6 leaders received awards as ‘America’s greatest living innovators’ from Donald Trump. Only 1 is US-born
The leaders received awards from US President Trump in two categories: the National Medals of Science and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation.
Six leaders were honored on October 8 by President Donald Trump as America's greatest living innovators, receiving either the National Medal of Science or the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Five of the recipients were foreign-born immigrants. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Michael Dell were all awarded for their significant contributions to science and technology.
Elon Musk, a South African-born co-founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, received the National Medal of Science for his engineering achievements in space exploration, intelligent systems, communications, and manufacturing. Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Google co-founder and former Alphabet president, was honored for his development of algorithms that transformed information retrieval and data processing worldwide.
Jensen Huang, a Taiwanese-born co-founder, CEO, and president of Nvidia, was recognized for advancing the graphics processing unit into a general-purpose computing architecture. Lisa Su, a Taiwanese-born CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, was awarded for her leadership in semiconductor engineering and high-performance computing. Michael Dell, an American-born founder of Dell Technologies, received the award for advancing personal and enterprise computing adoption, technical management skills, and support for future generations of American scientists and engineers.
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