Marconi Prize


The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications. The prize is awarded by the Marconi Foundation and it includes a $100,000 and a work of sculpture.
Occasionally, the Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed on legendary late-career individuals, recognizing their transformative contributions and remarkable impacts to the field of communications and to the development of the careers of students, colleagues and peers, throughout their lifetimes. So far, the recipients include Claude E. Shannon, William O. Baker , Gordon E. Moore, Amos E. Joel Jr., Robert W. Galvin, and Thomas Kailath.

Criteria

In addition to significant technical contributions and inventions in the field of communications, the following factors are also taken into consideration:
The Marconi Prize winners are also named as Marconi Fellows. The foundation and the prize are named after the honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio communications. Recipients of the Marconi Prize are also expected to pursue further creative work to advance the understanding and development of communications technology for the benefit of mankind.

List of Marconi Prize winners

Past winners of the Marconi Prize include Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for the development of web search company Google, Tim Berners-Lee for his leadership and innovations in the World Wide Web, Nobel Laureate Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for their work in security - the Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The first award was given in 1975.
1975 - 1996
1997–present