Frank P. Brown Medal

The Frank P. Brown Medal was formerly awarded by the Franklin Institute for excellence in science, engineering, and structures. ^[1] It was established by the 1938 will of Franklin Pierce Brown, a member of the Master Plumbers Association. ^[2]

The designer of the medal was Walker Kirtland Hancock. ^[3]

Laureates

• 1941 – Willis Haviland Carrier Engineering
• 1942 – Duff Andrew Abrams Engineering
• 1943 – Albert Kahn Engineering
• 1944 – Harvey Clayton Rentschler Engineering
• 1945 – David Gilmore Clarke Engineering
• 1946 – Karl Terzaghi Earth Science
• 1947 – Karl P. Billner Engineering
• 1950 – Gustave Magnel Engineering
• 1950 – Eugene Freyssinet Engineering
• 1951 – Samuel Arnold Greeley Civil Engineering
• 1952 – Fred N. Severud Engineering
• 1953 – Frank Lloyd Wright Engineering
• 1954 – Edmund Germer Engineering
• 1954 – Hans J. Spanner Engineering
• 1954 – Humboldt W. Leverenz Engineering ^[4]
• 1955 – Charles S. Leopold Engineering ^[5]
• 1956 – Robert G. Letourneau Engineering
• 1957 - Pier Luigi Nervi Engineering
• 1958 - Charles Milton Spofford Engineering (author of The Theory of Structures 1915)
• 1959 - Hardy Cross Engineering
• 1960 - Richard Buckminster Fuller Engineering
• 1961 - Charles Edouard Jeanneret LeCorbusier Engineering
• 1962 - Edmund Norwood Bacon Civil Engineering
• 1964 - Louis I. Kahn Engineering
• 1965 - William Jaird Levitt Engineering
• 1966 - Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Engineering
• 1967 - Carl Koch (architect) Engineering
• 1968 - Philip Newell Youtz Engineering ^[6]
• 1970 - Trevor Lloyd Wadley Engineering
• 1971 - Henry Lee Willet Engineering
• 1974 - Hans Liebherr Engineering
• 1975 - Public Building Services of U.S. Govt Engineering
• 1976 - E. Dale Waters Engineering ^{[7] [8] [9]}
• 1978 - Henry J. Degenkolb Engineering
• 1982 - Vincent G. Kling Engineering
• 1982 - Lynn S. Beedle Engineering
• 1987 - Paul Weidlinger Engineering
• 1988 - Ben C. Gerwick, Jr. Engineering ^[10]
• 1988 - Marvin A. Mass Engineering ^[11]
• 1992 – John W. Fisher Engineering
• 1995 – Jean M. Muller Engineering
• Now dormant as an award. The last Frank P. Brown Medal was awarded in 1995. ^[12]

See also

• List of engineering awards

References

1. Willis Haviland Carrier 1941 Engineering Brown
2. Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Volumes 45-47 Boston Society of Civil Engineers
3. MedalArtists.com
4. Oral-History:Humboldt W. Leverenz "He received the Franklin Institute Brown Medal in 1954 for his contributions to the development of the fluorescent lamp. Head of RCA Laboratories, developed a Periodic Chart of the Elements
5. Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 Gail Cooper; JHU Press, 2002 ;227 pages; page 171 and notes,
6. Youtz, Philip Newell, 1895-1972 Architect, curator, inventor and educator
7. Development of heat pipes for foundations in Arctic regions
8. "US Patent. Permafrost structural support with heat pipe stabilization, Inventor. E. Waters". patents.google.com.
9. "Elmer Dale Waters". Sunset Gardens Obituaries.
10. Introduction of Ben C. Gerwick Jr., Recipient of the 2001 Ralph B. Peck Award American Society of Civil Engineers
11. Eye on People Jewish Post, "He received the prestigious Franklin Pierce Brown Medal for scientific achievement in 1989"
12. "Search Laureates". The Franklin Institute Awards.