The ASA Silver Medal is an award presented by the Acoustical Society of America to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles or through research accomplishments in acoustics. The medal is awarded in a number of categories depending on the technical committee responsible for making the nomination.
Recipients of the medal are listed below.
Source: Acoustical Society of America
1993 - Clarence S. Clay
1997 - Herman Medwin
2004 - D. Vance Holliday
2009 - Robert C. Spindel
1998 - Whitlow W.L. Au
2005 - James A. Simmons
2012 - Richard R. Fay
1976 - Theodore J. Schultz
1999 - Ronald T. Verrillo
2004 - James G. Miller
1989 - Floyd Dunn
1974 - Harry F. Olson
1976 - Hugh S. Knowles
1978 - Benjamin B. Bauer
1982 - Per Vilhelm Bruel
1984 - Vincent Salmon
1986 - Albert G. Bodine
1989 - Joshua E. Greenspon
1992 - Alan Powell
1995 - James E. West
1998 - Richard H. Lyon
2004 - John V. Bouyoucos
2012 - Gary W. Elko
1981 - Carleen M. Hutchins
1984 - Arthur H. Benade
1986 - John C. Backus
1989 - Max V. Matthews
1992 - Thomas D. Rossing
1998 - Neville H. Fletcher
2003 - Johan E.F. Sundberg
2008 - Gabriel Weinreich
2013 - William J. Strong
1978 - Harvey H. Hubbard
1981 - Henning E. von Gierke
1984 - William W. Lang
1986 - Tony F. W. Embleton
1988 - William J. Galloway
1992 - George C. Maling, Jr.
1994 - Kenneth M. Eldred
1999 - Larry H. Royster
2002 - Louis C. Sutherland
2006 – Alan H. Marsh
2009 - Michael R. Stinson
2012 - Keith Attenborough
1975 - Isadore Rudnick
1977 - Martin Greenspan
1979 - Herbert J. McSkimin
1985 - David T. Blackstock
1988 - Mack A. Breazeale
1991 - Allan D. Pierce
1994 - Julian D. Maynard
1997 - Robert E. Apfel
2000 - Gregory W. Swift
2003 - Philip L. Marston
2006 – Henry E. Bass
2008 - Peter J. Westervelt
2013 - Andrea Prosperetti
Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
1977 - Lloyd A. Jeffress
1981 - Ernest Glen Wever
1987 - Eberhard Zwicker
1990 - David M. Green
1994 - Nathaniel I. Durlach
2001 - Neal F. Viemeister
2002 - Brian C. J. Moore
2004 - H. Steven Colburn
2006 – William A. Yost
2010 - Edmund J. Sullivan
2011 - Theodore G. Birdsall
2015 – Brian G. Ferguson – For contributions to in-air and in-water acoustic classification, localization, and tracking.
1975 - Franklin S. Cooper
1980 - Gunnar Fant
1983 - Kenneth N. Stevens
1987 - Dennis H. Klatt
1991 - Arthur S. House
1994 - Peter Ladefoged
1997 - Patricia K. Kuhl
2005 - Katherine S. Harris
2007 - Ingo R. Titze
2009 - Winifred Strange
2010 - David B. Pisoni
If the nomination is made by two or more technical committees the Silver Medal is known as the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal. Recipients include
1983 - Eugen J. Skudrzyk (Theoretical and Applied Acoustics)
1990 - Wesley L. Nyborg (Physical Acoustics and Bioresponse to Vibration)
1991 - W. Dixon Ward (Psychological andPhysiological Acoustics, Musical Acoustics, and Noise)
1992 - Victor C. Anderson (Underwater Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
1993 - Steven L. Garrett (Physical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
1997 - Gerhard M. Sessler (Engineering Acoustics and Physical Acoustics)
1998 - David E. Weston (Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics)
1999 - Jens P. Blauert (Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Architectural Acoustics and
2000 - Lawrence A. Crum (Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration)
2001 - William M. Hartmann (Musical Acoustics, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Architectural Acoustics)
2002 - Arthur B. Baggeroer Underwater Acoustics, Acoustical Oceanography and Signal Processing in Acoustics)
2004 - David Lubman (Silver Medal in Architectural Acoustics and Noise)
2005 - Gilles A. Daigle (Noise and Physical Acoustics)
2006 - Mathias Fink (Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration/Acoustical Oceanography)
2007 - Edwin L. Carstensen (Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration/Physical Acoustics)
2008 - James V. Candy (Signal Processing and Underwater Acoustics)
2010 - Ronald A. Roy (Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration/Physical Acoustics)
2011 - James E. Barger (Underwater Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
2013 - Timothy G. Leighton (Biomedical Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, and Acoustical Oceanography)
2014 - Mark F. Hamilton (Physical Acoustics, Biomedical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
2015 - Henry Cox (Underwater acoustics, Sonar Systems Engineering)
2016 - Armen Sarvazyan (Physical Acoustics, Biomedical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
