ASME Medal
ASME Medal, established in 1920, is the highest award that the Society can bestow and is to recognize “eminently distinguished engineering achievement.” Only one ASME Medal may be awarded annually. Although some individuals have been honored by both the ASME Medal and Honorary Membership, each award has been made on the basis of different accomplishments.
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| Form of Award: | $15,000, gold medal, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance |
| Limitation(s): | None |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Committee on Honors |
| Nomination Deadline: | March 1 |
| Nomination Send To: | Leila Persaud |
| Phone Number: | 212-591-7071 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Board of Governors |
ASME Medal Recipients
| 1921 | Hjalmar G. Carlson | 1954 | E. Burnley Powell | 1988 | Eric Reissner |
| 1922 | Frederick A. Halsey | 1955 | Granville M. Read | 1989 | William R. Sears |
| 1923 | John R. Freeman | 1956 | Harry F. Vickers | 1990 | Harley A. Wilhelm |
| 1926 | R. A. Millikan | 1957 | L.M.K. Boelter | 1992 | Daniel C. Drucker |
| 1927 | Wilfred Lewis | 1958 | Wilbur H. Armacost | 1993 | Richard H. Gallagher |
| 1928 | Julian Kennedy | 1959 | Martin Frisch | 1996 | Robert C. Dean, Jr. |
| 1930 | W. L. R. Emmet | 1960 | C. Richard Soderberg | 1997 | Bernard Budiansky |
| 1931 | Albert Kinsbury | 1962 | Philip Sporn | 1998 | Frank Kreith |
| 1933 | Ambrose Swasey | 1963 | Igor I. Sikorsky | 1999 | H. Norman Abramson |
| 1934 | Willis H. Carrier | 1964 | Alan Howard | 2000 | Arthur E. Bergles |
| 1935 | Charles T. Main | 1965 | Johannes M. Burgers | 2001 | Warren M. Rohsenow |
| 1936 | Edward Bausch | 1967 | Mayo D. Hersey | 2002 | Leroy S. "Skip" Fletcher |
| 1937 | Edward P. Bullard | 1968 | Samuel C. Collins | 2003 | Norman R. Augustine |
| 1938 | Stephen J. Pigott | 1969 | Lloyd H. Donnell | 2004 | Bradford W. Parkinson |
| 1939 | James E. Gleason | 1970 | Robert Rowe Gilruth | 2005 | Robert E. Uhrig |
| 1940 | Charles F. Kettering | 1971 | Horace Smart Beattie | 2006 | Richard J. Goldstein |
| 1941 | Theodore von Karman | 1972 | Waloddi Weibull | 2007 | Dean L. Kamen |
| 1942 | Ervin G. Bailey | 1973 | Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. | 2008 | Frank E. Talke |
| 1943 | Lewis K. Sillcox | 1974 | Nicholas J. Hoff | 2009 | Nam Pyo Suh |
| 1944 | Edward G. Budd | 1975 | Maxime A. Faget | 2010 | John Abele |
| 1945 | William F. Durand | 1976 | Raymond D. Mindlin | 2011 | Clayton D. Mote, Jr. |
| 1946 | Morris E. Leeds | 1977 | Robert W. Mann | 2012 | Jan D. Achenbach |
| 1947 | Paul W. Kiefer | 1979 | Jacob P. Den Hartog | 2013 | Sia Nemat-Nasser |
| 1948 | Frederick G. Keys | 1981 | Robert S. Hahn | 2014 | Van C. Mow |
| 1949 | Fred L. Dornbrook | 1983 | Jack N. Binns, Sr. | 2015 | James R. Rice |
| 1950 | Harvey C. Knowles | 1984 | Aaron Cohen | 2016 | J.N. Reddy |
| 1951 | Glenn B. Warren | 1985 | Milton C. Shaw | 2017 | Zdenek P. Bažant |
| 1952 | Nevin E. Funk | 1986 | Orlan W. Boston | 2018 | Thomas J.R. Hughes |
| 1953 | Crosby Field | 1987 | Philip G. Hodge, Jr. | 2019 | Reginald I. Vachon |
| 2020 | Subra Suresh | ||||
| 2021 | Pol D. Spanos | ||||
| 2022 | Katepalli R. Sreenivasan |