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