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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

QE Prize Website
The QE Prize started in 2012. Winners receive £500,000 and a 3D-printed trophy.
2023 Award: Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) solar photovoltaic technology
Winners: Martin Green (Australia), Andrew Blakers (Australia), Aihua Wang (Australia), Zianhua Zhao (China / Australia).
2022 Award: Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnet
Winner: Masato Sagawa (Japan).
2021 Award: LED Lighting
Winners: Nick Holonyak (USA), Isamu Akasaki (Japan), M. George Craford (USA), Shuji Nakamura (USA), Russell Dupuis (USA).
2019 Award: Global Positioning System (GPS)
Winners: Bradford Parkinson (USA), James Spiker, Jr. (USA), Hugo FrueHauf (USA), Richard Schwartz (USA).
2017 Award: Digital Imaging Sensors
Winners: George E. Smith (USA), Michael Tompsett (UK), Nobukazu Teranishi (Japan), Eric Fossum (USA).
2015 Award: Controlled Drug Delivery
Winner: Robert Langer (USA).
2013 Award: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Winners: Robert Kahn (USA), Vinton Cerf (USA), Louis Pouzin (France), Tim Berners-Lee (UK), Marc Andreessen (USA).

Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork is a computer scientist and cryptographer, known for work on differential privacy and proof-of-work. (Image source: wikipedia.org).

Nobel Prizes in Physics Awarded to Engineers

2014 - Shuji Nakamura (USA) and Isamu Akasaki (Japan)
Invention of blue light-emitting diode (LED). Shared with physicist Hiroshi Amano (Japan).
2000 - Jack S. Kilby (USA)
Invention of the integrated circuit.
1984 - Simon van der Meer (Netherlands)
Discovery of W and Z field particles. Shared with physicist Carlo Rubbia (Italy).
1973 - Ivar Giaever (USA/Norway)
Experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors. Shared with physicist Leo Esaki (Japan).
1972 - John Bardeen (USA)
Development of the theory of superconductivity. Shared with physicists Leon Neil Cooper (USA) and John Robert Schrieffer (USA).
1971 - Dennis Gabor (Hungary/UK)
Invention and development of the holographic method.
1963 - Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungary/USA)
Contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles.
1956 - John Bardeen (USA) and William Bradford Shockley (USA)
Researches on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect. Shared with physicist Walter Houser Brattain (USA) .
1933 - Paul Dirac (UK)
Discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. Shared with physicist Erwin Schrödinger (Austria).
1909 - Guglielmo Marconi (Kingdom of Italy) and Karl Ferdinand Braun (German Empire).
Contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.
1903 - Henri Becquerel (France)
Discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. Shared with physicists Pierre Curie (France) and Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Poland/France).
1901 - Wilhelm Röntgen (German Empire)
"...in recognition of extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."