MIT’s Robert Langer takes home top prize for engineering

Posted on 3 Feb 2015 by Jonny Williamson

Chemical engineer, Dr Robert Langer has been named 2015’s recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London today.

Announced by Lord Browne of Madingley, chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, in front of The Duke of York; The Queen will present the prize to Langer at Buckingham Palace later this year. A global £1m prize, the QEPrize celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation that has been of global…

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