The Holley Medal is an award of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for "outstanding and unique act(s) of an engineering nature, accomplishing a noteworthy and timely public benefit by one or more individuals for a single achievement, provided the contributions are equal or comparable."Holley Medal - ASME
at ''asme.org.'' Accessed 08-05-2017 The award was established in 1924 in honor of the American mechanical engineer, inventor and charter member of ASME Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1888).

List of recipients

* 1924, Hjalmar G. Carlson * 1928, Elmer Ambrose Sperry * 1930, Baron Chuza-buro Shiba * 1934,

Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry. Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 ar ...

* 1936,

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that ...

* 1937, Frederick Gardner Cottrell * 1938, Francis Hodgkinson * 1939, Carl Edvard Johansson * 1940, Edwin Howard Armstrong * 1941, John Garand * 1942,

Ernest Lawrence Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation fo ...

* 1943,

Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all warti ...

* 1944, Carl Norden * 1945, Sanford Alexander Moss * 1946, Norman Gibson * 1947,

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* 1948,

Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an Russian-American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, ...

* 1950, Charles Gordon Curtis * 1951, George R. Fink * 1952, Sanford Lockwood Cluett * 1953, Philip M. McKenna * 1954, Walter A. Shewhart * 1955, George J. Hood * 1957, Charles Stark Draper * 1959, Col. Maurice J. Fletcher * 1961, Thomas Elmer Moon * 1963, William Shockley * 1968,

Chester Carlson Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. Carlson invented electrophotography, the process used by millions of photocopiers worldwide. C ...

* 1973, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Kenneth J. Germeshausen * 1975, George M. Grover * 1976,

Emmett Leith Emmett Norman Leith (March 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan – December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor o ...

, Juris Upatnieks * 1977, J. David Margerum * 1979, Bruce G. Collipp, Douwe de Vries''Mechanical Engineering: The Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.'' The Society, 1980. p. 149 * 1980, Soichiro Honda * 1982, Jack Kilby * 1985, John Vincent Atanasoff * 1986, Wilson Greatbatch * 1987, Robert J. Moffat * 1988, Vernon D. Roosa * 1989, Jack S. Kilby, Jerry D. Merryman, James H. Van Tassel * 1990,

Roy J. Plunkett Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 – May 12, 1994) was an American chemist. He discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, in 1938. Personal life and education Plunkett was born in New Carlisle, Ohio and attended Newton High ...

* 1991, James R. Thompson * 1994, Dominick Danna, Richard W. Newman, William C. Moore * 1996, Bernard J. Miller * 1998,

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* 2001, Heinz Erzberger * 2005, James D. Walker * 2008, David G. Lilley * 2010, Ashwani K. Gupta * 2020,

Yogesh Jaluria Professor Yogesh Jaluria is Board of Governors Professor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a specialist in thermal sciences and engineering. ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Asme Medal Awards established in 1924 Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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