The Welker Award was established in 1976 by Siemens AG in honor of Heinrich Welker, the pioneer in the field of III-V compound semiconductors. The award is now supported by Osram GmbH and given away for outstanding research in the area of III-V compound semiconductors. The list of the recipients includes three Nobel Laureates.
1976 Nick Holonyak, Jr | 1978 Cyril Hilsum | 1980 Hisayoshi Yanai |
1981 Gerald L. Pearson | 1982 Herbert Kroemer | 1984 Izuo Hayashi |
1985 Heinz Beneking | 1986 A.Y. Cho | 1987 I. Alferov |
1988 Jerry M. Woodall | 1989 Don W. Shaw | 1990 Greg Stillman |
1991 Lester F. Eastman | 1992 Harry C. Gatos | 1993 James Turner |
1994 Federico Capasso | 1995 Isamu Akasaki | 1996 Ben G. Streetman |
1997 M. George Craford | 1998 Takashi Mimura | 1999 Claude Weisbuch |
2000 James S. Harris | 2001 Karl Hess | 2002 Hiroyuki Sakaki |
2003 Klaus Ploog | 2004 James J. Coleman | 2005 Hans Melchior |
2006 Marc Ilegems | 2007 Kenichi Iga | 2008 Gunter Weimann |
2009 Daniel Dapkus | 2010 Pallab Bhattacharya | 2011 Yasuhiko Arakawa |
2012 Umesh K. Mishra | 2013 Tom Foxon | 2014 Gerald Bastard |
2015 Dieter Bimberg | 2016 Joe C. Campbell | 2017 Chennupati Jagadish |
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