Snapshot
2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering
Location:
Philadelphia, Pensylvania USA
Date:
April 23, 2009
Event:
Benjamin Franklin Awards Ceremony
Laureate:
Richard Robbins
Category:
Engineering
Past recepients:
The list of Franklin Institute Awards Laureates is a roster of science and technology's most important and influential names over the last two centuries, men and women who have deepened human knowledge at both the basic and the applied levels. This list includes Albert Einstein, Rudolph Diesel, Marie and Pierre Curie, Thomas Edison, Jane Goodall, Orville Wright, Stephen Hawking, and Jacques Cousteau, just to name a few.