The John Fritz Medal is presented each year for scientific or industrial achievement in any field of pure or applied science. It was established in 1902 as a memorial to the great engineer whose name it bears.
Past Award Recipients:
- 2021 - Elon Musk
- 2018 - Anne S. Kiremidjian, Ph.D.
- 2017 - Frank Kreith, Doc.Univ.Paris, P.E.
- 2016 - H. Vincent Poor, Ph.D., NAE
- 2015 - Jon D. Magnusson, P.E.
- 2014 - Julia Weertman, D.Sc.
- 2013 - Gregory N. Stephanopoulos, Ph.D.
- 2012 - Leslie E. Robertson
- 2011 - Andrew J. Viterbi
- 2010 - Gerald J. Posakony
- 2009 - Yvonne Claeys Brill
- 2008 - Kristina M. Johnson
- 2007 - Gavriel Salvendy
- 2006 - No Award
- 2005 - George J. Tamaro
- 2004 - John A. Swanson
- 2003 - Robert, S. Langer
- 2002 - Daniel S. Goldin
- 2001 - Paul C. W. Chu
- 2000 - John W. Fisher
- 1999 - George H. Heilmeier
- 1998 - Ivan A. Getting
- 1997 - Arthur E. Humphrey
- 1996 - George N. Hatsopoulos
- 1995 - Lynn S. Beedle
- 1994 - Hoyt C. Hottel
- 1993 - Gordon E. Moore
- 1992 - Serge Gratch
- 1991 - Hunter Rouse
- 1990 - Gordon A. Cain
- 1989 - Robert N. Noyce
- 1988 - Ralph B. Beck
- 1987 - Ralph Landau
- 1986 - Simon Ramo
- 1985 - Daniel C. Drucker
- 1984 - Kenneth A. Roe
- 1983 - Claude Elwood Shannon
- 1982 - David Packard
- 1981 - Ian MacGregor
- 1980 - T. Louis Austin, Jr.
- 1979 - Nathan M. Newark
- 1978 - Robert G. Heitz
- 1977 - George R. Brown
- 1976 - Thomas O. Paine
- 1975 - Manson Benedict
- 1974 - H. I. Romnes
- 1973 - Lyman Wilber
- 1972 - William Webster
- 1971 - Patrick E. Haggerty
- 1970 - Glenn B. Warren
- 1969 - Michael L. Haider
- 1968 - Igor Ivan Sikorsky
- 1967 - Walker L. Cisler
- 1966 - Warren K. Lewis
- 1965 - Frederick R. Kappel
- 1964 - Lucius D. Clay
- 1963 - Hugh L. Dryden
- 1962 - Crawford H. Greenewalt
- 1961 - Stephen D. Bechtel
- 1960 - Gwilyn A. Price
- 1959 - Mervin J. Kelly
- 1958 - John R. Suman
- 1957 - Ben Moreell
- 1956 - Philip Sporn
- 1955 - Harry Alonzo Winne
- 1954 - William Embry Wrather
- 1953 - Benjamin F. Fairless
- 1952 - Ervin George Bailey
- 1951 - Vannevar Bush
- 1950 - Walter H. Aldridge
- 1949 - Charles M. Allen
- 1948 - Theodore Von Karman
- 1947 - Lewis Warrington Chubb
- 1946 - Zay Jeffries
- 1945 - John Lucian Savage
- 1944 - Charles F. Kettering
- 1943 - Willis Rodney Whitney
- 1942 - Everette Lee DeGolyer
- 1941 - Ralph Budd
- 1940 - Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (posthumous)
- 1939 - Frank Baldwin Jewett
- 1938 - Paul Dyer Merica
- 1937 - Arthur Newell Talbot
- 1936 - William Frederick Durand
- 1935 - Frank Julian Sprague (posthumous)
- 1934 - John Ripley Freeman (posthumous)
- 1933 - Daniel Cowan Jackling
- 1932 - Michael Idvorsky Pupin
- 1931 - David Watson Taylor
- 1930 - Ralph Modjeski
- 1929 - Herbert Clark Hoover
- 1928 - John Joseph Carty
- 1927 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry
- 1926 - Edward Dean Adams
- 1925 - John Frank Stevens
- 1924 - Ambrose Swasey
- 1923 - Guglielmo Marconi
- 1922 - Charles P. E. Schneider
- 1921 - Sir Robert A. Hadfield
- 1920 - Orville Wright
- 1919 - Gen. George W. Goethals
- 1918 - J. Waldo Smith
- 1917 - Henry Marion Howe
- 1916 - Elihu Thompson
- 1915 - James Douglas
- 1914 - John Edson Sweet
- 1913 - No award
- 1912 - Robert Woolston Hunt
- 1911 - Sir William Henry White
- 1910 - Alfred Nobel
- 1909 - Charles Talbot Porter
- 1908 - Thomas Alva Edison
- 1907 - Alexander Graham Bell
- 1906 - George Westinghouse
- 1905 - Lord Kelvin
- 1904 - No award
- 1903 - No award
- 1902 - John Fritz
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