- John Fritz Medal
The John Fritz Medal, referred to as the highest American award in the
engineering profession, is presented each year for scientific or industrial achievement in any field of pure or applied science. It was established in 1902 as a memorial to the great engineer whose name it bears.Recipients:
* 2005
George Tamaro
* 2004John A. Swanson
* 2003Robert S. Langer
* 2002Daniel S. Goldin
* 2001Paul C. W. Chu
* 2000John W. Fisher
* 1999George H. Heilmeier
* 1998Ivan A. Getting
* 1997Arthur E. Humphrey
* 1996George N. Hatsopoulos
* 1995Lynn S. Beedle
* 1994Hoyt C. Hotte
* 1993Gordon E. Moore
* 1992Serge Gratch
* 1991Hunter Rouse
* 1990Gordon A. Cain
* 1989Robert N. Noyce
* 1988Ralph B. Beck
* 1987Ralph Landau
* 1986Simon Ramo
* 1985Daniel C. Drucker
* 1984Kenneth A. Roe
* 1983Claude Elwood Shannon
* 1982David Packard
* 1981Ian MacGregor
* 1980T. Louis Austin, Jr.
* 1979Nathan M. Newmark
* 1978Robert G. Heitz
* 1977George R. Brown
* 1976Thomas O. Paine
* 1975Manson Benedict
* 1974H. I. Romnes
* 1973Lyman Wilber
* 1972 William Webster
* 1971Patrick E. Haggerty
* 1970Glenn B. Warren
* 1969Michael L. Haider
* 1968Igor Ivan Sikorsky
* 1967Walker L. Cisler
* 1966Warren K. Lewis
* 1965Frederick R. Kappel
* 1964Lucius D. Clay
* 1963Hugh L. Dryden
* 1962Crawford H. Greenewalt
* 1961Stephen D. Bechtel
* 1960Gwilyn A. Price
* 1959Mervin J. Kelly
* 1958John R. Suman
* 1957Ben Moreell
* 1956Philip Sporn
* 1955Harry Alonzo Winne
* 1954William Embry Wrather
* 1953Benjamin F. Fairless
* 1952Ervin George Bailey
* 1951Vannevar Bush
* 1950Walter H. Aldridge
* 1949Charles M. Allen
* 1948Theodore von Karman
* 1947Lewis Warrington Chubb
* 1946Zay Jeffries
* 1945John Lucian Savage
* 1944Charles F. Kettering
* 1943Willis Rodney Whitney
* 1942Everette Lee DeGolyer
* 1941Ralph Budd
* 1940Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (posthumous)
* 1939Frank Baldwin Jewett
* 1938Paul Dyer Merica
* 1937Arthur Newell Talbot
* 1936William Frederick Durand
* 1935Frank Julian Sprague (posthumous)
* 1934John Ripley Freeman (posthumous )
* 1933Daniel Cowan Jackling
* 1931David Watson Taylor
* 1930Ralph Modjeski
* 1929Herbert Clark Hoover
* 1928John Joseph Carty
* 1927Elmer Ambrose Sperry
* 1926Edward Dean Adams
* 1925John Frank Stevens
* 1924Ambrose Swasey
* 1923Guglielmo Marconi
* 1922Charles P. E. Schneider
* 1921 SirRobert Hadfield
* 1920Orville Wright
* 1919 Gen.George W. Goethals
* 1918J. Waldo Smith
* 1917Henry Marion Howe
* 1916Elihu Thompson
* 1915James Douglas
* 1914John Edson Sweet
* 1913 —
* 1912Robert Woolston Hunt
* 1911 SirWilliam Henry White
* 1910Alfred Nobel
* 1909Charles Talbot Porter
* 1908Thomas Alva Edison
* 1907Alexander Graham Bell
* 1906George Westinghouse
* 1905Lord Kelvin
* 1904 —
* 1903 —
* 1902John Fritz External links
* [http://www.aaes.org/communications/john_fritz_medal.asp American Association of Engineering Societies: The John Fritz Medal]
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