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Nominees 2009

Industry

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

SMEs/research

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

Non-European countries

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

Lifetime achievement

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

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