoemaker *1985 - Howard S. Mason *1984 -

and George Streisinger *1983 - Paul Lutus *1982 -

Victor Klee Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of ...

*1981 - M. Lowell Edwards and

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*1980 - Paul H. Emmett *1979 - Linus C. Pauling *1978 - C. Norman Winningstad *1977 - Arthur F. Scott *1976 - John M. Fluke *1975 - Douglas C. Strain

References

American awards Reed College Awards established in 1975 {{sci-award-stub