Dr. Victor Lawrence, a Bell Laboratories inventor and communications trailblazer, will be honored with the Science and Technology Medal — the highest honor at the 2023 Edison Patent Awards.

The Nov. 15 event, sponsored by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, also will give major awards to Bob Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health (the Chairman’s Award), and state Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-Hillsborough) of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (the Educator of the Year Award).

The event will be held at the Liberty Science Center.