# MIT150 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/MIT150 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/MIT150.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT150 > Source revision: 1356664689 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "MIT150" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "MIT150" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Award MIT150 Awarded for The most significant innovators, inventions, or ideas from MIT, MIT alumni, and other MIT-related people and organizations[1] Country United States Presented by Boston Globe First award 2011 Website MIT150 The **MIT150** is a list published by the [Boston Globe](/source/Boston_Globe), in honor of the 150th anniversary of the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute. The top 30 innovators and inventions on the list are: 1. [Tim Berners-Lee](/source/Tim_Berners-Lee), inventor of the [World Wide Web](/source/World_Wide_Web) 1. [Eric Lander](/source/Eric_Lander), team leader for sequencing one-third of the [Human Genome](/source/Human_Genome) 1. [William Shockley](/source/William_Shockley), inventor of the [solid-state](/source/Solid_state_(electronics)) [transistor](/source/Transistor) 1. [Ray Tomlinson](/source/Ray_Tomlinson), inventor of the "@" symbol use in email addresses 1. [Phillip A. Sharp](/source/Phillip_A._Sharp), founder of [Biogen Idec](/source/Biogen_Idec) 1. [Ken Olsen](/source/Ken_Olsen) and [Harlan Anderson](/source/Harlan_Anderson), founders of [Digital Equipment](/source/Digital_Equipment) Corp. 1. [Helen Greiner](/source/Helen_Greiner) and [Colin Angle](/source/Colin_Angle), founders of [iRobot](/source/IRobot) Corp. 1. [Ellen Swallow Richards](/source/Ellen_Swallow_Richards), nutrition expert, and the first woman admitted to MIT 1. [Amar Bose](/source/Amar_Bose), founder of [Bose Corporation](/source/Bose_Corporation) 1. [Ivan Getting](/source/Ivan_Getting), founder of [Aerospace Corp.](/source/Aerospace_Corp.), co-inventor of [GPS](/source/GPS) 1. [Salvador Luria](/source/Salvador_Luria), father of modern [biology](/source/Biology) 1. [Joseph Jacobson](/source/Joseph_Jacobson), co-founder of [E Ink](/source/E_Ink) 1. [Dan Bricklin](/source/Dan_Bricklin), [Bob Frankston](/source/Bob_Frankston), inventors of [VisiCalc](/source/VisiCalc) 1. [Brewster Kahle](/source/Brewster_Kahle), founder of the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) 1. [Daniel Lewin](/source/Daniel_Lewin), [F. Thomson Leighton](/source/F._Thomson_Leighton), co-founders of [Akamai](/source/Akamai_Technologies) 1. [Vannevar Bush](/source/Vannevar_Bush), science advisor to President [Franklin D. Roosevelt](/source/Franklin_D._Roosevelt), founder of [Raytheon](/source/Raytheon), father of the [National Science Foundation](/source/National_Science_Foundation) 1. [Pietro Belluschi](/source/Pietro_Belluschi), dean of the [MIT School of Architecture and Planning](/source/MIT_School_of_Architecture_and_Planning) 1. [Ron Rivest](/source/Ron_Rivest), [Adi Shamir](/source/Adi_Shamir), [Leonard Adleman](/source/Leonard_Adleman), inventors of [RSA](/source/RSA_(algorithm)) cryptography 1. [Charles Draper](/source/Charles_Stark_Draper), inventor of the first inertial guidance system 1. [Herbert Kalmus](/source/Herbert_Kalmus), [Daniel Comstock](/source/Daniel_Frost_Comstock), cofounders of [Technicolor](/source/Technicolor) 1. [John Dorrance](/source/John_Thompson_Dorrance), inventor of [Campbell Soup](/source/Campbell_Soup) 1. [David Baltimore](/source/David_Baltimore), [Nobel laureate](/source/Nobel_laureate) 1. [Robert Weinberg](/source/Robert_Weinberg_(biologist)), cofounder of the [Whitehead Institute](/source/Whitehead_Institute) 1. [William Thompson Sedgwick](/source/William_Thompson_Sedgwick), founder of the [Harvard School of Public Health](/source/Harvard_School_of_Public_Health) 1. [Alfred P. Sloan](/source/Alfred_P._Sloan), CEO of [General Motors](/source/General_Motors) 1. [William Hewlett](/source/William_Redington_Hewlett), cofounder of [Hewlett Packard](/source/Hewlett_Packard) 1. [Marc Raibert](/source/Marc_Raibert), founder of [Boston Dynamics](/source/Boston_Dynamics) and creator of [BigDog](/source/BigDog) 1. [Hugh Herr](/source/Hugh_Herr), founder of iWalk and head of the [Biomechatronics](/source/Biomechatronics) research group at the [MIT Media Lab](/source/MIT_Media_Lab) 1. [Hoyt C. Hottel](/source/Hoyt_C._Hottel), [oil industry](/source/Oil_industry) pioneer 1. [Robert Swanson](/source/Robert_A._Swanson), cofounder of [Genentech](/source/Genentech) ## See also - [List of awards for contributions to culture](/source/List_of_awards_for_contributions_to_culture) - [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-MIT150_1-0)** ["The MIT 150: 150 Ideas, Inventions, and Innovators that Helped Shape Our World"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110519002514/http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full). [The Boston Globe](/source/The_Boston_Globe). May 15, 2011. Archived from [the original](http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full) on May 19, 2011. ## External links - [MIT150](https://web.archive.org/web/20110514001555/http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/) special from the [Boston Globe](/source/Boston_Globe) This science awards article is a stub. 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