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Hall of Fame inductees are awarded the Minnesota Science and Technology Hall of Fame Medallion. These medallions have tremendous historic, artistic, and symbolic value. Made of bronze, each has been
struck from the original die of an exquisitely carved medal created in 1908 for the St. Paul Institute, precursor to the Science Museum of Minnesota. It was designed by world-renowned and Minnesota-bornsculptor Paul Manship, whose statue of Prometheus graces New YorkCity’s Rockefeller Center Plaza.
One hundred years after Manship carved his final touches, this medallion was selected as a fitting symbol to recognize the exemplary accomplishments of inductees to the Minnesota Science and Technology Hall of Fame, and to celebrate the creativity that underlies allpursuits in the sciences.
Bill George took a homegrown Minnesota company, Medtronic, and shepherded its rise through a remarkable decade of growth. During the 1990s, strategic mergers provided not only for global expansion of the company, but also a corresponding boom of innovation in medical devices, services and therapies that served to benefit people more than 1.5 million patients per year suffering from cardiac disease and other serious illness.
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