Washington Award
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The Washington Award is an American engineering award.
Since 1916 it has been given annually for "accomplishments which promote the happiness, comfort, and well-being of humanity". It is awarded jointly by the following engineering societies: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Nuclear Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, and Western Society of Engineers (which administers the award).
Honorees[]
Source: Western Society of Engineers
- Herbert C. Hoover, 1919
- Robert W. Hunt, 1922
- Arthur N. Talbot, 1924
- Jonas Waldo Smith, 1925
- , 1926
- Orville Wright, 1927
- Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 1928
- Bion Joseph Arnold, 1929
- Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, 1930
- Ralph Modjeski, 1931
- William David Coolidge, 1932
- Ambrose Swasey, 1935
- Charles Franklin Kettering, 1936
- Frederick Gardner Cottrell, 1937
- Frank Baldwin Jewett, 1938
- Daniel Webster Mead, 1939
- Daniel Cowan Jackling, 1940
- Ralph Budd, 1941
- William Lamont Abbott, 1942
- Andrey Abraham Potter, 1943
- Henry Ford, 1944
- Arthur Holly Compton, 1945
- Vannevar Bush, 1946
- Karl Taylor Compton, 1947
- Ralph Edward Flanders, 1948
- John Lucian Savage, 1949
- , 1950
- Edwin Howard Armstrong, 1951
- Henry Townley Heald, 1952
- Gustav Egloff, 1953
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth, 1954
- Charles Erwin Wilson, 1955
- , 1956
- Walker Lee Cisler, 1957
- Ben Moreell, 1958
- James R. Killian, Jr., 1959
- , 1960
- , 1961
- Alexander C. Monteith, 1962
- Philip Sporn, 1963
- John Slezak, 1964
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 1965
- Augustus Braun Kinzel, 1966
- Frederick Lawson Hovde, 1967
- , 1968
- Nathan M. Newmark, 1969
- H.G. Rickover, 1970
- William L. Everitt, 1971
- Thomas Otten Paine, 1972
- John A. Volpe, 1973
- John D. deButts, 1974
- David Packard, 1975
- Ralph B. Peck, 1976
- , 1977
- Dixy Lee Ray, 1978
- Marvin Camras, 1979
- Neil Armstrong, 1980
- , 1981
- Manson Benedict, 1982
- John Bardeen, 1983
- Robert W. Galvin, 1984
- Stephen D. Bechtel, 1985
- Mark Shepherd Jr., 1986
- Grace Murray Hopper, 1987
- James McDonald, 1988
- , 1989
- John H. Sununu, 1990
- Frank Borman, 1991
- Leon M. Lederman, 1992
- William States Lee, 1993
- , 1994
- George W. Housner, 1995
- Wilson Greatbatch, 1996
- Frank Kreith, 1997
- , 1998
- Jack S. Kilby, 1999
- Donna Lee Shirley, 2000
- Dan Bricklin, 2001
- Bob Frankston, 2001
- , 2002
- Eugene Cernan, 2003
- Nick Holonyak, 2004
- Robert S. Langer, 2005
- Henry Petroski, 2006
- Michael J. Birck, 2007
- Dean Kamen, 2008
- Clyde N. Baker, Jr., 2009
- Alvy Ray Smith, 2010
- Martin C. Jischke, 2011[1]
- Martin Cooper, 2012
- Kristina M. Johnson, 2013
- Bill Nye, 2014[2]
- Bernard Amadei, 2015
- Aprille Joy Ericsson, 2016
- Chuck Hull, 2017
- Ivan Sutherland, 2018
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Categories:
- Engineering awards
- Awards established in 1916
- American science and technology awards