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Award Recipients

1984 1986

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

James J. Duderstadt

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

University of Arizona (First Place)
University of Florida (First Place)
Ohio State University (First Place)
Kansas State University (Honorable Mention)
University of Lowell (Honorable Mention)
University of Maryland (Honorable Mention)

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Michael R. Fox

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Theodore M. Besmann

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Latin America (Best Overall, Large)
Missouri-Kansas (Best Overall, Small)
Chicago (Membership Promotion, Meetings and Program)
Los Angeles (Membership Promotion)
Atlanta (Membership Promotion)
Northeastern (Membership Promotion)
Eastern Carolinas (Meetings and Programs)
Idaho (Meetings and Programs)
Virginia (Management)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

Charles R. Dietz (Carolina Power and Light Co. Brunswick Nuclear Project)
Team of: Roland N. Smith (Argonne National Laboratory
ID) and William H. Perry (EBR II)
Team of: Efford H. Pierce (Yankee Atomic Electric Co.)
Edward A. Walsh
Edwin R. Taylor
Donald B. Vassar
Karl E. Jurentkuff

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Jose March-Leuba

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Ames Laboratory Uranium Purification
Chicago Pile 1
Experimental Breeder Reactor-I
Isotopes Development Laboratory
Lady Godiva
Sodium Reactor Experiment
TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) MARK I
Vallecitos Nuclear Center
Yankee Nuclear Power Station

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

John H. Hubbell

Seaborg Medal

Manson Benedict

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Lord Walter Marshall of Goring

Special Award

Milton Levenson
William R. Stratton
Edward Warman

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University of Tennessee
Keith E. Holbert, Mohammed H. Abu-Shehadeh, Jose A. Pereyra

Undergraduate

University of Tennessee
Michael W. Roberts, Ahmed M. Bakhsh, Richard W. Boyd, Phyllis A. Mincy, Steven D. Whaley, Jotty R. Winesette

Honorable Mention - Graduate

Oregon State University
Jeffrey W. Samuels, Steven K. Chidester, Beato T. Cheng

Honorable Mention - Undergraduate

Georgia Institute of Technology
David Hammond, Jeffrey Jerrell, Barbara Wofford, Lee Keller

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

R. T. Lahey, Jr.

Theos J. ("Tommy") Thompson Award For Reactor Safety (NISD)

Robert E. Henry

Walter H. Zinn Medal

William G. Morrison

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