11 winners announced of Franklin Institute awards

William Richard Peltier, University of Toronto, Bower Award for achievement in science, which comes with a $250,000 prize, for his study of the oceans and atmosphere and how they affect climate.

William H. Gates III, Microsoft Corp. and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bower Award for business leadership, for his innovations in software and philanthropy.

JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Benjamin Franklin medal in chemistry, for her work with cancer treatments and eco-friendly plastics.

Shafrira Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, medal in computer and cognitive science, for her study of cryptography that has led to advancements in Internet security.

Gerhard M. Sessler, Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany, and James E. West, Johns Hopkins University, medal in electrical engineering, for inventing the electret microphone, the tiny device now widely used in phones and hearing aids.

Peter C. Nowell, University of Pennsylvania, medal in life science, for the discovery of a genetic cause of leukemia and research that led to successful therapy.

D. Brian Spalding, Concentration Heat & Momentum Ltd. in London, medal in mechanical engineering, for his computer modeling of the flow of fluids.

J. Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany; David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo.; and Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria, medal in physics, for their advances in quantum computing.

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