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History of Winners

Date Elevated Name Awarded for:
2007 Harry L. Tuller Micro-Ionics: A Revolution in Portable Power Generation and Environmental Sensing
2006 Paul F. Becher Microstructural and Interfacial Engineering of Ceramics Across Atomic-to-Micro Length Scales
2005 Peter G. Barnwell An Innovative Ceramic Technology Success – LTCC from Laboratory to Electronic Applications in the Market Place
2004 David W. Johnson, Jr. Ceramic Materials for Electronic and Photonic Applications: Past, Present and Future
2003 Nathan S. Lewis An ‘Electronic Nose’ Based on Arrays of Conducting Polymer Composite Vapor Detectors
2002 Duncan T. Moore   
2001 Subhash C. Singhal The important role of ceramic materials in developing fuel cells for the Electric Vehicles of the future.
2000 David L. Wilcox, Sr. The Wireless/Internet Revolution and the Multi-layer Ceramic Technology Enabling Role
1999 Alastair M. Glass Photomic Materials: The Enabler for the Communications Revolution
1998 Maxine L. Savitz Commercialization of Advanced Structural Ceramics: Patience is a Necessity
1997 Terry A. Michalske Intergrated Microsystems
1996 George H. Beall Innovation in Multiphase Glass-Derived Systems
1995 Delbert E. Day Uses of Glass in the Body
1994 Robert A. Laudise Industrial Ecology: A Key to Green Processing and Green Design
1993 J. Derek Birchall The Processing and Properties of Ceramics
1992 L. Eric Cross Ceramic Sensors and Actuators for Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures
1991 Arthur H. Heuer Biological and Biomimetic Ceramics: A New Frontier
1990 Karl M. Prewo Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites
1989 Anthony G. Evans A Perspective on the Development of High-Performance Structural Ceramics
1988 Richard M. Spriggs Ceramic Engineering and Science for the 21st Century
1987 Robert E. Newnham The Golden Age of Electroceramics
1986 Hiroaki Yanagida Industrial and Cultural Revolution with High Tech Ceramics
1985 Rustum Roy The Ambivalent Role of Technology in the Future of America and the World
1984 Gene H. Haertling Ceramics in a High Technology World
1983 Fred M. Ernsberger The Nonconformist Ion
1982 Hermann Schmalzried Can Reactions in Ceramic Systems Be Predicted?
1981 John B. Wachtman, Jr. National Materials Policy: Critical Materials and Opportunities
1980 W. David Kingery Social Needs and Ceramic Technology
1979 Joseph A. Pask his talk discussig ceramic processing and ceramic science.
1978 Julius J. Harwood his talk emphasizing the dynamics of materials changes and ceramics opportunities in automotive vehicles in the future.
1977 Hans Thurnauer Reflections
1976 John F. McMahon Implications of Our Ceramic Heritage
1975 Emilio Q. Daddario Materials Program of the Office of Technology Assessment
1974 James Boyd   
1973 George W. Brindley The World of Clays and Clay Materials
1972 Henry Eyring Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Condensed Phases
1971 Hobart K. Kraner Partners in Success
1970 Elburt F. Osborn The Remarkable Development and Precarious Future of Basic Ceramic Research in the United States - A Case History
1969 Edward Wenk, Jr. A New Look at the Oceans
1968 W.T. Pecora The Earth's Crust as Our Geologic Laboratory
1967 Eric A. Walker Engineering: Needs and Prospects
1966 J. Herbert Hollomon Technology and Public Policy
1965 Frederick Seitz Current Trends in Solid State Science
1964 W. Scott Hill The Changing Role of Our Engineering Societies
1963 Andrew I. Andrews The Specification of Color
1962 Seymour W. Herwald   
1961 Robert F. Legget   
1960 John R. Townsend The Challenge to Ceramics in National Defense
1959 David Swan   
1958 John S. Rinehart Meteorites, Satellites, and Ceramics
1957 Farrington Daniels Utilization of Solar Energy
1956 John Frank Schairer Melting Relations of the Common Rock-Forming Oxides
1955 Alexander Silverman Glass Through the Ages
1954 Edward H. Kraus Gems, Natural and Synthetic
1953 Frederick R. Matson Ceramic Archaeology
1952 James Bliss Austin The Thermal Dilatation of Non-Metallic Substances
1951 William C. Taylor The Effect on Glass of Half a Century of Technical Development
1950 C.E. Kenneth Mees The Growth of Industrial Research
1949 Frank H. Riddle Spark Plug Insulation
1948 William H. Scheick Ceramics in the Future of Housing
1947 Ralph E. Gibson Integration in Science, Education, and Study
1946 George L. Clark Roentgen Ceramics, Past, Present, and Future
1945 Clarence S. Ross Minerals & Mineral Relationships to the Clay Minerals
1944 Hoyt C. Hottel Infraray Heating
1943 Norman L. Bowen Petrology and Silicate Technology
1942 Louis B. Tuckerman An Outsider Looks at Ceramic Problems
1941 Ernest A. Hauser Colloid Chemistry in Ceramics
1940 Wolsey G. Worcester Orton, the Ceramist
1939 Lawrence E. Barringer A Background for Ceramics
1938 Paul F. Kerr A Decade of Research on the Nature of Clay
1937 Robert B. Sosman Pyrometry & Steel Maker's Refractories
1936 William J. McCaughey Contribution on Mineralogy to Ceramic Technology & Research
1935 H. Ries Geology and Clay Research
1934 Arthur L. Day Natural and Artificial Ceramic Products
1933 Edward W. Washburn Phase Rule in Ceramics


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