An Honorary Member shall be a person who has made “distinctive contributions” to engineering, science, industry, research, public service, or other pursuits allied with and beneficial to the engineering profession.
Honorary Membership was first awarded in 1880, the founding year of the Society. The roster of Honorary Members contains the names of leaders of world renown who have been selected under carefully drawn procedures rigorously maintained by the Society over the years.
In 1962, the ASME further defined this statement as “distinguished service that contributes significantly to the goals of the engineering profession”. While this definition may sometimes imply career-long dedicated activity, that alone is not adequate for this highest level of Society Membership.
The Board of Governors may elect up to five Honorary Members each year (By-Law B3.1.10). An Exception was made in 1980 - the Centennial Year of the Society - when 38 Honorary members were elected.
| Form Of Award: |
Silver Medal, Certificate and Travel expense supplement to attend the meeting presentation. |
| Limitation(s): |
No more than five per year- |
| Administrative Responsiblility: |
Committee on Honors (COH) |
| Nomination Deadline: |
March 1 |
| Nomination Sent To: |
Committee on Honors (COH) |
| Committee Chair: |
W.W. Durgin |
| Phone Number: |
212-591-7094 |
| Email: |
mckivorf@asme.org |
| Awarded By: |
Board of Governors |
HONORARY MEMBER RECIPIENTS
| 1880 |
Horatio Allen |
1947 |
Lord Dudley Gordon |
1978 |
Burgess H, Jennings |
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Henry R. Worthington |
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Francis Hodgkinson |
1979 |
H. Norman Abramson |
| 1882 |
Daniel Kinnear Clark |
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Gen. George C. Marshall |
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James Bernard Jones |
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Rudolph J.E. Clausius |
1948 |
Carl F. Braun |
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John Erik Jonsson |
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Peter Cooper |
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Lyman J. Briggs |
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Morrough Parker O'Brien |
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Otto Hallauer |
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Oscar A. Leutwiler |
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Ronald Bromley Smith |
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Gustav Adolf Hirn |
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James W. Parker |
1980 |
Gerhard W. Becker |
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Alexander L. Holley |
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George I. Rockwood |
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Bruno A. Boley |
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Sir Edward J. Reed |
1949 |
Alex D. Bailey |
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Roland A. Budenholzer |
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Franz Reuleaux |
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Oliver V.S. Bulleid |
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Jimmy Carter |
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Henri Adolphe-Eugene Schneider |
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Samuel W. Dudley |
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Wallace Lacy Chadwick |
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C. William Siemens |
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Roy C. Muir |
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James W. Daily |
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Henri Tresca |
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Branislav Djakovic |
| 1884 |
Johann Bauschinger |
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D. Robert Yarnall |
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Robert M. Drake, Jr. |
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Sir Frederick J. Bramwell |
1950 |
Harold V. Coes |
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Charles W. Elston |
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Franz Grashof |
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Lilliam M. Gilbreth |
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Carlo Ferrari |
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Friedrich Gustav Hermann |
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Frederick Ljungstrom |
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Michael Field |
| 1886 |
Sir Benjamin Baker |
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Harry M. Pflager |
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Sir Hugh Ford |
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James Dredge |
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William R. Gould |
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Victor Dwelshauvers-Dery |
1951 |
Norris Roy Crump |
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Serge Gratch |
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Francis A. Walker |
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Robert M. Gates |
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Jost M. Haenny |
| 1889 |
Sir John Coode |
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Lewis F. Moody |
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Shen Hong |
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel |
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Latham E. Osborne |
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Sir Stanley Hooker |
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Joseph Hirsch |
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Harry A. Winne |
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Alexandre Horowitz |
| 1890 |
Charles Talbot Porter |
1952 |
John M. Lessells |
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Yu-Tung Hu |
| 1891 |
Sir Henry Bessemer |
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Stephen P. Timoshenko |
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M.M. Khan |
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Henry Léauté |
1953 |
Vice-Adm. Edward L. Cochrane |
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Kankuro Kaneshige |
| 1894 |
Benjamin Franklin Isherwood |
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William A. Hanley |
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Warner T. Koiter |
| 1897 |
George Westinghouse |
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Alexander C. Monteith |
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Sir James Lighthill |
| 1898 |
William Cawthorne Unwin |
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Shepard T. Powell |
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Alexander L. London |
| 1900 |
Gustave Canet |
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William F. Ryan |
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Donald L. Mordell |
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Sir Charles Douglas Fox |
1954 |
Sir Hugh E.C. Beaver |
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Roger N. Morse |
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John Fritz |
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Vannevar Bush |
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Frithiof I. Niordson |
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Sir WIlliam Henry White |
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Sir Vincent de Ferranti |
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Olayeni Olowu |
| 1904 |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Jacques Peters |
| 1905 |
Sir WIlliam Arrol |
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Louis Giannattasio |
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Kenneth Preiss |
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Charles Haynes Haswell |
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Richard Edgar Heartz |
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Milton C. Shaw |
| 1907 |
Andrew Carnegie |
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Percy L. Jones |
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Frank Spedding |
| 1910 |
Rear Adm. G.W. Melville |
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Henry B. Oatley |
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Arthur J. Stock |
| 1911 |
Sir J.A.F. Aspinal |
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Abbott L. Penniman, Jr. |
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Everett O. Waters |
| 1912 |
Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval |
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Philip Sporn |
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Rudolph Diesel |
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George L. Sullivan |
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Anatole Mallet |
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Charles E. Wilson |
1981 |
Samuel R. Beitler |
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Oskar von Miller |
1955 |
Jacob Ackeret |
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Phillip Eisenberg |
| 1913 |
Capt. Charles H. Manning |
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Joseph B. Armitage |
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James L. Everett, III |
| 1914 |
Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow |
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Detlev W. Bronk |
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Sydney Goldstein |
| 1915 |
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt |
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Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle |
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Sir Arnold Hall |
| 1916 |
Ambrose Swasey |
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Samuel B. Earle |
1982 |
Daniel C. Drucker |
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John Edson Sweet |
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Simes T. Hoyt |
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William Hawthorne |
| 1917 |
Maj.Gen. G.W. Goethals |
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Ernest F. Mercier |
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Kenneth D. Nichols |
| 1918 |
Charles M. Schwab |
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Carl G.A. Rosen |
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Claude Seippel |
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Orville Wright |
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Hilding V. Tornebohm |
1983 |
Karl Bammert |
| 1919 |
Charles de Freminville |
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Clyde E. Williams |
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Iain Finnie |
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Auguste C.E. Rateau |
1956 |
Charles W.E. Clark |
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Nicholas J. Hoff |
| 1920 |
Rear Adm. R.S. Griffin |
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William Francis Gibbs |
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Paul M. Naghdi |
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Robert Woolston Hunt |
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Solomon C. Hollister |
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William T. Reid |
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The Honorable Sir Charles Algernon Parsons |
1957 |
E.G. Bailey |
1984 |
Isaac R. Caraco |
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Grande Uffiiale Ing. Pio Perrone |
1958 |
John Blizard |
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Kenneth R. Daniel |
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Samuel Matthews Vauclain |
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James E. Gleason |
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J. George H. Thompson |
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Right Honorable Lord Weir |
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Ernest L. Robinson |
1985 |
Ronald L. Geer |
| 1921 |
Marshal Ferdinand Foch |
1959 |
Thomas B. Drew |
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Theodore H.H. Pian |
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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
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Adm. Ben Moreell |
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Raymond A.J. Snoeys |
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Henry Robinson Towne |
1960 |
Henry T. Heald |
1986 |
Bernard Crossland |
| 1925 |
Gen. W.W. Atterbury |
1961 |
Sanford L. Cluett |
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Allan D. Kraus |
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Herbert Clark Hoover |
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Frederick H. Rolt |
1987 |
Richard J. Coar |
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Worcester Reed Warner |
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Willis F. Thompson |
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Robert Plunkett |
| 1927 |
Henry Le Chatelier |
1962 |
Clarence B. Campbell |
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Herbert H. Richardson |
| 1928 |
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley |
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Thomas Keith Glennan |
1988 |
Stephen H. Crandall |
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Howard Coonley |
1963 |
Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt |
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Robert H. Page |
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Ira N. Hollis |
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Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder |
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Allen F. Rhodes |
| 1929 |
Masawo Kamo |
1964 |
Jacob P. Den Hartog |
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Warren M. Rohsenow |
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Vis. Ei-ichi Shibusawa |
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Hugh L. Dryden |
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Edward A. Saibel |
| 1930 |
Elihu Thomson |
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James N. Landis |
1989 |
Fred Landis |
| 1931 |
Calvin Winsor Rice |
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Glenn B. Warren |
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Hans W. Liepmann |
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Palmer C. Ricketts |
1965 |
Clarence E. Davies |
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Edward F. Obert |
| 1932 |
John Ripley Freeman |
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Hans Ernst |
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Antoni K. Oppenheim |
| 1934 |
William F. Durand |
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Luis Giorgi |
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William R. Sears |
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David Schenk Jacobus |
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William M. Keller |
1990 |
William E. Cooper |
| 1936 |
Rear Adm. H.I. Cone |
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Reginald J.S. Pigott |
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George Herrmann |
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Alex Dow |
1966 |
Orlan W. Boston |
1991 |
Simon Ostrach |
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George A. Orrok |
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Walker L. Cisler |
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Eric Reissner |
| 1937 |
Lorenzo Allievi |
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Joseph H. Keenan |
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George N. Sandor |
| 1938 |
Maj. Gen. W.H. Tschappat |
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Alf J.R. Lysholm |
1992 |
Richard M. Christensen |
| 1939 |
Edmund Bruce Ball |
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Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor |
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Ferdinand Freudenstein |
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Dexter Simpson Kimball |
1967 |
William H. Byrne |
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Richard J. Goldstein |
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Charles Thomas Main |
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Reinout P. Kroon |
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Bernard L. Koff |
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Edwin Jay Prindle |
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Carl R. Soderberg |
1993 |
Joseph M. Juran |
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Henry Hague Vaughan |
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Dana Young |
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Chang L. Tien |
| 1940 |
William Abbott |
1968 |
Crosby Field |
1994 |
T. Brooke Benjamin |
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Robert W. Angus |
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Robert B. Lea |
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Allen Latham, Jr. |
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Arthur M. Greene, Jr. |
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Rudolph E. Peterson |
1995 |
Alan J. Chapman |
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Albert Kingsbury |
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Hunter House |
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Thomas R. Kane |
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James A. Seymour |
1969 |
William C. Foster |
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Paul Leung |
| 1941 |
Leon Pratt Alford |
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Raymond D. Mindlin |
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John H. Lienhard |
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Clarence Decatur Howe |
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R. Thomas Sawyer |
1996 |
Arthur E. Bergles |
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Adm. S.M. Robinson |
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James M. Todd |
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Yuan-Cheng B. Fung |
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Aurel Stodola |
1970 |
Richard G. Folsom |
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George N. Hatsopoulos |
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Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson |
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Martin Goland |
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Stephen J. Kline |
| 1942 |
William L. Batt |
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William Prager |
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Ascher H. Shapiro |
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Willis H. Carrier |
1971 |
Robert A. Bowman |
1997 |
Leroy S. “Skip” Fletcher |
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Charles E. Ferris |
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M. Eugene Merchant |
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Werner Goldsmith |
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Jerome C. Hunsaker |
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Nathan M. Newmark |
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Salomon Levy |
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Sir Harry Ricardo |
1972 |
Walter Ramberg |
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Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. |
| 1943 |
Francis Blossom |
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George R. Rich |
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Reginald I. Vachon |
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Ralph Budd |
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Louis N. Rowley, Jr. |
1998 |
Frederick F. Ling |
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Lt. Gen. A.G.L. McNaughton |
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Carl E. Tack |
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Genichi Taguchi |
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Edward N. Trump |
1973 |
Herbert Allen |
1999 |
W. Wayne Allen |
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Roy V. Wright |
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Miklós Hetényi |
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Michael M. Carroll |
| 1944 |
Charles M. Allen |
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Lord Hinton (of Bankside) |
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John Dundurs |
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Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr. |
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Arthur M. Wahl |
2000 |
Aaron Cohen |
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Gano Dunn |
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Frank S.G. Williams |
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Douwe de Vries |
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Vice-Adm. Emory S. Land |
1974 |
George Francis Carter |
2001 |
Ernest L. Daman |
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Sir (Standen) Leonard Pearce |
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John Wistar Simpson |
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Helmut H. Korst |
| 1945 |
Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen |
1975 |
Ernst R.G. Eckert |
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Henry McDonald |
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Dugald Caleb Jackson |
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George A. Hawkins |
2002 |
Jan D. Achenbach |
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Andrey Abraham Potter |
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Eugene W. O'Brien |
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Bei Tse Chao |
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Sir William A. Stanier |
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Stewart Way |
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Amos E. Holt |
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Wen-Hao Wong |
1976 |
Samuel B. Batdorf |
2003 |
Richard Rosenberg |
| 1946 |
Alexander G. Christie |
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Ralph M. Hardgrove |
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Karl J. Springer |
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Ralph E. Flanders |
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Kenneth A. Roe |
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John A. Swanson |
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Lt. Gen. W.S. Knudsen |
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Arthur F. Underwood |
2004 |
Ray M. Bowen |
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Irving E. Moultrop |
1977 |
Ivar Giaever |
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Frank Kreith |
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Lewis K. Sillcox |
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Philip G. Hodge, Jr. |
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J. Tinsley Oden |
| 1947 |
Marquis of Aberdeen |
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Donald E. Marlowe |
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Donald N. Zwiep |
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Everett G. Ackart |
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Ralph A. Seban |
2005 |
Sia Nemat-Nasser |
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Harvey N. Davis |
1978 |
Howard W. Emmons |
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Charles O. Velzy |
| 2006 |
Alva L. Addy |
2007 |
Avram Bar-Cohen |
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John H. Sununu |
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James R. Welty |
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Richard E. DeVor |
2008 |
Robert A. Bennett |
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Ward O. Winer |
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Bobby L. Green |
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Nancy D. Fitzroy |
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