Leon O. Chua - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Doctor Honoris Causa from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (1983)
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tokushima, Japan (1984)
• Honorary Doctorate from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (1992)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (1994)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1995)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (1996)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Romania (1997)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Catania, Italy (2000)
• IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award (1967)
• IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award (1972, 1985, 1989)
• IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1973), for the paper "Memristor: The Missing Circuit Element" in IEEE TRANSACTIONS on Circuit Theory, September 1971
• IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2000)
• IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (2005), For seminal contributions to the foundation of nonlinear circuit theory, and for inventing Chua's Circuit and Cellular Networks, each spawning a new research area.
• M. E. Van Valkenburg Award (1995 and 1998)
• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vitold Belevitch Award (2007), For seminal contributions to nonlinear circuit theory, the first mathematically proven physical implementation of Chaos (Chua circuit), the local activity principle as the root of complexity, the cellular neural/nonlinear network principle and basic theory, and the qualitative theory of complexity in 1D cellular automata.
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship