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 award presentation. |
| Limitation(s): |
No more than five Honorary Members per year. |
| Administrative Responsibility: |
Committee on Honors (COH) |
| Nomination Deadline: |
March 1 |
| Nomination Sent To: |
Committee on Honors |
| Committee Chair: |
K.A. Thole |
| Phone Number: |
212-591-7094 |
| Email: |
mckivorf@asme.org |
| Awarded By: |
Board of Governors |
HONORARY MEMBER RECIPIENTS
| 1880 |
Horatio Allen |
1950 |
Harold V. Coes |
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Frithiof I. Niordson |
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Henry R. Worthington |
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Lilliam M. Gilbreth |
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Olayemi Olowu |
| 1882 |
Daniel Kinnear Clark |
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Frederick Ljungstrom |
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Jacques Peters |
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Rudolph J.E. Clausius |
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Harry M. Pflager |
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Kenneth Preiss |
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Peter Cooper |
1951 |
Norris Roy Crump |
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Milton C. Shaw |
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Otto Hallauer |
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Robert M. Gates |
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Frank Spedding |
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Gustav Adolf Hirn |
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Lewis F. Moody |
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Arthur J. Stock |
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Alexander L. Holley |
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Latham E. Osborne |
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Everett O. Waters |
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Sir Edward J. Reed |
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Harry A. Winne |
1981 |
Samuel R. Beitler |
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Franz Reuleaux |
1952 |
John M. Lessells |
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Phillip Eisenberg |
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Henri Adolphe-Eugene Schneider |
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Stephen P. Timoshenko |
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James L. Everett, III |
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C. William Siemens |
1953 |
Vice-Adm. Edward L. Cochrane |
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Sydney Goldstein |
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Henri Tresca |
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William A. Handley |
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Sir Arnold Hall |
| 1884 |
Johann Bauschinger |
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Alexander C. Monteith |
1982 |
Daniel C. Drucker |
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Sir Frederick J. Bramwell |
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Shepard T. Powell |
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William Hawthorne |
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Franz Grashof |
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William F. Ryan |
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Kenneth D. Nichols |
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Friedrich Gustav Hermann |
1954 |
Sir Hugh E.C. Beaver |
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Claude Seippel |
| 1886 |
Sir Benjamin Baker |
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Vannevar Bush |
1983 |
Karl Bammert |
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James Dredge |
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Sir Vincent de Ferranti |
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Iain Finnie |
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Victor Dwelshauvers-Dery |
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Nicholas J. Hoff |
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Francis A. Walker |
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Louis Giannattasio |
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Paul M. Naghdi |
| 1889 |
Sir John Coode |
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Richard Edgar Heartz |
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William T. Reid |
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel |
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Percy L. Jones |
1984 |
Isaac R. Caraco |
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Joseph Hirsch |
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Henry B. Oatley |
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Kenneth R. Daniel |
| 1890 |
Charles Talbot Porter |
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Abbott L. Penniman, Jr. |
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J. George H. Thompson |
| 1891 |
Sir Henry Bessemer |
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Philip Sporn |
1985 |
Ronald L. Geer |
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Henry Léauté |
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George L. Sullivan |
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Theodore H.H. Pian |
| 1894 |
Benjamin Franklin Isherwood |
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Charles E. Wilson |
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Raymond A.J. Snoeys |
| 1897 |
George Westinghouse |
1955 |
Jacob Ackeret |
1986 |
Bernard Crossland |
| 1898 |
William Cawthorne Unwin |
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Joseph B. Armitage |
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Allan D. Kraus |
| 1900 |
Gustave Canet |
|
Detlev W. Bronk |
1987 |
Richard J. Coar |
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Sir Charles Douglas Fox |
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Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle |
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Robert Plunkett |
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John Fritz |
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Samuel B. Earle |
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Herbert H. Richardson |
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Sir WIlliam Henry White |
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Simes T. Hoyt |
1988 |
Stephen H. Crandall |
| 1904 |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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Ernest F. Mercier |
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Robert H. Page |
| 1905 |
Sir WIlliam Arrol |
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Carl G.A. Rosen |
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Allen F. Rhodes |
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Charles Haynes Haswell |
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Hilding V. Tornebohm |
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Warren M. Rohsenow |
| 1907 |
Andrew Carnegie |
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Clyde E. Williams |
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Edward A. Saibel |
| 1910 |
Rear Adm. G.W. Melville |
1956 |
Charles W.E. Clark |
1989 |
Fred Landis |
| 1911 |
Sir J.A.F. Aspinal |
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Willian Francis Gibbs |
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Hans W. Liepmann |
| 1912 |
Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval |
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Solomon C. Hollister |
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Edward F. Obert |
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Rudolph Diesel |
1957 |
E.G. Bailey |
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Antoni K. Oppenheim |
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Anatole Mallet |
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John Blizard |
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William R. Sears |
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Oskar von Miller |
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James E. Gleason |
1990 |
William E. Cooper |
| 1913 |
Capt. Charles H. Manning |
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Ernest L. Robinson |
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George Herrmann |
| 1914 |
Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow |
1959 |
Thomas B. Drew |
1991 |
Simon Ostrach |
| 1915 |
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt |
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Adm. Ben Moreell |
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Eric Reissner |
| 1916 |
Ambrose Swasey |
1960 |
Henry T. Heald |
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George N. Sandor |
|
John Edson Sweet |
1961 |
Sanford L. Cluett |
1992 |
Richard M. Christensen |
| 1917 |
Maj.Gen. G.W. Goethals |
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Frederick H. Rolt |
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Ferdinand Freudenstein |
| 1918 |
Charles M. Schwab |
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Willis F. Thompson |
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Richard J. Goldstein |
| |
Orville Wright |
1962 |
Clarence B. Campbell |
|
Bernard L. Koff |
| 1919 |
Charles de Freminville |
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Thomas Keith Glennan |
1993 |
Joseph M. Juran |
| |
Auguste C.E. Rateau |
1963 |
Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt |
|
Chang L. Tien |
| 1920 |
Rear Adm. R.S. Griffin |
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Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder |
1994 |
T. Brooke Benjamin |
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Robert Woolston Hunt |
1964 |
Jacob P. Den Hartog |
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Allen Latham, Jr. |
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The Honorable Sir Charles Algernon Parsons |
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Hugh L. Dryden |
1995 |
Alan J. Chapman |
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Grande Uffiiale Ing. Pio Perrone |
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James N. Landis |
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Thomas R. Kane |
| |
Samuel Matthews Vauclain |
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Glenn B. Warren |
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Paul Leung |
| |
Right Honorable Lord Weir |
1965 |
Clarence E. Davies |
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John H. Lienhard |
| 1921 |
Marshal Ferdinand Foch |
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Hans Ernst |
1996 |
Arthur E. Bergles |
| |
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
|
Luis Giorgi |
|
Yuan-Cheng B. Fung |
| |
Henry Robinson Towne |
|
William M. Keller |
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George N. Hatsopoulos |
| 1925 |
Gen. W.W. Atterbury |
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Reginald J.S. Pigott |
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Stephen J. Kline |
| |
Herbert Clark Hoover |
1966 |
Orlan W. Boston |
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Ascher H. Shapiro |
| |
Worcester Reed Warner |
|
Walker L. Cisler |
1997 |
Leroy S. “Skip” Fletcher |
| 1927 |
Henry Le Chatelier |
|
Joseph H. Keenan |
|
Werner Goldsmith |
| 1928 |
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley |
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Alf J.R. Lysholm |
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Salomon Levy |
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Howard Coonley |
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Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor |
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Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. |
| |
Ira N. Hollis |
1967 |
William H. Byrne |
|
Reginald I. Vachon |
| 1929 |
Masawo Kamo |
|
Reinout P. Kroon |
1998 |
Frederick F. Ling |
|
Vis. Ei-ichi Shibusawa |
|
Carl R. Soberberg |
|
Genichi Taguchi |
| 1930 |
Elihu Thomson |
|
Dana Young |
1999 |
W. Wayne Allen |
| 1931 |
Calvin Winsor Rice |
1968 |
Crosby Field |
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Michael M. Carroll |
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Palmer C. Ricketts |
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Robert B. Lea |
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| 1932 |
John Ripley Freeman |
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Rudolph E. Peterson |
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John Dundurs |
| 1934 |
William F. Durand |
|
Hunter House |
2000 |
Aaron Cohen |
|
David Schenk Jacobus |
1969 |
William C. Foster |
|
Douwe de Vries |
| 1936 |
Rear Adm. H.I. Cone |
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Raymond D. Mindlin |
2001 |
Ernest L. Daman |
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Alex Dow |
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R. Thomas Sawyer |
|
Helmut H. Korst |
|
George A. Orrok |
|
James M. Todd |
|
Henry McDonald |
| 1937 |
Lorenzo Allievi |
1970 |
Richard G. Folsom |
2002 |
Jan D. Achenbach |
| 1938 |
Maj. Gen. W.H. Tschappat |
|
Martin Goland |
|
Bei Tse Chao |
| 1939 |
Edmund Bruce Ball |
|
William Prager |
|
Amos E. Holt |
|
Dexter Simpson Kimball |
1971 |
Robert A. Bowman |
2003 |
Richard Rosenberg |
|
Charles Thomas Main |
|
M. Eugene Merchant |
|
Karl J. Springer |
|
Edwin Jay Prindle |
|
Nathan M. Newmark |
|
John A. Swanson |
|
Henry Hague Vaughan |
1972 |
Walter Ramberg |
2004 |
Ray M. Bowen |
| 1940 |
William Abbott |
|
George R. Rich |
|
Frank Kreith |
|
Robert W. Angus |
|
Louis N. Rowley, Jr. |
|
J. Tinsley Oden |
|
Arthur M. Greene, Jr. |
|
Carl E. Tack |
|
Donald N. Zwiep |
|
Albert Kingsbury |
1973 |
Herbert Allen |
2005 |
Sia Nemat-Nasser |
|
James A. Seymour |
|
Miklós Hetényi |
|
John R. Sununu |
| 1941 |
Leon Pratt Alford |
|
Lord Hinton (of Bankside) |
|
Charles O. Velzy |
|
Clarence Decatur Howe |
|
Arthur M. Wahl |
2006 |
Alva L. Addy |
|
Adm. S.M. Robinson |
|
Frank S.G. Williams |
|
James R. Welty |
|
Aurel Stodola |
1974 |
George Francis Carter |
|
Ward O. Winer |
|
Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson |
|
John Wistar Simpson |
2007 |
Avram Bar-Cohen |
| 1942 |
William L. Batt |
1975 |
Ernst R.G. Eckert |
|
Richard E. DeVor |
|
Willis H. Carrier |
|
George A. Hawkins |
|
Bobby L. Green |
|
Charles E. Ferris |
|
Eugene W. O'Brien |
2008 |
Robert A. Bennett |
|
Jerome C. Hunsaker |
|
Stewart Way |
|
Nancy D. Fitzroy |
|
Sir Harry Ricardo |
1976 |
Samuel B. Batdorf |
2009 |
David L. Belden |
| 1943 |
Francis Blossom |
|
Ralph M. Hardgrove |
|
Winfred M. Phillips |
|
Ralph Budd |
|
Kenneth A. Roe |
|
Charles M. Vest |
|
Lt. Gen. A.G.L. McNaughton |
|
Arthur F. Underwood |
|
William A. Weiblen |
|
Edward N. Trump |
1977 |
Ivar Giaever |
2010 |
William J. Adams |
|
Roy V. Wright |
|
Philip G. Hodge, Jr. |
|
Harry Armen |
| 1944 |
Charles M. Allen |
|
Donald E. Marlowe |
|
Keith B. Thayer |
|
Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr. |
|
Ralph A. Seban |
|
David N. Wormley |
|
Gano Dunn |
1978 |
Howard W. Emmons |
|
Sam Y. Zamrik |
|
Vice-Adm. Emory S. Land |
|
Burgess H. Jennings |
2011 |
Adrian Bejan |
|
Sir (Standen) Leonard Pearce |
1979 |
H. Norman Abramson |
|
Joseph A. Falcon |
| 1945 |
Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen |
1980 |
Gerald W. Becker |
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Nathan H. Hurt |
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Dugald Caleb Jackson |
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Bruno A. Boley |
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Junuthula N. Reddy |
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Andrey Abraham Potter |
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Roland A. Budenholzer |
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Paul J. Torpey |
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Sir William A. Stanier |
|
Jimmy Carter |
2012 |
Yildiz Bayazitoglu |
|
Wen-Hao Wong |
|
Wallace Lacy Chadwick |
|
Zděnek P. Bažant |
| 1946 |
Alexander G. Christie |
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James W. Daily |
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Vijay K. Dhir |
|
Ralph E. Flanders |
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Branislav Djakovic |
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Yogesh Jaluria |
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Lt. Gen. W.S. Knudsen |
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Robert M. Drake, Jr. |
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Irving E. Moultrop |
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Charles W. Elston |
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Lewis K. Sillcox |
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Carlo Ferrari |
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| 1947 |
Marquis of Aberdeen |
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Michael Field |
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Everett G. Ackart |
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Sir Hugh Ford |
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Harvey N. Davis |
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William R. Gould |
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Lord Dudley Gordon |
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Serge Gratch |
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Francis Hodgkinson |
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Jost M. Haenny |
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Gen. George C. Marshall |
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Shen Hong |
|
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| 1948 |
Carl F. Braun |
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Sir Stanley Hooker |
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Lyman J. Briggs |
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Alexander Horowitz |
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Oscar A. Leutwiler |
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Yu-Tung Hu |
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James W. Parker |
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M.M. Khan |
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George I. Rockwood |
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Kankuro Kaneshige |
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| 1949 |
Alex D. Bailey |
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Warner T. Koiter |
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Oliver V.S. Bulleid |
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Sir James Lighthill |
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Samuel W. Duddley |
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Alexander L. London |
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Roy C. Muir |
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Donald L. Mordell |
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D. Robert Yarnall |
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Roger N. Morse |
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