NAE Awards $1.5 Million for Accomplishments in Engineering

January 5 -- The National Academy of Engineering will award the Charles Stark Draper Prize to Robert H. Dennard for his invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory. Elmer L. Gaden will receive the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize for pioneering the engineering of biological reactors for large-scale, low-cost production of antibiotics and other drugs. Thomas H. Byers and Tina L. Seelig will share the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for advancing education resources in technology entrepreneurship for engineering students and educators.

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