The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the

Institute of Radio Engineers The Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until December 31, 1962. On January 1, 1963, it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to form the Institute of Electrical a ...

(IRE), the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who had "made public during the recent past an important contribution to radio communications". The award continued to be awarded as the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award by the board of directors of the

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(IEEE) after the IRE organization merged into the IEEE in 1963. The scope was changed to "for important contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years". After 2000, the award was superseded by the

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Recipients

The following people received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award: * 2000 – James S. Harris, Jr. * 1998 –

Naoki Yokoyama (March 28, 1949 - ) is a Japanese electrical engineer, active in the fields of nanotechnology and electronic and photonic devices, best known for his success in fabricating hot-electron transistors and invention of resonant-tunneling transisto ...

* 1997 –

Fujio Masuoka is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics. He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash ...

* 1996 – Seiki Ogura * 1995 –

M. George Craford M. George Craford (born December 29, 1938) is an American electrical engineer known for his work in Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Raised in an Iowa farming community, he studied physics at the University of Iowa, where he earned his BA in 1961. ...

* 1994 – Lubomyr T. Romankiw * 1993 –

B. Jayant Baliga Bantval Jayant Baliga (born in Chennai) is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). Dr. B. Jayant Baliga wrote: "Power ...

* 1992 –

Praveen Chaudhari Praveen Chaudhari (November 30, 1937 – January 12, 2010) was an Indian American physicist who has contributed to the field of material physics. His research focused on structure and properties of amorphous solids, defects in solids, mechanical ...

, Jerome J. Cuomo, and

Richard J. Gambino Richard J. Gambino (1935–2014) was a distinguished American material scientist best known for his pioneering work with amorphous magnetic materials. Gambino received his BA in 1957 from the University of Connecticut, and MS in 1976 from the Poly ...

* 1991 – Morton B. Panish * 1990 – Satoshi Hiyamizu and Takashi Mimura * 1989 –

Takanori Okoshi Takanori Okoshi (大越孝敬; born September 16, 1932) is a noted Japanese professor of electrical engineering, now retired, and an amateur composer of over 30 pieces of chamber music for quartet or sextet. Okoshi was born in Tokyo, where his ...

* 1988 – James R. Boddie and Richard A. Pedersen * 1986 – Bishnu S. Atal and

Fumitada Itakura is a Japanese scientist. He did pioneering work in statistical signal processing, and its application to speech analysis, synthesis and coding, including the development of the linear predictive coding (LPC) and line spectral pairs (LSP) methods. ...

* 1985 –

Russell D. Dupuis Russell Dean Dupuis (born 9 July 1947) is an American physicist. He holds the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has made pioneering contributions to metalor ...

and Harold M. Manasevit * 1984 – David E. Carlson and Christopher R. Wronski * 1983 – Robert W. Brodersen, Paul R. Gray, and

David A. Hodges David Albert Hodges (1937–2022) was an American electrical engineer, digital telephony pioneer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Hodges was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering ...

* 1982 – John Arthur, Jr. and

Alfred Y. Cho Alfred Yi Cho (; born July 10, 1937) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. He is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular be ...

* 1981 – Calvin F. Quate * 1980 – Anthony J. Demaria * 1979 – Ping King Tien * 1978 –

Charles K. Kao Sir Charles Kao Kuen Charles K. Kao was elected in 1990
as a memb ...

, John B. MacChesney, and

Robert D. Maurer Robert D. Maurer (born July 20, 1924) is an American industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber. In 1979, Maurer was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the technolog ...

* 1977 –

Horst H. Berger Horst H. Berger (born March 30, 1933) is a German electrical engineer noted for his contributions to semiconductor technologies for integrated circuits. Berger was born in Liegnitz (Legnica), Lower Silesia, and received the Vordiplom. from the T ...

and Siegfried K. Wiedmann * 1976 – Herbert John Shaw * 1975 – A. H. Bobeck, P. C. Michaelis, and H. E. D. Scovil * 1974 – Willard Boyle and

George E. Smith George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semico ...

* 1973 –

Nick Holonyak Nick Holonyak Jr. ( ; November 3, 1928September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was t ...

* 1972 – Stewart E. Miller * 1971 –

Martin Ryle Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio source ...

* 1970 – John A. Copeland * 1969 –

J. B. Gunn John Battiscombe "J. B." Gunn (13 May 1928 – 2 December 2008), known as Ian or Iain, was a British physicist, who spent most of his career in the United States. He discovered the Gunn effect, which led to the invention of the Gunn diode, t ...

* 1968 – Emmett N. Leith * 1966 –

Paul K. Weimer Dr. Paul K. Weimer (November 5, 1914 – January 6, 2005) was a noted contributor to the development of television and the thin-film transistor (TFT). Weimer was born in Wabash, Indiana. He received a B.A. in math and physics from Manchester Unive ...

* 1965 – William R. Bennett, Jr. * 1964 –

Arthur L. Schawlow Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser act ...

The following people received the IRE Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize: * 1963 –

Ian Munro Ross Ian Munro Ross FREng (15 August 1927 – 10 March 2013) was an early pioneer in transistors, and for 12 years President of Bell Labs. Ross was born in Southport, England, and in 1948 received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from ...

* 1962 – Victor H. Rumsey * 1961 –

Leo Esaki Reona Esaki (江崎玲於奈 ''Esaki Reona'', born March 12, 1925), also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in ...

* 1960 – Jan A. Rajchman * 1959 –

Nicolaas Bloembergen Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a p ...

and

Charles H. Townes Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated wi ...

* 1958 – E. L. Ginzton * 1957 – O. G. Villard, Jr. * 1956 – Kenneth Bullington * 1955 – A. V. Loughren * 1954 – R. R. Warnecke * 1953 – John Alvin Pierce * 1952 –

William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly ...

* 1951 – R. B. Dome * 1950 – O. H. Schade * 1949 –

C. E. Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory". As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Inst ...

* 1948 – S. W. Seeley * 1947 –

John Robinson Pierce John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to hi ...

* 1946 – Albert Rose * 1945 – P. C. Goldmark * 1944 –

W. W. Hansen William Webster Hansen (May 27, 1909 – May 23, 1949) was an American physicist and professor. He was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. Biography Hansen's father William G Hansen, who was a son of immigrants from Den ...

* 1943 –

Wilmer L. Barrow Wilmer Lanier Barrow (July 26, 1903 – August 29, 1975) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, teacher, industrial manager, and a counselor to government agencies. He obtained a BSEE degree in 1926 from Louisiana State University, and ...

* 1942 – S. A. Schelkunoff * 1941 –

Philo T. Farnsworth Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television. He is best known for his 1927 invention of t ...

* 1940 – Harold Alden Wheeler * 1939 – H. T. Friis * 1938 – G. C. Southworth * 1937 – W. H. Doherty * 1936 – B. J. Thompson * 1935 – F. B. Llewellyn * 1934 –

Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Kosma Zworykin; or with the patronymic as ''Kosmich''; or russian: Кузьмич, translit=Kuz'mich, label=none. Zworykin anglicized his name to ''Vladimir Kosma Zworykin'', replacing the patronymic with the name ''Kosma'' as a middle na ...

* 1933 –

Heinrich Barkhausen Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (2 December 1881 – 20 February 1956), born in Bremen, was a German physicist. Growing up in a patrician Bremen family, he showed interest in natural sciences from an early age. He studied at the Technical Univer ...

* 1932 –

Edmond Bruce Edmond Bruce (September 28, 1899 – November 28, 1973) was an American radio pioneer best known for creating the rhombic antenna and Bruce array. Bruce was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, and Wash ...

* 1931 –

Stuart Ballantine Charles Stuart Ballantine (September 22, 1897May 7, 1944) was an American Invention, inventor. Ballantine was born in the Germantown, Philadelphia, Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an amateur radio enthusiast by 1908 and se ...

* 1930 –

Albert Hull Albert Wallace Hull (19 April 1880 – 22 January 1966) was an American physicist and electrical engineer who made contributions to the development of vacuum tubes, and invented the magnetron. He was a member of the National Academy of Scienc ...

* 1929 – E. V. Appleton * 1928 – W. G. Cady * 1927 – A. H. Taylor * 1926 –

Ralph Bown Ralph Bown (1891 – July 1971) was a noted American radio pioneer. Bown was born in Fairport, New York, and received his M.E., M.M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University where he also taught physics. He served as a captain in the United ...

* 1925 –

Frank Conrad Frank Conrad (May 4, 1874 – December 10, 1941) was an electrical engineer, best known for radio development, including his work as a pioneer broadcaster. He worked for the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, P ...

* 1924 – J. R. Carson * 1923 –

Harold Beverage Harold Henry "Bev" Beverage (October 14, 1893 – January 27, 1993) was an inventor and researcher in electrical engineering. He is known for his invention and development of the wave antenna, which came to be known as the Beverage antenna. Less ...

* 1922 – C. S. Franklin * 1921 – R. A. Heising * 1920 – R. A. Weagant * 1919 – L. F. Fuller

References

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