Nominees and winners 2009

Industry

• Winners: Jürg Zimmermann, Brian Druker (Switzerland)
• Fiona Fairhurst (UK)
• Koen Meijer, Huib den Hartog (Netherlands)

SMEs/research

• Winner: Joseph Le Mer (France)
• John Daugman (UK)
• Bartolomej Janek (Slovakia)

Non-European countries

• Winners: Yiqing Zhou, Dianxi Ning, Shufen Wang, Deben Ding, Guofu Li, Chengqi Shan, Guangyu Liu (China)
• Shoichi Sasaki (Japan)
• Marion "Frank" Rudy (US)

Lifetime achievement

• Winner: Adolf Goetzberger (Germany)
• Raoul Parienti (France)
• Maria-Regina Kula (Germany)