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Hoover Medal

American engineering prize

The Hoover Medal is an American engineering prize.

It has been given since 1930 for "outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity". The prize is given jointly by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which administers it. It is named for Herbert Hoover, the first recipient, who was an engineer by profession.

Past recipients

Source:ASME

1930 Herbert Hoover
1936 Ambrose Swasey
1938 John Frank Stevens
1940 Gano Dunn
1941 D. Robert Yarnall
1942 Gerard Swope
1944 Ralph E. Flanders
1945 William Henry Harrison
1946 Vannevar Bush
1948 Malcolm Pirnie
1949 Frank B. Jewett
1950 Karl T. Compton
1951 William L. Batt
1952 Clarence D. Howe
1954 Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
1955 Charles F. Kettering
1956 Herbert Hoover Jr.
1957 Scott Turner
1958 Raymond A. Wheeler
1959 Henry T. Heald
1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1961 Mervin J. Kelly
1962 Walker Lee Cisler
1963 James Rhyne Killian Jr.
1964 John Alexander McCone
1966 Lillian Moller Gilbreth
1967 Lucius D. Clay
1968 Sir Harold Hartley
1969 Edgar F. Kaiser
1970 John Erik Jonsson
1971 Luis A. Ferré
1972 Frederick R. Kappel
1973 William Joseph Hedley
1974 David Packard
1975 James Boyd
1976 James B. Fisk
1977 Peter C. Goldmark
1978 Donald C. Burnham
1979 Charles M. Brinckerhoff
1980 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
1981 Arnold O. Beckman
1982 Michel T. Halbouty
1983 Joseph J. Jacobs
1984 Kenneth A. Roe
1985 Robert C. West
1986 Lawrence P. Grayson
1987 Martin Goland
1988 William R. Gianelli
1989 John J. McKetta
1990 Joseph M. Rodgers
1991 Haldor F. Topsoe
1992 Roland W. Schmitt
1993 Mario G. Salvadori
1994 William J. Carroll
1995 Dean Kamen
1996 M. Hasan Nouri
1997 Otto J. Helweg
1998 James Earl Carter Jr.
2001 Richard H. Stanley
2002 Charles H. Thornton
2003 Barry K. Thacker
2005 Sudabeh Shoja
2007 Bernard Amadei
2008 APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
2012 N R Narayana Murthy
2013 Steve Wozniak
2015 Robert S. Langer
2016 Leonard Harris, Australia
2017 John Staehlin
2018 David C. Baldwin
2019 Marc Edwards
2020 William S. Hammack
2021 Cato T. Laurencin
2022 Ratan N. Tata

References

"Hoover Medal". ASME.
(September 1, 2020). "William Hammack Named 2020 Hoover Medalist". [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
(July 26, 2021). "Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Selected as 2021 Hoover Medalist". [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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