National Medal of Technology recipients

The list National Medal of Technology recipients includes Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Grace Hopper and Raymond Vahan Damadian. The list consists of 144 members and 1 sublist.

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Steve Jobs

American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)

Overview: Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1955

Date of death: 5 October 2011

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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American psychedelic drug advocates 72T

Time 100 250T

Disney executives 88T
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Bill Gates

American business magnate

Overview: William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Centibillionaires 16T

Inventors from Washington (state) 5T

21st-century American philanthropists 363T
3.

Steve Wozniak

Co-founder of Apple Inc.

Overview: Stephen Gary Wozniak (born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, he co-founded Apple ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Computer Programmer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Apple Fellows 10T

People who were expelled from school 32T

People with traumatic brain injuries 101T
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Robert Noyce

Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel

Overview: Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," was an American physicist who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968 ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1927

Date of death: 3 June 1990

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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MIT Department of Physics alumni 211T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T

20th-century American physicists 853T
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Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

Overview: Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark ...

Date of birth: 9 December 1906

Date of death: 1 January 1992

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Female

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WAVES personnel 48T

Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States) 231T

20th-century American women scientists 967T
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Walter Lincoln Hawkins

American chemist

Overview: Walter Lincoln Hawkins (March 21, 1911 – August 20, 1992) was an American chemist and engineer widely regarded as a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where ...

Date of birth: 21 March 1911

Date of death: 20 August 1992

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.) alumni 73T

20th-century American chemists 610T

African-American engineers 76T
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Armand V. Feigenbaum

American quality control expert

Overview: Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1920 – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman. He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1920

Date of death: 13 November 2014

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni 261T

2014 deaths 9,515T

Union College (New York) alumni 464T
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Raymond Vahan Damadian

American scientist and inventor

Overview: Raymond Vahan Damadian (March 16, 1936 – August 5, 2022) was an American physician, medical practitioner, and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine.

Date of birth: 16 March 1936

Date of death: 5 July 2022

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni 651T

American Christian Young Earth creationists 36T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T
9.

Denton Cooley

American heart surgeon

Overview: Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American heart and cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the ...

Date of birth: 22 August 1920

Date of death: 18 November 2016

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

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American cardiac surgeons 44T

2016 deaths 9,448T

American men's basketball players 12,045T
10.

Ralph H. Baer

German-American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)

Overview: Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer.

Date of birth: 8 March 1922

Date of death: 6 December 2014

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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The American Library (Yinka Shonibare, 2018) people 220T

Ritchie Boys 97T

Jewish video game developers 16T
11.

Jack Kilby

American electrical engineer (1923–2005)

Overview: Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at ...

Date of birth: 8 November 1923

Date of death: 20 June 2005

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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Grainger College of Engineering alumni 250T

Physicists from Missouri 65T

Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri 35T
12.

Dean Kamen

American businessman

Overview: Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1951

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 108T

ASME Medal recipients 72T

Henry Laurence Gantt Medal recipients 53T
13.

Clarence Johnson

American, Designer

Overview: Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer. He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1910

Date of death: 21 December 1990

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Male

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Flint Central High School alumni 22T

University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni 311T

Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal 38T
14.

Bob Kahn

American computer scientist

Overview: Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fu ...

Date of birth: 23 December 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 80T

Center for a New American Security 16T

21st-century American scientists 433T
15.

Ray Dolby

American electrical engineer

Overview: Ray Milton Dolby (January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1933

Date of death: 12 September 2013

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Scientific and Technical Academy Award of Merit 35T

Businesspeople from San Francisco, California 221T

Dolby Laboratories 6T
16.

Vint Cerf

American computer scientist

Overview: Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS (born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has r ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni 88T

21st-century American inventors 222T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T
17.

Gordon Moore

American businessman (1929–2023)

Overview: Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He was also the original proponent of Moore's ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1929

Date of death: 24 March 2023

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Partner: Betty I. Whittaker (Married)

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People from Pescadero, California 9T

21st-century philanthropists 248T

Intel x86 microprocessors 34T
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Yvonne Brill

American rocket scientist

Overview: Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924 – March 27, 2013) was a Canadian-American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that ...

Date of birth: 30 December 1924

Date of death: 27 March 2013

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Female

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20th-century women engineers 195T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T

American women engineers 202T
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Richard H. Frenkiel

American engineer

Overview: Richard H. Frenkiel (born March 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American engineer, known for his significant role in the early development of cellular telephone networks.

Date of birth: 4 March 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Tufts University School of Engineering alumni 38T

Scientists from New York City 419T

Draper Prize winners 46T
20.

Frances Arnold

Chemical engineer

Overview: Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the Cal ...

Date of birth: 25 July 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology 98T

Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 80T

21st-century American inventors 222T