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
- 2024 – Alan C. Bovik
- 2023 – Asad M. Madni
- 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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