Millennium Technology Prize

The Millennium Technology Prize ( Millennium Technology Prize ) is an international innovation award, which is awarded by the Finnish Millennium Prize Foundation since 2004 every two years. The award is given " for the quality of life and welfare of the people greatly enhancing technological innovation". Donated and funded it is by Finnish, Finnish industry and the Finnish state. It is endowed with 1.1 million euros, of which approximately 800,000 euros for the grand prize.

Prize winners ( grand prize )

• 2004 Tim Berners -Lee for his invention of the World Wide Web
• 2006 Shuji Nakamura for his inventions of blue, green and white LEDs and blue laser diodes
• 2008 Robert Langer for his discovery and development of biomaterials and drugs, among other things, to combat cancer
• 2010 Michael Grätzel for his work on the development of dye-sensitized solar cell
• 2012 Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux operating system kernel and Shin'ya Yamanaka for his stem cell research

Other winners

• 2008 Alec John Jeffreys, Genetic fingerprinting
• 2008 Andrew J. Viterbi, Viterbi algorithm
• 2008 Emmanuel Desurvire, Randy Giles and David N. Payne, optical amplifier
• 2010 Richard Henry Friend, Organic Electronics
• 2010 Steve Furber, ARM architecture