The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) named the winners of its 2012 Charles Stark Draper and Bernard M. Gordon Prizes yesterday, honoring the pioneers of the LCD and those who architected Harvey Mudd College’s engineering design curriculum, respectively. According to the NAE, the Draper Prize — honoring “those engineers whose accomplishment has had a significant impact on society by improving the quality of life, providing the ability to live freely and comfortably, and/or permitting the access to information” — went to George H. Heilmeier, Wolfgang Helfrich, Martin Shadt, and T. Peter Brody “for their efforts in the engineering of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer devices” today. From the NAE announcement:
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Archive for January 20th, 2012
