Melville Medal

The Melville Medal is the highest ASME honor for the best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The paper may have more than one author, but one of the authors shall be an ASME corporate member (Fellow, Member or Associate Member). The paper shall be specifically recommended for the medal by a review committee or qualified individual.  

The Melville Medal may be awarded for a paper that has been selected for some other best paper award in the Society. Thus, papers selected for special awards (Blackall, Prime Movers, Gas Turbine or Rail Transportation) or for best paper awards of professional Divisions, Sections or other ASME bodies may be considered for the Melville Medal if specifically recommended by the committee responsible for the award.

First awarded in 1927, the Melville Medal is by the bequest in 1914 of Admiral George W. Melville, Honorary Member and Eighteenth President of the Society.

Form of Award:

$2000, Bronze Medal, Certificate and Travel expense supplement to attend the award presentation.

Limitation(s): One author must be a Corporate Member of ASME
Administrative Responsibility: General Awards Committee (GAC)
Nomination Deadline: March 1
Nomination Sent To: General Awards Committee
Committee Chair: G.A. Anderkay
Phone Number: 212-591-7094
Email: mckivorf@asme.org
Awarded By: Committee on Honors (COH)

 

MELVILLE MEDAL RECIPIENTS

1927 Leon P. Alford 1980 Ravi Chandran Peter N. Szucs
1929 Joseph W. Roe John C. Chen David W. Crall
1930 Herman Diederichs Fred W. Staub 2001 Robert E. Kielb
William Pomeroy 1981 Kyung-Suk Kim Josef Panovsky
1931 Arthur Grunert Rodney J. Clifton 2003 Brent F. Beacher
1932 Alexey Stepanoff 1982 Van C. Mow Fredric F. Ehrich
1933 William Caldwell Steve C. Kuei Zoltan S. Spakovszky
1935 Oscar R. Wikander W. Michael Lai Manuel Martinez-Sanchez
1936 H. A. S. Howarth Cecil G. Armstrong Hyoun-Woo Shin
1937 Alfred J. Buchi 1983 Albert M. C. Chan Seung J. Song
1938 Alphonse Lipetz Sanjoy Banerjee Albert F. Storace
1939 Lester Goldsmith 1984 Michael F. Blair David C. Wisler
1940 Carl A. W. Brandt 1985 Lung-Wen Tsai 2004 Peng Zhang
1941 Roger V. Terry Alexander P. Morgan Yonggang Huang
1942 Kenneth Salisbury 1986 Robert W. Bjorge Huajian Gao
1944 Ernest Robinson Peter Griffith Keh-Chih Hwang
1945 William J. King 1987 Dennis L. Siebers 2006 Raj M. Manglik
1946 Troels Warming Robert J. Moffat Juntao Zhang
1947 Raymond Martinelli Richard G. Schwind 2009 James Armor
1948 Reginald Gillmor 1988 Theodore L. Bergman Paul Cantin
1950 Samuel J. Loring Frank P. Incropera David Christensen
1951 Clayton Barnard Raymond Viskanta Manuj Dhingra
1952 Neil P. Bailey 1989 David C. Wisler David Gutz
1953 Jefferson Falkner Randall C. Bauer Yedidia Neumeier
1954 Edmund Sylvester Theodore H. Okiishi J.V.R. Prasad
1955 Robert T. Knapp 1990 Cheng Dong Peter N. Szucs
1958 Thomas P. Goodman Richard Skalak Aspi R. Wadia
1959 Stephen J. Kline Kuo-Li Paul Sung
1960 William G. Steltz G.W. Schmid-Schoenbein
1961 Otto Erich Balje Shu Chien
1962 T. P. Goodman 1991 Akira Sakurai
1963 J. S. Ausman Masahiro Shiotsu
1964 J. K. Jakobsen Koichi Hata
1965 W. A. Van Der Sluys 1992 Arunava Majumdar
1967 Bernard Roth Bharat Bhushan
1968 Yian-Nian Chen 1993 Stephen C. Cowin
1969 Leon R. Glicksman Ali M. Sadegh
1970 J William Holl G. M. Luo
A. L. Kornhauser 1994 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
1971 Thomas Slot Shu Qian Liu
1972

H. W. O'Connor

 1995 Flaura K. Winston
A. S. Weinstein Lawrence L. Thibault
1974 V. H. Arakeri Edward J. Macarak
Allan J. Acosta 1996 Yaqi Huang
1975 David M. Sanborn David S. Rumschitzki
A. V. Turchina Shu Chien
Ward O. Winer Sheldon Weinbaum
1976 Bernard J. Hamrock 1997 Michael D. Buschmann
Duncan Dowson Alan J. Grodzinsky
1977 Eugene F. Fitcher 1998 David E. Halstead
Kenneth H. Hunt David C. Wisler
1978 D.E. Negrelli Theodore H. Okiishi
J.R. Lloyd Gregory J. Walker
J.L. Novotny Howard P. Hodson
1979 Thomas J.R. Hughes Hyoun-Woo Shin
W.K. Liu 1999 Aspi R. Wadia

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