Frank P. Brown Medal

The Frank P. Brown Medal was formerly awarded by the Franklin Institute for excellence in science, engineering, and structures. It was established by the 1938 will of Franklin Pierce Brown, a member of the Master Plumbers Association. The designer of the medal was Walker Kirtland Hancock.

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 1955 – Charles S. Leopold Engineering 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 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 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 1988 - Marvin A. Mass Engineering 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.

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