2024 MILLENNIUM TECHNOLOGY PRIZE
Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga, the winner of the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize, was awarded at a ceremony held at Dipoli in Espoo on 30 October 2024.
The more than 400 invited guests included leading figures from academia, business, government, and diplomacy, as well as promising young researchers. Alexander Stubb, President of the Republic of Finland and patron of the Prize, addressed the award ceremony via video.
Watch the recording of the Award Ceremony on Yle Areena.
Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga wins the Prize for his innovation IGBT
Professor Baliga’s innovation Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) has enabled dramatic reduction in worldwide electrical energy and petrol consumption. Since its development in the 1980s, the IGBT has been the most important semiconductor device for making electrical energy use and petrol
consumption more efficient and less polluting during the last 40 years.
The winner of the Millennium Technology Prize is selected through a multi-stage process
Our video series will take you behind the scenes to discover how the Millennium Technology Prize nominations are evaluated and how the winner is selected.
Winners 2004–2022
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Revolutionizing global electrification
Bantval Jayant Baliga
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Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC)
Martin Green
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Next Generation DNA Sequencing
Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman
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Enabling smart technology
Tuomo Suntola
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Pioneering directed evolution
Frances Arnold
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Increased data storage density
Stuart Parkin
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Open source operating system
Linus Torvalds
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Ethical stem cells research
Shinya Yamanaka
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Dye-sensitised solar cells
Grand Prize: Michael Grätzel
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Controlled drug release
Winner: Robert Langer
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Blue and white LEDs
Shuji Nakamura
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World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
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