The Robert H. Richards Award, established in 1948, and funded by AIME, recognizes achievement in any form which unmistakably furthers the art of mineral beneficiation in any of its branches.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 – Richard H. Johnson
- 2023 – Stephen Morrell
- 2022 – Kathleen A. Altman
- 2021 – Michael J. Mankosa
- 2020 – James L. Vanderbeek
- 2019 – Jaime E. Sepúlveda
- 2018 – Hans Von Michaelis
- 2017 – S. A. Ravishankar
- 2016 – Robert Dunne
- 2015 – Rick Q. Honaker
- 2014 – John G. Mansanti
- 2013 – Nick Hazen
- 2012 – Gerry Luttrell
- 2011 – Gary Simmons
- 2010 – Ronald O. Harma
- 2009 – D. Erik Spiller
- 2008 – Timothy R. Snider
- 2007 – Roe-Hoan Yoon
- 2006 – James R. Arnold
- 2005 – John O. Marsden
- 2004 – Bhupendra K. Parekh
- 2003 – Terence P. McNulty
- 2002 – Kenneth N. Han
- 2001 – Edward C. Dowling, Jr.
- 2000 – S. Komar Kawatra
- 1999 – Douglas N. Halbe
- 1998 – Ronald L. Wiegel
- 1997 – Vernon R. Degner
- 1996 – Anthony G. Moon
- 1995 – Brij M. Moudgil
- 1994 – Bernard J. Scheiner
- 1993 – John A. Herbst
- 1992 – Laurence D. Hartzog
- 1991 – Jan D. Miller
- 1990 – Andrew L. Mular
- 1989 – A. Tobey Yu
- 1988 – Richard R. Klimpel
- 1987 – Ponisseril Somasundaran
- 1986 – Iwao Iwasaki
- 1985 – Alban J. Lynch
- 1984 – Roshan B. Bhappu
- 1983 – Maurice C. Fuerstenau
- 1982 – A. R. MacPherson
- 1981 – William A. Griffith
- 1980 – James E. Lawver
- 1979 – Strathmore R. B. Cooke
- 1978 – Frank F. Aplan
- 1977 – Dennis F. Kelsall
- 1976 – Donald A. Dahlstrom
- 1975 – Douglas W. Fuerstenau
- 1974 – Robert S. Shoemaker
- 1973 – John Dixon Vincent
- 1972 – Harlowe Hardinge
- 1971 – H. Rush Spedden
- 1970 – Stuart R. Zimmerley
- 1969 – J. Hall Carpenter
- 1968 – Frank Woods McQuiston, Jr.
- 1967 – Theodore B. Counselman
- 1966 – Edwin H. Crabtree
- 1965 – Fred Chester Bond
- 1964 – Ira Boyd Humphreys
- 1963 – Not given
- 1962 – Stanley D. Michaelson
- 1961 – Nathaniel Arbiter
- 1960 – Norman L. Weiss
- 1958 – Fred D. DeVaney
- 1957 – Antoine Marc Gaudin
- 1956 – Arthur W. Fahrenwald
- 1955 – Edward Wilson Davis
- 1954 – C. Harry Benedict
- 1953 – Edward William Engelmann
- 1952 – John Flickinger Myers
- 1951 – Frank Roscoe Milliken
- 1950 – Arthur Fay Taggart
For more information, please contact SME at awards@smenet.org.