2002 Winners

Stephen Fodor, the founder of Affymetrix, for the development of the gene chip. (Category: Nanotechnology, folded into "No Boundaries" in 2003.)

James Gosling, currently with Sun Microsystems, for his work on the development of the Java programming language (Category: Computing)

Leroy Hood, currently of the Institute for Systems Biology, for his work on Human Genome Mapping. (Category: Bioscience.)

Irwin Jacobs, the chairman of Qualcomm, for the commercialization of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) used in third-generation wireless devices. (Category: Telecommunications.)

Shuji Nakamura, currently a professor at the University of California - Santa Barbara, for the development of the blue-violet laser. (Category: No Boundaries.)

Rinaldo Rinolfi, currently with Fiat Research, for the commercialization of the common-rail manifold, now used throughout Europe to create non-polluting, relatively quite diesel passenger car engines. (Category: Energy and the Environment.)