The Washington Award is an American engineering award.
Since 1916 it has been given annually for "accomplishments which promote the happiness, comfort, and well-being of humanity". It is awarded jointly by the following engineering societies: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Nuclear Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, and Western Society of Engineers (which administers the award).
Herbert C. Hoover, 1919
Robert W. Hunt, 1922
Arthur N. Talbot, 1924
Jonas Waldo Smith, 1925
John Watson Alvord, 1926
Orville Wright, 1927
Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 1928
Bion Joseph Arnold, 1929
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, 1930
Ralph Modjeski, 1931
William David Coolidge, 1932
Ambrose Swasey, 1935
Charles Franklin Kettering, 1936
Frederick Gardner Cottrell, 1937
Frank Baldwin Jewett, 1938
Daniel Webster Mead, 1939
Daniel Cowan Jackling, 1940
Ralph Budd, 1941
William Lamont Abbott, 1942
Andrey Abraham Potter, 1943
Henry Ford, 1944
Arthur Holly Compton, 1945
Vannevar Bush, 1946
Karl Taylor Compton, 1947
Ralph Edward Flanders, 1948
John Lucian Savage, 1949
Wilfred Sykes, 1950
Edwin Howard Armstrong, 1951
Henry Townley Heald, 1952
Gustav Egloff, 1953
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, 1954
Charles Erwin Wilson, 1955
Robert E. Wilson, 1956
Walker Lee Cisler, 1957
Ben Moreell, 1958
James R. Killian, Jr., 1959
Herbert Payne Sedwick, 1960
William V. Kahler, 1961
Alexander C. Monteith, 1962
Philip Sporn, 1963
John Slezak, 1964
Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 1965
Augustus Braun Kinzel, 1966
Frederick Lawson Hovde, 1967
James B. Fisk, 1968
Nathan M. Newmark, 1969
H.G. Rickover, 1970
William L. Everitt, 1971
Thomas Otten Paine, 1972
John A. Volpe, 1973
John D. deButts, 1974
David Packard, 1975
Ralph B. Peck, 1976
Michael Tenenbaum, 1977
Dixy Lee Ray, 1978
Marvin Camras, 1979
Neil Armstrong, 1980
John E. Swearingen, 1981
Manson Benedict, 1982
John Bardeen, 1983
Robert W. Galvin, 1984
Stephen D. Bechtel, 1985
Mark Shepherd, Jr, 1986
Grace Murray Hopper, 1987
James McDonald, 1988
Sherwood L. Fawcett, 1989
John H. Sununu, 1990
Frank Borman, 1991
Leon M. Lederman, 1992
William States Lee, 1993
Kenneth H. Olson, 1994
George W. Housner, 1995
Wilson Greatbatch, 1996
Frank Kreith, 1997
John R. Conrad, 1998
Jack S. Kilby, 1999
Donna Lee Shirley, 2000
Dan Bricklin, 2001
Bob Frankston, 2001
Richard J. Robbins, 2002
Eugene Cernan, 2003
Nick Holonyak, 2004
Robert S. Langer, 2005
Henry Petroski, 2006
Michael J. Birck, 2007
Dean Kamen, 2008
Clyde N. Baker, Jr., 2009
Alvy Ray Smith, 2010
Martin C. Jischke, 2011
Martin Cooper, 2012
Kristina M. Johnson, 2013
Bill Nye, 2014
Bernard Amadei, 2015
Aprille Joy Ericsson, 2016
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