The Frank P. Brown Medal was formerly awarded by the Franklin Institute for excellence in science, engineering, and structures.Willis Haviland Carrier 1941 Engineering Brown It was established by the 1938 will of Franklin Pierce Brown, a member of the Master Plumbers Association. Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Volumes 45-47 Boston Society of Civil Engineers
The designer of the medal was Walker Kirtland Hancock.MedalArtists.com
Laureates 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 EngineeringOral-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 1955 – Charles S. Leopold EngineeringAir-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 Gail Cooper; JHU Press, 2002 ;227 pages; page 171 and notes, 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 Youtz, Philip Newell, 1895-1972 Architect, curator, inventor and educator 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 Development of heat pipes for foundations in Arctic regions 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 Introduction of Ben C. Gerwick Jr., Recipient of the 2001 Ralph B. Peck Award American Society of Civil Engineers 1988 - Marvin A. Mass Engineering Eye on People Jewish Post, "He received the prestigious Franklin Pierce Brown Medal for scientific achievement in 1989" 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.
See also
List of engineering awards
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