Hoover Medal facts for kids
The Hoover Medal is a special award given to engineers in America. It celebrates engineers who do amazing things to help people, even outside of their regular work. This important award has been given out every year since 1930.
Several big engineering groups work together to give out this medal. These include the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME is the group that manages the award.
The medal is named after Herbert Hoover. He was an engineer himself and was the very first person to receive this award. He later became a President of the United States.
Who Has Received the Hoover Medal?
Source:ASME
Many talented engineers have received the Hoover Medal for their contributions to humanity. Here is a list of past recipients:
- 1930 Herbert Hoover
- 1936 Ambrose Swasey
- 1938 John Frank Stevens
- 1940 Gano Dunn
- 1941 D. Robert Yarnall
- 1942 Gerard Swope
- 1944 Ralph E. Flanders
- 1945 William Henry Harrison
- 1946 Vannevar Bush
- 1948 Malcolm Pirnie
- 1949 Frank B. Jewett
- 1950 Karl T. Compton
- 1951 William L. Batt
- 1952 Clarence D. Howe
- 1954 Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- 1955 Charles F. Kettering
- 1956 Herbert Hoover Jr.
- 1957 Scott Turner
- 1958 Raymond A. Wheeler
- 1959 Henry T. Heald
- 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1961 Mervin J. Kelly
- 1962 Walker Lee Cisler
- 1963 James Rhyne Killian Jr.
- 1964 John Alexander McCone
- 1966 Lillian Moller Gilbreth
- 1967 Lucius D. Clay
- 1968 Sir Harold Hartley
- 1969 Edgar F. Kaiser
- 1970 John Erik Jonsson
- 1971 Luis A. Ferré
- 1972 Frederick R. Kappel
- 1973 William Joseph Hedley
- 1974 David Packard
- 1975 James Boyd
- 1976 James B. Fisk
- 1977 Peter C. Goldmark
- 1978 Donald C. Burnham
- 1979 Charles M. Brinckerhoff
- 1980 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
- 1981 Arnold O. Beckman
- 1982 Michel T. Halbouty
- 1983 Joseph J. Jacobs
- 1984 Kenneth A. Roe
- 1985 Robert C. West
- 1986 Lawrence P. Grayson
- 1987 Martin Goland
- 1988 William R. Gianelli
- 1989 John J. McKetta
- 1990 Joseph M. Rodgers
- 1991 Haldor F. Topsoe
- 1992 Roland W. Schmitt
- 1993 Mario G. Salvadori
- 1994 William J. Carroll
- 1995 Dean Kamen
- 1996 M. Hasan Nouri
- 1997 Otto J. Helweg
- 1998 James Earl Carter Jr.
- 2001 Richard H. Stanley
- 2002 Charles H. Thornton
- 2003 Barry K. Thacker
- 2005 Sudabeh Shoja
- 2007 Bernard Amadei
- 2008 APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
- 2012 N R Narayana Murthy
- 2013 Steve Wozniak
- 2015 Robert S. Langer
- 2016 Leonard Harris, Australia
- 2017 John Staehlin
- 2018 David C. Baldwin
- 2019 Marc Edwards
- 2020 William S. Hammack
- 2021 Cato T. Laurencin
- 2022 Ratan N. Tata
See Also
- List of engineering awards
- List of mechanical engineering awards
- List of awards for contributions to society
- List of awards named after people
