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Lifetime
Creative Achievement
Award Recipients
2009: Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has been
described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal.
Forbes calls him “the ultimate thinking machine.”
Inc. Magazine
calls him the “rightful
heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS includes him as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America.”
Ray is the
principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition,
the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first
music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first
commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Ray’s many honors, he is the
recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the
world's largest for innovation; the National Medal of Technology, the nation's
highest honor in technology; and in 2002, he was
inducted into the US Patent Office's National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
2008: Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan, the creator of
Mind Map techniques, has
worked with: corporate entities and
businesses all over the world; academics; Olympic athletes; children of all ages; governments; and
high profile individuals, in teaching them how to maximise the use of their brain power. A prolific
author, he has written more than 90 books, with
sales in over 150 countries; his books have been translated into at least 33 languages. Tony Buzan is a
familiar celebrity on Radio and TV, both in the UK and globally, with a long list of credits to his
name. He has also
found time in his busy schedule to create the World Memory Championships and is a prize-winning poet and
athlete. Tony is living proof that his theories really work. He is a passionate advocate of healthy
eating combined with mind and body exercise to achieve the most out of life, and is often to be seen
expertly sculling in the early morning mists on the River Thames.
2006: Allen H. Bar
Dr. Allen H. Bar
receives this recognition for his almost 40 years as a mentor to generations of physicians --
particularly surgeons. Dr. Allen H. Bar has refined, disseminated, and changed the way surgical
rotations are conducted and has infused creativity and innovation into medical education. Dr. Bar
puts the med students into a creative problem solving method where they begin their diagnostic
pathway by questioning the patient, brainstorming possible reasons for symptoms, using this data
(including lab results) to identify the real problem, engaging in Socratic discourse with Dr. Bar
and their fellow students to catalogue possible diagnoses, and over time verify their diagnosis and
plan of treatment. Through this approach, Dr. Bar promotes creative problem solving among his
residents, who then carry that attitude and learning into their future careers.
2003: Willem J. Kolff
Dr.
Willem J. Kolff was a distinguished professor of medicine
and surgery at the University of Utah. He used his skills
as an entrepreneur, researcher, inventor, and writer to
become known as the "Father of Artificial Organs."
Born in Holland, he developed the first practical artificial
kidney machine during the German occupation of the Netherlands,
with materials scrounged from a local factory and carefully
concealed from the Nazis. The artificial kidney dialysis
machine Kolff invented has been perfected through a series
of improvements so that there are an estimated 55,000 people
in the U.S. with end-stage renal disease that are being
kept alive by this invention or a subsequent modification
of it. During his life, he has received more than 100 awards
and published more than 600 articles.
2002:
Morris I. Stein
Dr.
Stein is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at New York University.
Known as Moe to his colleagues and students, Dr. Stein is
one of the founding fathers of creativity research. He has
written numerous articles and given presentations all over
the world. He has authored and edited over a dozen books.
His two-volume work, Stimulating Creativity has become a
canon in the literature of the field.
2000:
William Edward "Ned" Herrmann
Ned
Herrmann (1922-1999) was known as a brain and creativity
pioneer. In 1970, Herrmann was named Manager of Management
Education for General Electric where he began his groundbreaking
study of creative human development and learning which resulted
in the formation of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
(HBDI). He has authored several books outlining his findings
and received numerous awards. A prolific artist, he painted
and sculpted over 600 works of art and also performed at
Carnegie Hall in New York.
1999:
John Glenn
John
Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962
and then 36 years later as a payload specialist on Discovery.
His careers in between were in private industry, most notably
as an executive with the Royal Crown Cola company, and as
US Senator from Ohio.
1998:
Raymond V. Damadian, M.D.
Dr.
Damadian not only invented the MRI that has revolutionized
the field of diagnostic medicine, but founded a company
in 1978, FONAR Corporation, to bring his invention to reality.
The MRI is not being manufactured for a worldwide market.
Dr. Damadian attended the Julliard School of Music for 8
years where he studied the violin. He holds a M.D. from
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He has
been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and
received the National Medal of Technology from President
Reagan in 1988.
1997: The Carter Center
Former
President Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn Carter founded The Carter
Center in 1982 to resolve conflict, promote peace and human
rights, and fight disease, hunger, and poverty. The nonprofit
Center has more than two dozen programs that impact the
lives of people in some 65 countries. By working hand-in-hand
with individuals, governments, and organizations with similar
goals, The Carter Center is committed to helping those in
need to improve their own lives.
1996:
Earl Bakken
Earl
Bakken is the inventor of the first wearable heart pacemaker.
He was Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Medtronic, Inc.,
the major driving force behind the worldwide use of the
implantable pacemaker for human heart stimulation. He has
been involved in the creation of a hospital that combines
allopathic and complementary medicine.
1995:
Jack S. Kilby
Jack
Kilby is the inventor of the microchip which laid the foundation
for the entire field of modern microelectronics, the basis
of sophisticated high-speed computers and other "miracles"
of today's information age. He went on to pioneer military,
industrial, and commercial applications of microchip technology.
1994: E. Paul Torrance
Dr.
Torrance is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University
of Georgia and one of the pioneers in education and creativity
research, studying the identification, development and utilization
of creative talent. He has written many books and articles
in the field of creativity. He has developed a battery of
tests to measure mental abilities in creative thinking.
His tests have been translated into a dozen languages and
administered around the world.
1994: William R. Nash
Dr. Nash envisioned the American Creativity Association and put together its Charter Board of Directors. Dr. Nash is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, after having served 36 years at Texas A&M University. At Texas A&M University, he established a Ph.D. program on "Studies of Intelligence, Creativity, and Giftedness" and Chaired and Co-Chaired over 50 Ph.D. graduates. He has served as President of the National Association for Gifted Children and established a summer program for gifted and talented teenagers at Texas A&M. He has been awarded Texas A&M's Former Students Association's Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Continuing Education, the College of Education and Human Development's Advisory Council's Extraordinary Service Award, and the President's Award from the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented for outstanding service to education in the state of Texas.
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