Achievements, Awards
Jenkins was awarded the prestigious Elliott Cresson Gold Medal for scientific achievement in 1897 and the Scott Medal in 1913 by the Franklin Institute & Science Museum-Philadelphia.
He was the founder and first president of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (now includes television, SMPTE).
Jenkins wrote several books including Vision By Radio, Radio Photographs, Radio Photograms and The Boyhood of an Inventor, as well as many articles that focused on his inventions, which were published in a variety of national magazines.
He received an honorary degree from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, at which he attended.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, best known for the annual Emmy Awards, remembers the contributions of Jenkins to the television industry by naming one of the academy’s most prestigious awards after him. The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award is provided as a special engineering honor to an individual whose contributions over a long period of time have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.
Charles Francis Jenkins died at age 66 in Washington, D.C. He is interred in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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