The William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal was first awarded in 1927 and recognizes "distinguished achievement in mining other than coal". The award is funded by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and named for William Lawrence Saunders.[1][2]
Winners edit
- 2022 - Joseph Dick
- 2019 - Timothy D. Arnold
- 2018 - John D. Wiebmer
- 2017 - Phillips S. Baker, Jr.
- 2016 - Ronald L. Parratt
- 2015 - William M. Zisch
- 2014 - Timothy J. Haddon
- 2013 - Ronald Thiessen
- 2012 - Ron Guill
- 2011 - Harry F. Cougher
- 2010 - Douglas B. Silver
- 2009 - Patrick J. Ryan (engineer)
- 2008 - Stanley Dempsey
- 2006 - James L. Madson
- 2005 - F. Steven Mooney
- 2004 - Paul C. Jones (engineer)
- 2003 - Thomas J. O'Neil
- 2002 - Robert W. Schafer
- 2001 - Richard T. Moolick
- 2000 - Robert N. Hickman
- 1998 - Donald Vester Fites (born 1934) [3]
- 1997 - Hugo T. Dummett
- 1996 - Leonard Harris (engineer)
- 1995 - J. Burgess Winter
- 1994 - T. Peter Philip
- 1993 - Kenneth J. Barr
- 1992 - Philip C. Walsh
- 1991 - G. Frank Joklik
- 1990 - Milton H. Ward
- 1989 - Richard J. Stoehr
- 1988 - Roy Woodall
- 1987 - Charles L. Pillar
- 1986 - Richard L. Brittain
- 1984 - John C. Kinnear, Jr.
- 1983 - Sir Frank Espie
- 1982 - John Towers (engineer)
- 1980 - James S. Westwater
- 1979 - Henry Thomas Mudd (1913-1990)
- 1978 - Russell H. Bennett
- 1977 - Frank Coolbaugh
- 1975 - Charles Dixon Clarke
- 1974 - H. Myles Jacob
- 1972 - Stanley M. Jarrett
- 1970 - Elmer A. Jones
- 1968 - Charles M. Brinckerhoff
- 1967 - Ralph Douglas Parker
- 1966 - Wesley P. Goss
- 1965 - Francis Cameron (engineer)
- 1964 - Walter C. Lawson (engineer)
- 1963 - Edward Ignatius Renouard
- 1962 - Joseph Hugh Reid
- 1961 - Marcus David Banghart
- 1960 - Robert J. Linney
- 1959 - John Ballantine Knaebel
- 1958 - William Jesse Coulter
- 1956 - Louis Buchman
- 1954 - Simeon Stansifer Clarke
- 1951 - Clyde Evarts Weed
- 1950 - Howard Nicholas Eavenson
- 1949 - Stanly Alexander Easton
- 1947 - LeRoy Salsich
- 1946 - Fred Searls, Jr.
- 1944 - George Bates Harrington
- 1941 - Herman C. Bellinger
- 1939 - Louis S. Cates (18811959)[4]
- 1937 - Erskine Ramsay (1864-1953)
- 1936 - Clinton H. Crane
- 1935 - James MacNaughton (engineer)
- 1934 - Pope Yeatman
- 1933 - Walter Hull Aldridge
- 1932 - Frederick Worthen Bradley
- 1930 - Daniel Cowan Jackling (1869–1956)
- 1929 - John Hays Hammond (1855–1936)
- 1928 - Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
- 1927 - David William Brunton
See also edit
Footnotes edit
- ^ "W. L. Saunders Dies In Canary Islands. Chairman of the Ingersoll-Rand Company Stricken at the Age of 74". New York Times. June 26, 1931. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "The William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal". American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
- ^ "Donald V. Fites". The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
- ^ "Louis S. Cates". National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum. Retrieved February 1, 2020.