IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

About the Medal

The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal was established in 1976 by the IEEE Board of Directors in commemoration of the centennial of the telephone's invention and to provide recognition for outstanding contributions to telecommunications.

The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 was a major event in electrotechnology. It was instrumental in stimulating the broad telecommunications industry that has dramatically improved life throughout the world. As an individual, Bell himself exemplified the contributions that scientists and engineers have made to the betterment of mankind.

List of Recipients

1976, Amos E. Joel, Jr., William Keister, and Raymond W. Ketchledge
1977, Eberhardt Rechtin
1978, M. Robert Aaron, John S. Mayo, and Eric E. Sumner
1979, A. Christian Jacobaeus
1980, Richard R. Hough
1981, David Slepian
1982, Harold A. Rosen
1983, Stephen O. Rice
1984, Andrew J. Viterbi
1985, Charles K. Kao
1986, Bernard Widrow
1987, Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel, and William C. Jakes, Jr.
1988, Robert M. Metcalfe
1989, Gerald R. Ash and Billy B. Oliver
1990, Paul Baran
1991, C. Chapin Cutler, John O. Limb, and Arun N. Netravali
1992, James L. Massey
1993, Donald C. Cox
1994, Hiroshi Inose
1995, Irwin M. Jacobs
1996, Tadahiro Sekimoto
1997, Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
1998, Richard E. Blahut
1999, David G. Messerschmitt
2000, Vladimir A. Kotelnikov
2001, No award
2002, Tsuneo Nakahara
2003, Joachim Hagenauer
2004, No award
2005, Jim K. Omura
2006, John Wozencraft
2007, Norman Abramson
2008, Gerard J. Foschini
2009, Robert McEliece
2010, John Cioffi
2011, Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
2012, Leonard Kleinrock
2013, Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach
2014, Dariush Divsalar
2015, Frank Kelly
2016, Roberto Padovani
2017, H. Vincent Poor
2018, Nambirajan Seshadri
2019, Teresa H. Meng
2020, Rajiv Laroia
2021, Nick McKeown
2022, Panganamala R. Kumar
2023, Ingeborg J. Hochmair and Erwin Hochmair
2024, Jennifer Rexford