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National Medal of Science

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In 2014, Pune-educated Stanford Professor Thomas Kailath, and Burton Richter win US National Medal of Science

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Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama.

Kailath is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s high civilian awards and is a member of major science and engineering academies in India.

He received his BE (telecom) degree from the College of Engineering, Pune before getting his SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

He received his BE (telecom) degree from the College of Engineering, Pune before getting his SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, before joining Stanford University as associate professor of Electrical Engineering in 1963.

Kailath’s research and teaching at Stanford have ranged over several fields of engineering and mathematics, with a different focus roughly every decade, according to his profile on the university website.

These included information theory, communications, linear systems, estimation and control, signal processing, semiconductor manufacturing, probability and statistics, and matrix and operator theory.

Kailath was promoted to professor in 1968, and was appointed the first holder of the Hitachi America Professorship in 1988. He assumed emeritus status in 2001, but remains active with his research and writing activities.

Kailath is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2007 for contributions to the development of powerful algorithms for communications, control, computing and signal processing.

Among his other major honors are the Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society; the IEEE Education Medal and the IEEE Signal Processing Medal; Guggenheim, Churchill and Humboldt Fellowships.

He has mentored an outstanding array of more than 100 doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. Their joint efforts have led to over 300 journal papers, several of which have received outstanding paper prizes. They have also led to a dozen patents and to several books and monographs, including the major textbooks Linear Systems and Linear Estimation.

“This is indeed a great honor for me, which I proudly share with my students and coauthors,” Kailath said. “I am also grateful for the remarkably supportive environment of the Electrical Engineering department and the University.”
Burton Richter’s career at Stanford started in 1956 as a research associate in the High Energy Physics Laboratory. He became an assistant professor in the Physics Department in 1960, and is now the Paul Pigott Professor of Physical Sciences, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He joined SLAC as an associate professor and rose to technical director before becoming the leader of the laboratory from 1984 to 1999.

Richter shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of a new heavy elementary particle, the J/psi particle, whose existence implied the existence of the charmed quark. In recent years Richter turned his attention to energy issues, and in 2010 was the author of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century.

He is a member of the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee and chaired its Fuel Cycle subcommittee from 2000 to 2013, and was a member of the first President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Review Panel for the National Climate Change Assessment. He is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Biological Sciences

• 1990 Baruj Benacerraf, Herbert W. Boyer, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Edward B. Lewis, David G. Nathan, E. Donnall Thomas
• 1991 Mary Ellen Avery, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Elvin A. Kabat, Robert W. Kates, Salvador E. Luria, Paul A. Marks, Folke K Skoog, Paul C. Zamecnik
• 1992 Maxine Singer, Howard M. Temin
• 1993 Daniel Nathans, Salome G. Waelsch
• 1994 Thomas Eisner, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1995 Alexander Rich
• 1996 Ruth Patrick
• 1997 James D. Watson, Robert A. Weinberg
• 1998 Bruce Ames, Janet Rowley
• 1999 David Baltimore, Jared Diamond, Lynn Margulis
• 2000 Nancy C. Andreasen, Peter H. Raven, Carl Woese
• 2001 Francisco J. Ayala, George F. Bass, Mario R. Capecchi, Ann Graybiel, Gene E. Likens, Victor A. McKusick, Harold Varmus
• 2002 James E. Darnell, Evelyn M. Witkin
• 2003 J. Michael Bishop, Solomon H. Snyder, Charles Yanofsky
• 2004 Norman E. Borlaug, Phillip A. Sharp, Thomas Starzl
• 2005 Anthony Fauci, Torsten N. Wiesel
• 2006 Rita R. Colwell, Nina Fedoroff, Lubert Stryer
• 2007 Robert J. Lefkowitz, Bert W. O’Malley
• 2008 Francis S. Collins, Elaine Fuchs, Craig Venter
• 2009 Susan L. Lindquist, Stanley B. Prusiner
• 2010 Ralph L. Brinster, Rudolf Jaenisch
• 2011 Lucy Shapiro, Leroy Hood, Sallie Chisholm
• 2014 May Berenbaum, Bruce Alberts

Chemistry

• 2001 Ernest R. Davidson, Gabor A. Somorjai
• 2002 John I. Brauman
• 2004 Stephen J. Lippard
• 2005 Tobin J. Marks
• 2006 Marvin H. Caruthers, Peter Dervan
• 2007 Mostafa El-Sayed
• 2008 Joanna S. Fowler, JoAnne Stubbe
• 2009 Stephen J. Benkovic, Marye Anne Fox
• 2010 Jacqueline K. Barton, Peter J. Stang
• 2011 Allen J. Bard, M. Frederick Hawthorne
• 2012 Judith P. Klinman, Jerrold Meinwald

Engineering

• 2001 Andreas Acrivos
• 2002 Leo Beranek
• 2003 John Prausnitz
• 2004 Edwin N. Lightfoot
• 2005 Jan D. Achenbach
• 2006 Robert S. Langer
• 2007 David Wineland
• 2008 Rudolf E. Kálmán
• 2009 Amnon Yariv
• 2010 Shu Chien
• 2011 John Goodenough
• 2014 Thomas Kailath

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

• 2001 Calyampudi R. Rao, Elias M. Stein
• 2002 James G. Glimm
• 2003 Carl R. de Boor
• 2004 Dennis P. Sullivan
• 2005 Bradley Efron
• 2006 Hyman Bass
• 2007 Leonard Kleinrock, Andrew J. Viterbi
• 2009 David B. Mumford
• 2010 Richard A. Tapia, Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan
• 2011 Solomon Golomb, Barry Mazur
• 2014 Alexandre Chorin, posthumous David Blackwell

Physics

• 2001 Marvin L. Cohen, Raymond Davis Jr., Charles Keeling
• 2002 Richard Garwin, W. Jason Morgan, Edward Witten
• 2003 G. Brent Dalrymple, Riccardo Giacconi
• 2004 Robert N. Clayton
• 2005 Ralph A. Alpher, Lonnie Thompson
• 2006 Daniel Kleppner
• 2007 Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Charles P. Slichter
• 2008 Berni Alder, James E. Gunn
• 2009 Yakir Aharonov, Esther M. Conwell, Warren M. Washington
• 2011 Sidney Drell, Sandra Faber, Sylvester James Gates
• 2014 Burton Richter, Sean C. Solomon

1973 John Tukey

1974 Kurt Gödel

1989 Melvin Calvin

1974 Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff

1983 William R. Hewlett

1987 Philip Abelson

1989 Arnold O. Beckman

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