Memorial pages by award

Charles Stark Draper Prize

one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Engineering"

Memorial Pages

24 memorial pages of recipients of the Charles Stark Draper Prize

Memorial

Wolfgang Helfrich

03/25/1932 – 09/28/2025

93 years

Berlin

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Robert D. Maurer

07/20/1924 – 09/09/2025

101 years

United States

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George E. Smith

05/10/1930 – 05/28/2025

95 years

Nobel prize winning American physicist

Barnegat

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Robert H. Dennard

09/05/1932 – 04/23/2024

91 years

American engineer and inventor

Croton-on-Hudson

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Thomas Haug

04/26/1927 – 12/09/2023

96 years

Norway

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Okumura Yoshihisa

07/02/1926 – 02/18/2023

96 years

Nonoichi

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Nick Holonyak

11/03/1928 – 09/20/2022

93 years

American physicist

Urbana

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Isamu Akasaki

01/30/1929 – 04/01/2021

92 years

Japanese engineer

Nagoya

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Lawrence Roberts

12/21/1937 – 12/26/2018

81 years

American computer scientist

Redwood City

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Don H. Schoessler

07/02/1924 – 11/15/2017

93 years

Fort Snelling National Cemetery

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Charles P. Thacker

02/26/1943 – 06/12/2017

74 years

American computer pioneer

Palo Alto

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Robert Taylor

02/10/1932 – 04/13/2017

85 years

American computer scientist

Woodside

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Rudolf E. Kálmán

05/19/1930 – 07/02/2016

86 years

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer

Gainesville

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Willem Stemmer

03/12/1957 – 04/02/2013

56 years

Kingdom of the Netherlands

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James W. Plummer

01/29/1920 – 01/16/2013

92 years

Medford

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Willard Boyle

08/19/1924 – 05/07/2011

86 years

Canadian physicist and inventor

Wallace

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John Backus

12/03/1924 – 03/17/2007

82 years

American computer scientist

Ashland

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Jack Kilby

11/08/1923 – 06/20/2005

81 years

American electrical engineer

Dallas

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Ivan A. Getting

01/18/1912 – 10/11/2003

91 years

Coronado

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John R. Pierce

03/27/1910 – 04/02/2002

92 years

American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author

Sunnyvale

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Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain

12/14/1911 – 03/13/1998

86 years

Melbourne

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Frank Whittle

06/01/1907 – 08/09/1996

89 years

Columbia

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Ira S. Bowen

12/21/1898 – 02/06/1973

74 years

United States

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Alfred Fowler

03/22/1868 – 06/24/1940

72 years

Ealing