Major innovation prize awarded to Swedish mobile telephony pioneer

The American National Academy of Engineering will this year award the prestigious Draper Prize to Sweden´s Thomas Haug. The Prize is awarded persons who have developed technologies with a major positive impact on the everyday life of people. Examples of earlier award winners are Vinton G Cerf for the development of internet, the founder of world wide web Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the respective developers of the GPS-system, the optofibre technology, the LCD technology as well as several developers of medical technology and many more.Thomas Haug (Dr Sc.Eng.) was born in Norway in 1927 and is