Announcement of the first winner of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 18.03.2013
Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee, Marc Andreessen are the joint winners of the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. They have been awarded the prize for the ground-breaking work, starting in the 1970s, which led to the internet and worldwide web. The internet and worldwide web initiated a communications revolution which has changed the world. Find out more in Winners, in the film above and in QEPrize News.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a global prize recognising and celebrating outstanding advances in engineering that have changed the world.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a new global engineering prize that will reward and celebrate an individual (or up to three individuals) responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.
The first winner of the £1million prize will be selected by a distinguished and eminent panel of judges from across the world. The prize will be presented by HM the Queen in the summer of 2013.
During the search for a winner, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will discover and celebrate stories of engineering success, raise the international public profile of engineering and inspire new generations of engineers to take up the challenges of the future.
Nominations are now closed. Judging for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is now underway.
The first winner of the £1million prize will be selected by a distinguished and eminent panel of judges from across the world. The prize will be presented by HM the Queen in the summer of 2013.
During the search for a winner, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will discover and celebrate stories of engineering success, raise the international public profile of engineering and inspire new generations of engineers to take up the challenges of the future.
Nominations are now closed. Judging for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is now underway.
Our vision
Engineering is fundamental. It tackles the big global issues; it designs our homes and creates our water, energy and communications systems; it sustains our economies.
It transports, transforms, informs and protects. From fashion to fusion, there is no part of our lives it does not touch.
From the creation of new materials to make the clothes of the future to the development of clean, green sources of power – engineering underpins almost every detail of modern life.
This is the real story of twenty-first century engineering. This is what the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering celebrates.
The new global £1M prize will recognise world-changing advances in engineering that have made a difference to humanity.
As we search for the winner, we will discover and celebrate the untold stories of engineering success and the people behind them. And we will inspire a new generation of engineers to take up the challenges of the future.
We have already started our international search. The first winner will be announced in spring 2013.
Internet and Web pioneers win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
18.03.2013
Five engineers who created the Internet and the World Wide Web have together won the inaugural £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for their innovations, which have revolutionised the way we communicate and enabled the development of whole new industries.
Today a third of the world’s population use the Internet and it is estimated to carry around 330 Petabytes of data per year, enough to transfer every character ever written in every book ever published 20 times over.
The winners are Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Louis Pouzin for their contributions to the protocols that make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee who created the World Wide Web and Marc Andreessen who wrote the Mosaic browser.
The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal at the Royal Academy of Engineering on 18 March 2013. The winners will come to London in June for the formal presentation of the prize by Her Majesty The Queen.
QEPrize announcement date – Monday 18th March
30.01.2013
The winner of the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will be announced on Monday 18th March 2013. The announcement, at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, will be attended by HRH The Princess Royal.
Nominations for the prize closed in September 2012 and we are currently in the middle of an extensive judging process which will culminate in a final meeting in March. We are delighted that our distinguished panel of judges have been highly impressed with the quality of nominations.
We would like to offer our thanks to everyone who has been involved and we look forward to the announcement.
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Trophy Prize Winner Announced
05.12.2012
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering today announced the winner of its competition to design the trophy for the international award. Following an overwhelming response from young people across the UK, 17 year-old Jennifer Leggett from Sevenoaks in Kent was named the winner at a special event at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday evening where she was presented with a GBP5000 prize.
Her design was selected from a shortlist by a prestigious judging panel that included Science Museum director and Chair of judges, Ian Blatchford; architect Dame Zaha Hadid; Director of the Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota Design Museum director, Deyan Sudjic; and Engineer, Yewande Akinola.
Jennifer is one of ten young designers, all aged between 16 and 22, who were selected as finalists for the prize. She is currently studying for her A-Levels and says her tree-like trophy design is meant to symbolise the growth of engineering and represents the way in which all areas of engineering are interlinked.
After receiving the award, Jennifer said “It’s amazing to have won this competition. It’s been incredible to see how all the shortlisted designs each managed to show the connection between engineering and art whilst all being so different.”
Chairman of the QE Prize Trustees, Lord Browne of Madingley said, “I am delighted that so many young people were inspired by this unique challenge. The winning design captures the essential relationship between engineering and the natural world and is a fitting symbol for the Queen Elizabeth Prize”.
Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum and former deputy director of the V&A, said “We set a challenge for young people to come up with an iconic trophy design that best embodies the wonder of modern engineering and reflects the merging worlds of science, art, design and engineering. Jennifer has shown real imagination and talent - all the judges were enormously impressed with her design.”
Internet and Web pioneers win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Press Release
Five engineers who created the Internet and the World Wide Web have together won the inaugural £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for their innovations, which have revolutionised the way we communicate and enabled the development of whole new industries. Today a third of the world’s population use the Internet and it is estimated to carry around 330 Petabytes of data per year, enough to transfer every character ever written in every book ever published 20 times over.
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