Maurer is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering ( 1979 ) and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame ( 1993 ) , and a fellow of the American Ceramic Society , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , and American Physical Society , and has received numerous honors including the American Institute of Physics ' 1978 Prize for Industrial Physics , the 1978 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award , the Swedish Academy of Engineering 's 1979 L.M. Ericsson International Prize for Telecommunications , an honorary LL.D . Degree from the University of Arkansas in 1980 , the Industrial Research Institute 's 1986 Achievement Award , the 1987 John Tyndall Award from IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and Optical Society of America , the 1989 Naval Research Laboratory Citation , the American Physics Society 's 1989 International Prize for New Materials , the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize , the 2000 National Medal of Technology , and the 2007 NEC C&C Prize
C&C Prize
C&C Prize
Robert D. Maurer