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	Categories: Prizes Lemelson-MIT Prize The Lemelson-MIT Prize, endowed in 1994 by Jerome Lemelson, and administered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is awarded to inventors from the United States for outstanding achievement. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest invention prize. List of winners 2004 Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Edith Flanigen (Lifetime Achievement Award) Saul Griffith (Student Prize) N/A (Invention Apprentice) 2003 Leroy Hood (Lemelson-MIT Prize) William Murphy, Jr (Lifetime Achievement Award) James McLurkin (Student Prize) N/A (Invention Apprentice) 2002 Dean Kamen (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Ruth R. Benerito (Lifetime Achievement Award) Andrew Heafitz (Student Prize) Kavita Shukla (Invention Apprentice) 2001 Raymond Kurzweil (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Raymond Damadian (Lifetime Achievement Award) Brian Hubert (Student Prize) Jordan Sand (Invention Apprentice) 2000 Thomas Fogarty (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Al Gross (Lifetime Achievement Award) Amy Smith (Student Prize) Charles Johnson (Invention Apprentice) Michael Lim , Jalal Khan , and Thomas Murphy received a one-time student team prize 1999 Carver Mead (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Stephanie Kwolek (Lifetime Achievement Award) Daniel DiLorenzo (Student Prize) Krysta Morlan (Invention Apprentice) 1998 Robert Langer (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Jacob Rabinow (Lifetime Achievement Award) Akhil Madhani (Student Prize) 1997 Douglas Engelbart (Lemelson-MIT Prize) Gertrude Elion (Lifetime Achievement Award) Nathan Kane (Student Prize) 1996 Stanley Cohen (Co-recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize) Herbert Boyer (Co-recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize) Wilson Greatbatch (Lifetime Achievement Award) David Levy (Student Prize) 1995 William Bolander (Lemelson-MIT Prize) William Hewlett (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award) David Packard (Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award) Thomas Massie (Student Prize) See also List of prizes Prizes named after people External links List of winners Categories: Prizes

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