Prime Movers Committee Award
The Prime Movers Committee Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature of thermal electric station practice or equipment which are available through public presentation and publication. Those papers approved by the appropriate papers review committee as meeting ASME standards and available in printed form may be considered for this award. Papers, while usually current need not necessarily be so, may be by a single author or multiple authors.
The Prime Movers Committee of the Edison Electric Institute established the award in 1954.
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| Form of Award: | $1000 and Certificate |
| Limitation(s): | None |
| Administrative Responsibility: | Power Division |
| Nomination Deadline: | February 1 |
| Nomination Sent To: | Leila Persaud |
| Phone Number: | 212-591-7071 |
| E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
| Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
PRIME MOVERS COMMITTEE AWARD RECIPIENTS
| 1955 | Louis Elliott | 1974 | Bezalel Bornstein | Stephen A. Bryk | |
| Walter F. Friend | Paul Leung | 1993 | Michael F. Link | ||
| Edward C. Duffy | 1975 | Karl A. Gulbrand | Erich Winschuh | ||
| Gustaf A. Gaffert | Paul Leung | Karl-Heinz Winterberg | |||
| Fred W. Argue | 1976 | Hans-Gunter Haddenhorst | Arne Mattis | ||
| Bernhardt G.A. Skrotski | Wolfgang Mattick | 1994 | Rattan K. Tawney | ||
| Robert B. Donworth | Z. Stanley Stys | Ram G. Narula | |||
| Walter J. Lyman | Otto Weber | Michael J. Boswell | |||
| T. Harry Mandil | 1977 | M. Araoka | Fabrizio DeCandia | ||
| Nunzio J. Palladino | J.D. Fox | 1997 | Thomas H. McCloskey | ||
| 1956 | Milton Shaw | H. Haneda | Michael A. Pollard | ||
| John W. Simpson | K. Setoguchi | John N. Schimmels | |||
| 1957 | Heinrich Hegetschweller | W.F. Siddall | 2000 | David B. Smith | |
| Robert L. Bartlett | 1979 | Henry E. Lokay | David A. Mauney | ||
| 1958 | Vivian F. Estcourt | D.G. Ramey | 2001 | Marco Gambini | |
| 1959 | J. Kenneth Salisbury | W.R. Brose | Michela Vellini | ||
| 1960 | Sigmund N. Fiala | 1980 | Heinz E. Termuehlen | 2005 | Fred D. Lang |
| James H. Harlow | 1981 | Bezalel Bornstein | Loren E. Mayer | ||
| 1961 | Charles Strohmeyer, Jr. | Kenneth C. Cotton | David A.T. Rodgers | ||
| 1963 | E.F. Walsh | 1982 | Eric Raask | 2007 | Thomas Reis |
| R.L. Jackson | 1983 | Paul G. Albert | Dani Fadda | ||
| R.E. Warner | William J. Sumner | Mark A. Buzanowski | |||
| 1964 | Everett P. Partridge | 1984 | Kenneth C. Cotton | 2008 | La Ronda Bowen-Fruin |
| 1965 | A.E. Weller | Harris S. Shafer | Allen Dusault | ||
| W.T. Reid | Thomas H. McCloskey | Ruth MacDougall | |||
| 1966 | F.J. Hanzalek | Robert H. Boettcher | Heidi Ochsner | ||
| P.G. Ipsen | 1985 | David H. Cooke | George Simons | ||
| 1967 | Homer F. Hatfield | 1986 | William J. Sumner | 2009 | Robert Brandt Jr. |
| Mark G. Pfeiffer | James H. Vogan | 2010 | Antonio Diego-Marin | ||
| Charles B. Wurtz | Robert J. Lindinger | Carlos Melendez-Cervantes | |||
| 1968 | G.N. Stone | 1987 | Peter Schofield | Angel A. Mendez-Aranda | |
| A.J. Clark | 1988 | Heinrich Oeynhausen | Armando Giles-Alarcon | ||
| 1969 | Paul Goldstein | Gerhard Roettger | 2011 | William H. Kirkenir | |
| Charles L. Burton | Juergen Ewald | David Earley | |||
| 1970 | Paul Leung | Kurt Schleithoff | 2012 | Luther M. Raatikka | |
| Raymond E. Moore | Karl-Heinz Winterberg | 2013 | Arun Puri | ||
| 1971 | Paul Leung | Arne Mattis | John DiBiase | ||
| Raymond E. Moore | 1990 | Rick Blomgren | 2014 | Robert J. Bell | |
| 1972 | G.S. Liao | Thomas G. Ebben | Albert S. Birks | ||
| Paul Leung | Imdad Imam | 2016 | Weizhong Feng | ||
| 1973 | D.W. Rahoi | John R. Scheibel | 2017 | Darren M. Nightingale | |
| R.C. Scarberry | 1992 | John B. Kitto, Jr. | |||
| J.R. Crum | James S. Kulig | ||||
| P.E. Morris |