Awards Honor Creators of Dialysis and GPS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Dr. Willem Kolff, a Dutch-born doctor who made the first kidney dialysis machine in the 1940s, and Ivan Getting and Bradford Parkinson, the co-inventors of the global positioning system, won the top U.S. engineering awards. The two $500,000 prizes, awarded by the National Academy of Engineering, are considered the field’s equivalent of the Nobel prizes, which do not have an engineering category. Kolff won the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize. Getting and Parkinson won the Charles Stark Draper Prize.
