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 a $750 travel allowance |
| Limitation(s): | One author must be a Corporate Member of ASME |
| Administrative Responsiblility: | General Awards Committee (GAC) |
| Nomination Deadline: | March 1 |
| Email: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Melville Medal Recipients
| 1927 | Leon P. Alford | 1960 | William G. Steltz | 1989 | David C. Wisler Randall C. Bauer Theodore H. Okiishi |
| 1929 | Joseph W. Roe | 1961 | Otto Erich Balje | 1990 | Cheng Dong Richard Skalak Kuo-Li Paul Sung G.W. Schmid-Schoenbein Shu Chien |
| 1930 | Herman Diederichs William Pomeroy |
1962 | T. P. Goodman | 1991 | Akira Sakurai Masahiro Shiotsu Koichi Hata |
| 1931 | Arthur Grunert | 1963 | J. S. Ausman | 1992 | Arunava Majumdar Bharat Bhushan |
| 1932 | Alexey Stepanoff | 1964 | J. K. Jakobsen | 1993 | Stephen C. Cowin Ali M. Sadegh G. M. Luo |
| 1933 | William Caldwell | 1965 | W. A. Van Der Sluys | 1994 | Yuan-Cheng B. Fung Shu Qian Liu |
| 1935 | Oscar R. Wikander | 1967 | Bernard Roth | 1995 | Flaura K. Winston Lawrence L. Thibault Edward J. Macarak |
| 1936 | H. A. S. Howarth | 1968 | Yian-Nian Chen | 1996 | Yaqi Huang David S. Rumschitzki Shu Chien Sheldon Weinbaum |
| 1937 | Alfred J. Buchi | 1969 | Leon R. Glicksman | 1997 | Michael D. Buschmann Alan J. Grodzinsky |
| 1938 | Alphonse Lipetz | 1970 | J William Holl A. L. Kornhauser |
1998 | David E. Halstead David C. Wisler Theodore H. Okiishi Gregory J. Walker Howard P. Hodson Hyoun-Woo Shin |
| 1939 | Lester Goldsmith | 1971 | Thomas Slot | 1999 | Aspi R. Wadia Peter N. Szucs David W. Crall |
| 1940 | Carl A. W. Brandt | 1972 | H. W. O'Connor A. S. Weinstei |
2001 | Robert E. Kielb Josef Panovsky |
| 1941 | Roger V. Terry | 1974 | V. H. Arakeri Allan J. Acosta |
2003 | Brent F. Beacher Fredric F. Ehrich Zoltan S. Spakovszky Manuel Martinez-Sanchez Hyoun-Woo Shin Seung J. Song Albert F. Storace David C. Wisler |
| 1942 | Kenneth Salisbury | 1975 | David M. Sanborn A. V. Turchina Ward O. Winer |
2004 | Peng Zhang Yonggang Huang Huajian Gao Keh-Chih Hwang |
| 1944 | Ernest Robinson | 1976 | Bernard J. Hamrock Duncan Dowson |
2006 | Raj M. Manglik Juntao Zhang |
| 1945 | William J. King | 1977 | Eugene F. Fitcher Kenneth H. Hunt |
2009 | James Armor Paul Cantin David Christensen Manuj Dhingra David Gutz Yedidia Neumeier J.V.R. Prasad Peter N. Szucs Aspi R. Wadia |
| 1946 | Troels Warming | 1978 | D.E. Negrelli J.R. Lloyd J.L. Novotny |
2013 | Ahmed E.E. Khalil Ashwani K. Gupta Kenneth M. Bryden Sang C. Lee |
| 1947 | Raymond Martinelli | 1979 | Thomas J.R. Hughes W.K. Liu |
2015 | Parnia Mohammadi Liping Liu Pradeep Sharma |
| 1948 | Reginald Gillmor | 1980 | Ravi Chandran John C. Chen Fred W. Staub |
2016 | Xianbo Liu Nicholas Vlajic Xinhua Long Guang Meng Balakumar Balachandran |
| 1950 | Samuel J. Loring | 1981 | Kyung-Suk Kim Rodney J. Clifton |
2017 | Qiang Ma Yihui Zhang |
| 1951 | Clayton Barnard | 1982 | Van C. Mow Steve C. Kuei W. Michael Lai Cecil G. Armstrong |
2022 | Glaucio H. Paulino Ke Liu Tomohiro Tachi |
| 1952 | Neil P. Bailey | 1983 | Albert M. C. Chan Sanjoy Banerjee |
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| 1953 | Jefferson Falkner | 1984 | Michael F. Blair | ||
| 1954 | Edmund Sylvester | 1985 | Lung-Wen Tsai Alexander P. Morgan |
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| 1955 | Robert T. Knapp | 1986 | Robert W. Bjorge Peter Griffith |
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| 1958 | Thomas P. Goodman | 1987 | Dennis L. Siebers Robert J. Moffat Richard G. Schwind |
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| 1959 | Stephen J. Kline | 1988 | Theodore L. Bergman Frank P. Incropera Raymond Viskanta |