# Medalha IRI

A Medalha IRI (em inglês: IRI Medal) é uma condecoração para inovação tecnológica e suas aplicações industriais estabelecida em 1946 pelo Industrial Research Institute, fundado em 1938 pela Fundação Nacional da Ciência, organização sem fins lucrativos, com sede no Condado de Arlington.

## Premiados

* 1946: Willis R. Whitney (General Electric)
* 1947: Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto)
* 1948: Games Slayter (Owens Corning)
* 1949: Vannevar Bush (Office of Scientific R&D)
* 1950: Frank B. Jewett (Bell Labs)
* 1951: Randolph T. Major (Merck)
* 1952: Roy C. Newton (Swift & Company)
* 1953: Eger V. Murphree (Standard Oil of N.J.)
* 1954: Mervin Kelly (Bell Labs)
* 1955: Ernest H. Volwiler (Abbott Laboratories)
* 1956: Victor Conquest (Armour)
* 1957: Clifford F. Rassweiler (Johns Manville)
* 1958: Elmer W. Engstrom (RCA)
* 1959: Frank K. Schoenfeld (BFGoodrich)
* 1960: Augustus B. Kinzel (Union Carbide)
* 1961: Max Tishler (Merck)
* 1962: Chauncey Guy Suits (General Electric)
* 1963: James B. Fisk (Bell Labs)
* 1964: Ray H. Boundy (Dow Chemical)
* 1965: Edwin H. Land (Polaroid)
* 1966: Paul L. Salzberg (DuPont Central Research)
* 1967: Emanuel R. Piore (IBM)
* 1968: John H. Dessauer (Xerox)
* 1969: Patrick E. Haggerty (Texas Instruments)
* 1970: William Oliver Baker (Bell Labs)
* 1971: Henri G. Busignies (International Telephone & Telegraph)
* 1972: Peter C. Goldmark (Goldmark Communications)
* 1973: William E. Shoupp (Westinghouse)
* 1974: Robert W. Cairns (Hercules)
* 1975: James Hillier (RCA)
* 1976: Hendrik Casimir (N.V. Philips)
* 1977: John J. Burns (Hoffmann-La Roche)
* 1978: Malcolm E. Pruitt (Dow Chemical)
* 1979: Arthur M. Bueche (General Electric)
* 1980: Lewis Hastings Sarett (Merck)
* 1981: William H. Armistead (Corning)
* 1982: N. Bruce Hannay (Bell Labs)
* 1983: Edward E. David Jr. (Exxon R&E)
* 1984: Harry W. Coover (Eastman Chemical)
* 1985: Ralph E. Gomory (IBM)
* 1986: George E. Pake (Xerox)
* 1987: Ian M. Ross (Bell Labs)
* 1988: Abraham B. Cohen (DuPont)
* 1989: Roland W. Schmitt (General Electric)
* 1990: Edward M. Scolnick (Merck)
* 1991: Mary L. Good (AlliedSignal)
* 1992: John S. Mayo (Bell Labs)
* 1993: George H. Heilmeier (Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore))
* 1994: Walter L. Robb (General Electric)
* 1995: John J. Wise (Mobil)
* 1996: Robert A. Frosch (General Motors)
* 1997: Donald E. Elson (Black & Decker)
* 1998: Arno Penzias (Bell Labs/Lucent)
* 1999: John Seely Brown (Xerox)
* 2000: Gordon F. Brunner (Procter & Gamble)
* 2001: Philip Needleman (Pharmacia)
* 2002: Charles W. Deneka (Corning)
* 2003: Lewis S. Edelheit (General Electric)
* 2004: John W. Miley (Milliken & Company)
* 2005: Paul M. Horn (IBM)
* 2006: David O. Swain (Boeing)
* 2007: Nabil Y. Sakkab (Procter & Gamble)
* 2008: Ralph Snyderman (Duke University & Proventys, Inc.)
* 2009: Norman Ralph Augustine (Lockheed Martin)
* 2010: Nicholas M. Donofrio (IBM)
* 2011: Uma Chowdhry (DuPont)
* 2012: Emile Jacobs (Exxon Mobile Research)
* 2013: Robert S. Langer, George Whitesides
* 2014: Joseph DeSimone (Universidade da Carolina do Norte)
* 2015: Subra Suresh
* 2016: Vint Cerf, Peter Diamandis
* 2017: Jōichi Itō, Henry Chesbrough
* 2018: Yann LeCun