Prime Movers Committee Award

The Prime Movers Committee Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature of thermal electric station practice or equipment which are available through public presentation and publication. Those papers approved by the appropriate papers review committee as meeting ASME standards and available in printed form may be considered for this award. Papers, while usually current need not necessarily be so, may be by a single author or multiple authors.

The Prime Movers Committee of the Edison Electric Institute established the award in 1954.

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Form of Award: $1000 and Certificate
Limitation(s): None
Administrative Responsibility: Power Division
Nomination Deadline: February 1
E-mail: persaudl@asme.org
Awarded By: Committee on Honors (COH)

Prime Movers Committee Awardees

2024 Joe Roy-Aikins
Gary De Klerk
Duduzile Ramasimong
Kumar Rupnarain
2017 Darren M. Nightingale
2016 Weizhong Feng
2014 Robert J. Bell
Albert S. Birks
2013 Arun Puri
John DiBiase
2012 Luther M. Raatikka
2011 William H. Kirkenir
David Earley
2010 Antonio Diego-Marin
Carlos Melendez-Cervantes
Angel A. Mendez-Aranda
Armando Giles-Alarcon 
2009 Robert Brandt Jr.
2008 La Ronda Bowen-Fruin
Allen Dusault
Ruth MacDougall
Heidi Ochsner
George Simons
2007 Thomas Reis
Dani Fadda
Mark A. Buzanowski
2005 Fred D. Lang
Loren E. Mayer
David A.T. Rodgers
2001 Marco Gambini
Michela Vellini
2000 David B. Smith
David A. Mauney
1997 Thomas H. McCloskey
Michael A. Pollard
John N. Schimmels
1994 Rattan K. Tawney
Ram G. Narula
Michael J. Boswell
Fabrizio DeCandia
1993 Michael F. Link
Erich Winschuh
Karl-Heinz Winterberg
Arne Mattis
1992 John B. Kitto, Jr.
James S. Kulig
Stephen A. Bryk
1990 Rick Blomgren
Thomas G. Ebben
Imdad Imam
John R. Scheibel
1988 Heinrich Oeynhausen
Gerhard Roettger
Juergen Ewald
Kurt Schleithoff
Karl-Heinz Winterberg
Arne Mattis
1987 Peter Schofield
1986 William J. Sumner
James H. Vogan
Robert J. Lindinger
1985 David H. Cooke
1984 Kenneth C. Cotton
Harris S. Shafer
Thomas H. McCloskey
Robert H. Boettcher
1983 Paul G. Albert
William J. Sumner
1982 Eric Raask
1981 Bezalel Bornstein
Kenneth C. Cotton
1980 Heinz E. Termuehlen
1979 Henry E. Lokay
D.G. Ramey
W.R. Brose
1977 M. Araoka
J.D. Fox
H. Haneda
K. Setoguchi
W.F. Siddall
1976 Hans-Gunter Haddenhorst
Wolfgang Mattick
Z. Stanley Stys
Otto Weber
1975 Karl A. Gulbrand
Paul Leung
1974 Bezalel Bornstein
Paul Leung
1973 D.W. Rahoi
R.C. Scarberry
J.R. Crum
P.E. Morris
1972 G.S. Liao
Paul Leung
1971 Paul Leung
Raymond E. Moore
1970 Paul Leung
Raymond E. Moore
1969 Paul Goldstein
Charles L. Burton
1968 G.N. Stone
A.J. Clark
1967 Homer F. Hatfield
Mark G. Pfeiffer
Charles B. Wurtz
1966 F.J. Hanzalek
P.G. Ipsen
1965 A.E. Weller
W.T. Reid
1964 Everett P. Partridge
1963 E.F. Walsh
R.L. Jackson
R.E. Warner
1961 Charles Strohmeyer, Jr.
1960 Sigmund N. Fiala
James H. Harlow
1959 J. Kenneth Salisbury
1958 Vivian F. Estcourt
1957 Heinrich Hegetschweller
Robert L. Bartlett
1956 Milton Shaw
John W. Simpson
1955 Louis Elliott
Walter F. Friend
Edward C. Duffy
Gustaf A. Gaffert
Fred W. Argue
Bernhardt G.A. Skrotski
Walter J. Lyman
T. Harry Mandil
Nunzio J. Palladino

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