John Fritz Medal

John Fritz Medal
The John Fritz Medal has been awarded annually since 1902 by the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) for "outstanding scientific or industrial achievements". The medal was created for the 80th birthday of John Fritz, who lived between 1822 and 1913. When AAES was dissolved in 2020, the administration of the Fritz medal was transferred to the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and is currently coordinated by AIME member society, the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, & Exploration (SME).
Background
The John Fritz Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize for engineering." This prestigious award is given annually for notable scientific or industrial achievements. It is granted to living people, but also posthumous. Since its initiation in 1902, there were six years when it was not awarded.
The John Fritz Medal board once consisted of sixteen representatives in four national societies in the fields of civil engineering, mining, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.
Among the most notable winners are Thomas Edison, Lord Kelvin, Alexander Graham Bell, George Westinghouse, Orville Wright, Charles F. "Boss" Kettering, Claude Shannon, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
Recipients
2021 Elon Musk
2020 No award
2019 No award
2018 Anne S. Kiremidjian
2017 Frank Kreith
2016 H. Vincent Poor
2015 Jon D. Magnusson
2014 Julia Weertman
2013 Gregory Stephanopoulos
2012 Leslie E. Robertson
2011 Andrew J. Viterbi
2010 Gerald J. Posakony
2009 Yvonne Claeys Brill
2008 Kristina M. Johnson
2007 Gavriel Salvendy
2006 No award
2005 George Tamaro
2004 John A. Swanson
2003 Robert S. Langer
2002 Daniel S. Goldin
2001 Paul C. W. Chu
2000 John W. Fisher
1999 George H. Heilmeier
1998 Ivan A. Getting
1997 Arthur E. Humphrey
1996 George N. Hatsopoulos
1995 Lynn S. Beedle
1994 Hoyt C. Hottel
1993 Gordon E. Moore
1992 Serge Gratch
1991 Hunter Rouse
1990 Gordon A. Cain
1989 Robert N. Noyce
1988 Ralph B. Peck
1987 Ralph Landau
1986 Simon Ramo
1985 Daniel C. Drucker
1984 Kenneth A. Roe
1983 Claude Elwood Shannon
1982 David Packard
1981 Ian MacGregor
1980 T. Louis Austin, Jr.
1979 Nathan M. Newmark
1978 Robert G. Heitz
1977 George R. Brown
1976 Thomas O. Paine
1975 Manson Benedict
1974 H. I. Romnes
1973 Lyman Dwight Wilbur
1972 William Webster
1971 Patrick E. Haggerty
1970 Glenn B. Warren
1969 Michael Lawrence Haider
1968 Igor Ivan Sikorsky
1967 Walker L. Cisler
1966 Warren K. Lewis
1965 Frederick Kappel
1964 Lucius D. Clay
1963 Hugh L. Dryden
1962 Crawford H. Greenewalt
1961 Stephen D. Bechtel
1960 Gwilym A. Price
1959 Mervin J. Kelly
1958 John R. Suman
1957 Ben Moreell
1956 Philip Sporn
1955 Harry Alonzo Winne
1954 William Embry Wrather
1953 Benjamin F. Fairless
1952 Ervin George Bailey
1951 Vannevar Bush
1950 Walter H. Aldridge
1949 Charles Metcalf Allen
1948 Theodore von Karman
1947 Lewis Warrington Chubb
1946 Zay Jeffries
1945 John Lucian Savage
1944 Charles F. Kettering
1943 Willis Rodney Whitney
1942 Everette Lee DeGolyer
1941 Ralph Budd
1940 Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (posthumous)
1939 Frank Baldwin Jewett
1938 Paul Dyer Merica
1937 Arthur Newell Talbot
1936 William Frederick Durand
1935 Frank Julian Sprague (posthumous)
1934 John Ripley Freeman (posthumous)
1933 Daniel Cowan Jackling
1932 Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
1931 David Watson Taylor
1930 Ralph Modjeski
1929 Herbert Clark Hoover
1928 John Joseph Carty
1927 Elmer Ambrose Sperry
1926 Edward Dean Adams
1925 John Frank Stevens
1924 Ambrose Swasey
1923 Guglielmo Marconi
1922 Charles P. E. Schneider
1921 Sir Robert Hadfield
1920 Orville Wright
1919 Gen. George W. Goethals
1918 J. Waldo Smith
1917 Henry Marion Howe
1916 Elihu Thomson
1915 James Douglas
1914 John Edson Sweet
1913 No award
1912 Robert Woolston Hunt
1911 Sir William Henry White
1910 Alfred Noble
1909 Charles Talbot Porter
1908 Thomas Alva Edison
1907 Alexander Graham Bell
1906 George Westinghouse
1905 Lord Kelvin
1904 No award
1903 No award
1902 John Fritz
See also
List of engineering awards
List of prizes named after people
References
Engineering awards
Awards established in 1902
1902 establishments in the United States