IEEE Edison Medal
The IEEE Edison Medal (1904-1907: Edison Medal, 1908-1935: AIEE Edison Medal ) is a prestigious award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) for a career of meritorious progress in electrical science, engineering and art. It is the oldest and most coveted medal in this field in the United States. The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze replica and smaller golden replicas, a certificate and a dopant.
Candidates for the medal may be proposed annually to a random schedule. Decides on the award an appointed a committee for this purpose.
History
On February 11, 1904, 25 years after the first successful fabrication of an electric light bulb by Thomas Edison, was a group of Edison's friends and partners a medal in his honor out. Your determination of the medal reads: " The Edison Medal shoulderstand, falling on the centuries to come, serve as to honorable incentive to scientists, engineers, and artisans to maintain by Their works the high standard of accomplishment set by the illustrious one Whose name and feats Shall live while human intelligence Continues to inhabit the world " ( German: ". Edison medal to during the coming centuries serve as honorary afflicted incentive for scientists, engineers and artisans to obtain the high standard of their work, the set of the famous man has, whose name and work lives on as long as human intelligence the world populated. " )
Four years later took over the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ) the award of the medal and awarded them under the name AIEE Edison Medal. After the merger of the AIEE with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE ) in 1963 was the IEEE and the medal was given its present name.