IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award Recipients

IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award

2009 - LARRY F. WEBER
President, Society for Information Display (SID)
San Jose, CA, USA

“For pioneering contributions to Plasma Display Technology and its commercialization.”

2008 - JAMES M. DAUGHTON
Founder, President/CEO/CTO
NVE Corporation
Eden Prairie, MN, USA

and

STUART PARKIN
IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center; Director, IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center (SpinAps)
San Jose, CA, USA

and

SAIED TEHRANI
MRAM Technology Director
Freescale Semiconductor
Chandler, AZ, USA 

“For fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory.”

2007 - STEPHEN R. FORREST
Vice President for Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

and

RICHARD H. FRIEND
Professor
Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge, United Kingdom

and

CHING WAN TANG
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA

“For pioneering contributions to the development of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)”

2006 - CARLOS A. PAZ DE ARAUJO
Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, CO, USA

"For fundamental contributions and commercialization in the field of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FeRAM)."

2005 - DAVID L. HARAME
Director of Enablement for Semiconductor Research and Development Center
IBM
Essex Junction, VT, USA

'For the development of manufacturable Silicon Germanium, HBT Bipolar and BiCMOS technologies.'

2004 - LARRY J. HORNBECK
Texas Instruments Fellow, Texas Instruments
Plano, TX, USA

'For his pioneering work and sustained development of the Digital Micromirror Device, used in projection displays.'

2003 - KENICHI IGA
Executive Director
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Tokyo, Japan

'For pioneering developments of surface emitting semiconductor lasers and arrays.'

2002 - MASATAKA NAKAZAWA
Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC)
Tohoku University, Miyagi-Ken, JAPAN

'For pioneering development of 1.48 µm InGaAsP laser-diode pumping of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA).'