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Frank P. Brown Medal

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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

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  • Franklin Institute awards
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  • Awards disestablished in 1988
  • Awards established in 1941

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Key concepts

  • Franklin Institute1
  • Walker Hancock1
  • Edmund Germer2
  • Willis Haviland Carrier1
  • Duff Abrams1
  • Albert Kahn (architect)1
  • Westinghouse Lamp Plant1
  • Gilmore David Clarke1
  • Karl Terzaghi1
  • Stark Street Bridge1

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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 Engineering4
  • 1955 – Charles S. Leopold Engineering5
  • 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 789
  • 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. 1Willis Haviland Carrier 1941 Engineering Brown
  2. 2Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Volumes 45-47 Boston Society of Civil Engineers
  3. 3MedalArtists.com
  4. 4Oral-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. 5Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 Gail Cooper; JHU Press, 2002; 227 pages; page 171 and notes,
  6. 6Youtz, Philip Newell, 1895-1972 Architect, curator, inventor and educator
  7. 7Development of heat pipes for foundations in Arctic regions
  8. 8"US Patent. Permafrost structural support with heat pipe stabilization, Inventor. E. Waters". .
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  • 9"Elmer Dale Waters". Sunset Gardens Obituaries.
  • 10Introduction of Ben C. Gerwick Jr., Recipient of the 2001 Ralph B. Peck Award American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 11Eye on People Jewish Post, "He received the prestigious Franklin Pierce Brown Medal for scientific achievement in 1989"
  • 12"Search Laureates". The Franklin Institute Awards.
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