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Winners 2010
| Industry | SMEs/research |
Non-European countries |
Lifetime achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Markendorf (Switzerland) and Raimund Loser (Germany) |
Jürgen Pfitzer and Helmut Nägele (Germany) |
Sanjai Kohli and Steven Chen (USA) and Ben Wiens and Danny Epp (Canada) |
Wolfgang Krätschmer (Germany) |
Winners 2009
| Industry | SMEs/research |
Non-European countries |
Lifetime achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jürg Zimmermann, Brian Druker (Switzerland) | Joseph Le Mer (France) | Yiqing Zhou, Dianxi Ning, Shufen Wang, Deben Ding, Guofu Li, Chengqi Shan, Guangyu Liu (China) | Adolf Goetzberger (Germany) |
Winners 2008
| Industry | SMEs/research |
Non-European countries |
Lifetime achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norbert Enning, Ulrich Klages, Heinrich Timm, Gundolf Kreis, Alois Feldschmid, Christian Dornberg, Karl Reiter (Germany) | Douglas Anderson, Robert Henderson, Roger Lucas (UK) | Philip S. Green (USA) | Erik De Clercq (Belgium) |
Winners 2007
| Industry | SMEs/research |
Non-European countries |
Lifetime achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Franz Lärmer and Andrea Urban (Germany)
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Catia Bastioli, Vittorio Bellotti, Luciano Del Giudice and Roberto Lombi (Italy) |
Joseph Vacca (USA)
|
Marc Feldmann (United Kingdom)
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Winners 2006
| Industry | Small and medium- sized enterprises |
Universities and research institutions | New EU member states | Non- European inventions |
Lifetime achieve-ment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Zbigniew Janowicz and Cornelius Hollenberg (Germany)
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Stephen P. A. Fodor, Michael C. Pirrung, J. Leighton Read and Lubert Stryer (Netherlands/USA)
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Peter Grünberg (Germany) |
John Starrett, Joanne Bronson, John Martin, Muzammil Mansuri and David Tortolani (Czech Republic)
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Larry Gold and Craig Tuerk (USA)
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Federico Faggin (Italy)
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