The Prize is also intended to promote and finance works bound
to enhance the knowledge of how communication science and
techniques can be put to the service of human good. It is
therefore granted in aknowledgment of outstanding works is
this field, but it is clearly stated that its aim is to
promote a scientific research work, that the grantee can carry
on personally or can assign to persons appointed by him.
The
Prize is granted every year until the end of the 20th century.
The grantees will receive the sum of $ 100,000 and a copy of
the symbol of the Prize, work of sculptor Otello Guarducci.
The New York Polytechnic runs the Prize, in order to promote
high level research works. A Council headed by Gioia Marconi
Braga, Marconi's daughter, manages the Prize and cares to meet
all high Marconi's ideals. Each year the Council appoints a
Consulting Committee, which has the task to select the
applications.
The Marconi International Fellowship Fund has
been created with contributions of Authorities and
Organizations of all the world, particularly Firms working in
the field of communications (the Federation shares the
expenses, having been Marconi a Work Cavalier, an italian
award). Such Authorities organize also the ceremony during
which the Prize is granted. The Marconi Fellowship is sided by
the "Young Scientist" Prize: as known Guglielmo Marconi
developed very early the intuitions of the discoveries which
would have upset the world of telecommunications, leading
those first experiments that amazed mankind. For that very
reason Prize is granted to a young scientist which can submit
evidence to possess the premises to reach important scientific
results. The choice of the grantee is entrusted each year to
an important scientific organization. The young scientist
receives a check of $ 10,000 and a locket engraved by sculptor
Andrea Spadini.
1994: the XX Marconi Award Presented to Robert E.Kahn