Frank P. Brown Medal
The Frank P. Brown Medal was formerly awarded by the Franklin Institute for excellence in science, engineering, and structures.[1] It was established by the 1938 will of Franklin Pierce Brown, a member of the Master Plumbers Association.[2]
The designer of the medal was Walker Kirtland Hancock.[3]
Laureates
[edit]- 1941 – Willis Haviland Carrier Engineering
- 1942 – Duff Andrew Abrams Engineering
- 1943 – Albert Kahn Engineering
- 1944 – Harvey Clayton Rentschler Engineering
- 1945 – David Gilmore Clarke Engineering
- 1946 – Karl Terzaghi Earth Science
- 1947 – Karl P. Billner Engineering
- 1950 – Gustave Magnel Engineering
- 1950 – Eugene Freyssinet Engineering
- 1951 – Samuel Arnold Greeley Civil Engineering
- 1952 – Fred N. Severud Engineering
- 1953 – Frank Lloyd Wright Engineering
- 1954 – Edmund Germer Engineering
- 1954 – Hans J. Spanner Engineering
- 1954 – Humboldt W. Leverenz Engineering[4]
- 1955 – Charles S. Leopold Engineering[5]
- 1956 – Robert G. Letourneau Engineering
- 1957 - Pier Luigi Nervi Engineering
- 1958 - Charles Milton Spofford Engineering (author of The Theory of Structures 1915)
- 1959 - Hardy Cross Engineering
- 1960 - Richard Buckminster Fuller Engineering
- 1961 - Charles Edouard Jeanneret LeCorbusier Engineering
- 1962 - Edmund Norwood Bacon Civil Engineering
- 1964 - Louis I. Kahn Engineering
- 1965 - William Jaird Levitt Engineering
- 1966 - Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Engineering
- 1967 - Carl Koch (architect) Engineering
- 1968 - Philip Newell Youtz Engineering [6]
- 1970 - Trevor Lloyd Wadley Engineering
- 1971 - Henry Lee Willet Engineering
- 1974 - Hans Liebherr Engineering
- 1975 - Public Building Services of U.S. Govt Engineering
- 1976 - E. Dale Waters Engineering [7][8][9]
- 1978 - Henry J. Degenkolb Engineering
- 1982 - Vincent G. Kling Engineering
- 1982 - Lynn S. Beedle Engineering
- 1987 - Paul Weidlinger Engineering
- 1988 - Ben C. Gerwick, Jr. Engineering [10]
- 1988 - Marvin A. Mass Engineering [11]
- 1992 – John W. Fisher Engineering
- 1995 – Jean M. Muller Engineering
- Now dormant as an award. The last Frank P. Brown Medal was awarded in 1995.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Willis Haviland Carrier 1941 Engineering Brown
- ^ Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Volumes 45-47 Boston Society of Civil Engineers
- ^ MedalArtists.com
- ^ Oral-History:Humboldt W. Leverenz "He received the Franklin Institute Brown Medal in 1954 for his contributions to the development of the fluorescent lamp. Head of RCA Laboratories, developed a Periodic Chart of the Elements
- ^ Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 Gail Cooper; JHU Press, 2002 ;227 pages; page 171 and notes,
- ^ Youtz, Philip Newell, 1895-1972 Architect, curator, inventor and educator
- ^ Development of heat pipes for foundations in Arctic regions
- ^ "US Patent. Permafrost structural support with heat pipe stabilization, Inventor. E. Waters". patents.google.com.
- ^ "Elmer Dale Waters". Sunset Gardens Obituaries.
- ^ Introduction of Ben C. Gerwick Jr., Recipient of the 2001 Ralph B. Peck Award American Society of Civil Engineers
- ^ Eye on People Jewish Post, "He received the prestigious Franklin Pierce Brown Medal for scientific achievement in 1989"
- ^ "Search Laureates". The Franklin Institute Awards.