The Marconi Prize is an annual award that the Marconi Society gives for outstanding achievements and advancements in communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, the Internet, etc.). Prizewinners receive in-person recognition from distinguished colleagues and other guests as well as a work of sculpture at the Marconi Society's annual symposium and gala.
Criteria The Marconi Prize is awarded based on the candidate’s contributions in the following areas:
The significance of the impact of the nominee’s work on widely-used technology. The scientific importance of the nominee’s work in setting the stage for, influencing, and advancing the field beyond the nominee’s own achievements. The nominee’s contributions to innovation and entrepreneurship by introducing completely new ideas, methods, or technologies. These may include forming, leading, or advising organizations, mentoring students on moving ideas from research to implementation, or fostering new industries/enabling scale implementation. The social and humanitarian impact of the nominee’s contributions to the design, development, and/or deployment of new communication technologies or communications public policies that promote social development and/or inclusiveness.
Marconi Fellowships Marconi Prize recipients are also named Marconi Fellows. The foundation and the prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio communications. Fellows are expected to pursue further creative work to advance the understanding and development of communications technologies for the benefit of mankind.
List of Marconi Prize winners First given in 1975, the prize has gone to such notable figures as Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for inventing search engine Google, Tim Berners-Lee for his leadership and innovations in establishing the World Wide Web, Nobel Laureate Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for creating the Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
1975: James Rhyne Killian 1976: Hiroshi Inose 1977: Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1978: Colin Cherry 1979: John Robinson Pierce 1980: Yash Pal 1981: Seymour Papert 1982: Arthur C. Clarke 1983: Francesco Carassa 1984: Eric Albert Ash 1985: Charles Kuen Kao 1986: Leonard Kleinrock 1987: Robert Wendell Lucky 1988: Federico Faggin 1989: Robert N. Hall 1990: Andrew J. Viterbi 1991: Paul Baran 1992: James L. Flanagan 1993: Izuo Hayashi 1994: Robert E. Kahn 1995: Jacob Ziv 1996: Gottfried Ungerboeck 1997: G. David Forney, Jr. 1998: Vinton G. Cerf 1999: James L. Massey 2000: Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie 2001: Herwig Kogelnik and Allan Snyder 2002: Tim Berners-Lee 2003: Robert Metcalfe and Robert G. Gallager 2004: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page 2005: Claude Berrou 2006: John M. Cioffi 2007: Ronald L. Rivest 2008: David N. Payne 2009: Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach 2010: Charles Geschke and John Warnock 2011: Jack Wolf and Irwin M. Jacobs 2012: Henry Samueli 2013: Martin Cooper 2014: Arogyaswami Paulraj 2015: Peter Kirstein 2016: Bradford Parkinson 2017: Arun Netravali 2018: F. Thomson Leighton 2019: Paul Kocher and Taher Elgamal 2020: Andrea Goldsmith 2022: Siavash Alamouti 2023: Hari Balakrishnan"Creating a Safer, More Resilient Society: 2023 Marconi Prize Awarded to Hari Balakrishnan." Marconi Society. February 21, 2023. 2024: Teresa H. Meng 2025: Nick McKeown 2026: Robert Calderbank
See also Donald Davies – independently invented packet switching and modern data communication List of engineering awards NAB Marconi Radio Awards
References
External links The Marconi Foundation website Who Invented Radio? Technology's top honors, awards and prizes, including the Marconi Prize