Marconi Prize

Marconi Prize

The Marconi Prize is an annual award by The Marconi Society, which recognizes advancements in information technology and communications. The Prize includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture, and honorees are called Marconi Fellows. The Society and Prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a 1909 Nobel laureate and one of the of pioneers of radio.[1]

Past winners of the Prize include Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for the development of Google, Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web, Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, Irwin Jacobs for wireless communications advances at Qualcomm, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

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Awardees

For an alphabetical list of awardees, see footnote[1]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Go to The Marconi Society website and click on "Fellows". Retrieved 2011-09-07.

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