Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards

1. 2026

   Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

   Kavli Prize — Nanoscience

2. 2024

   Sara Seager

   Kavli Prize — Astrophysics

3. 2023

   Moungi G. Bawendi

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

4. 2023

   James G. Fujimoto

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

5. 2023

   Eric A. Swanson

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

6. 2023

   Peter W. Shor

   Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

7. 2022

   George Lusztig

   Wolf Prize — Mathematics

8. 2022

   Robert Metcalfe

   Turing Award

9. 2022

   Richard O. Hynes

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

10. 2021

    Robert A. Weinberg

    Japan Prize — Medical Science, Medicinal Science

11. 2020

    Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

    Wolf Prize — Physics

12. 2020

    Robert G. Gallager

    Japan Prize — Electronics, Information, and Communication

13. 2019

    Stephen L. Buchwald

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

14. 2019

    Sallie W. Chisholm

    Crafoord Prize — Biosciences

15. 2019 (special)

    Daniel Z. Freedman

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

16. 2019

    Angelika Amon

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

17. 2018

    Edward S. Boyden

    Canada Gairdner International Award

18. 2018

    Susan Solomon

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

19. 2016

    Tim Berners-Lee

    Turing Award

20. 2016

    Rainer Weiss

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

21. 2016

    Rainer Weiss

    Kavli Prize — Astrophysics

22. 2016 (special)

    Rainer Weiss

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

23. 2016

    Edward S. Boyden

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

24. 2014

    Michael Stonebraker

    Turing Award

25. 2014

    George Lusztig

    Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

26. 2014

    Robert Samuel Langer

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

27. 2014

    Alan Guth

    Kavli Prize — Astrophysics

28. 2014

    Robert S. Langer

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

29. 2013

    Michael Artin

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

30. 2013

    Robert S. Langer

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

31. 2013

    Robert A. Weinberg

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

32. 2013

    Eric S. Lander

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

33. 2013

    Edward S. Boyden

    The Brain Prize

34. 2012

    Silvio Micali

    Turing Award

35. 2012

    Shafi Goldwasser

    Turing Award

36. 2012

    Jane Luu

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

37. 2012

    Jane Luu

    Kavli Prize — Astrophysics · MIT Lincoln Laboratory

38. 2012

    Alan Guth

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

39. 2008

    Barbara Liskov

    Turing Award

40. 2008

    Robert S. Langer

    Millennium Technology Prize

41. 2005

    Daniel Kleppner

    Wolf Prize — Physics

42. 2005

    Richard R. Schrock

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

43. 2004

    Frank Wilczek

    Nobel Prize — Physics

44. 2004

    Tim Berners-Lee

    Millennium Technology Prize

45. 2004

    Isadore Singer

    Abel Prize

46. 2002

    Ron Rivest

    Turing Award

47. 2002

    H. Robert Horvitz

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

48. 2002

    Tim Berners-Lee

    Japan Prize — Computing and Computational Science and Engineering · Laboratory for Computer Science

49. 2002

    Eric S. Lander

    Canada Gairdner International Award

50. 2001

    Wolfgang Ketterle

    Nobel Prize — Physics

51. 1999

    H. Robert Horvitz

    Canada Gairdner International Award

52. 1997

    Richard O. Hynes

    Canada Gairdner International Award

53. 1996

    Robert S. Langer

    Canada Gairdner International Award

54. 1995

    Mario J. Molina

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

55. 1994

    Clifford G. Shull

    Nobel Prize — Physics

56. 1993

    Phillip A. Sharp

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

57. 1991

    Edward Norton Lorenz

    Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

58. 1990

    Fernando J. Corbató

    Turing Award

59. 1990

    Henry W. Kendall

    Nobel Prize — Physics

60. 1990

    Jerome I. Friedman

    Nobel Prize — Physics

61. 1990

    Marvin Minsky

    Japan Prize — Technology of Integration- Design, Production and Control Technologies

62. 1988

    Phillip A. Sharp

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

63. 1987

    Bruno B. Rossi

    Wolf Prize — Physics

64. 1987

    Susumu Tonegawa

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

65. 1987

    Susumu Tonegawa

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

66. 1987

    Morris Cohen

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

67. 1986

    Phillip A. Sharp

    Canada Gairdner International Award

68. 1985

    Claude Elwood Shannon

    Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

69. 1983/1984

    John S. Waugh

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

70. 1983

    Susumu Tonegawa

    Canada Gairdner International Award

71. 1983

    Edward Norton Lorenz

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

72. 1981

    Victor Weisskopf

    Wolf Prize — Physics

73. 1980

    Har Gobind Khorana

    Canada Gairdner International Award

74. 1978

    Daniel G. Quillen

    Fields Medal

75. 1976

    Samuel Chao Chung Ting

    Nobel Prize — Physics

76. 1975

    David Baltimore

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

77. 1974

    David Baltimore

    Canada Gairdner International Award

78. 1969

    Marvin Minsky

    Turing Award

79. 1969

    Salvador E. Luria

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

80. 1964

    Charles Hard Townes

    Nobel Prize — Physics

81. 1956

    Victor Weisskopf

    Max Planck Medal

82. 1956

    Francis O. Schmitt

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

83. 1936

    Jesse Douglas

    Fields Medal