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Harry C. Bigglestone Award

The Harry C. Bigglestone Award is given annually to the paper appearing in Fire Technology that best represents excellence in the communication of fire protection concepts. Accompanying this award is a US$2,000 cash prize from the Fire Protection Research Foundation. [6]

It is named to honour the memory of Harry C. Bigglestone, who served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation and chair of the NFPA Committee on Central Station Signaling Systems and who was a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. [7]

Recipients

Source: [6]

See also

Notes

  1. Fire Technology website
  2. Fire Technology at the National Fire Protection Agency website
  3. "Fire Technology". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  4. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Fire Technology". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  5. "Fire Technology". www.scimagojr.com. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  6. 1 2 "The Harry C. Bigglestone Award". www.nfpa.org. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  7. Harry C. Bigglestone Award website

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