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Award Recipients

1990 1992

Walker Lee Cisler Medal

Walker Lee Cisler

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Glenn F. Knoll

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (First Place)
Mississippi State University Second Place
University of Florida (Second Place)
Kansas State University (Honorable Mention)
University of Lowell (Honorable Mention)
University of Maryland (Honorable Mention)
University of Missouri-Columbia (Honorable Mention)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Honorable Mention)

Ray Goertz Award (RRSD)

Robert W. Wiesener

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Sara A. Morabito

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Glenn E. Lucas

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Long Island (Meritorious, Small)
Eastern Carolinas (Meritorious, Large)
Austria (Meritorious, International)
Eastern Carolinas (Best Membership, Best Meetings and Programs)
Eastern Washington (Best Public Information and Education)
Idaho (Best Section Management)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

Graham M. Leitch (Philadelphia Electric Company
Limerick Generating Station)
W. T. Ullrich (Tennessee Valley Authority
Browns Ferry Unit 3 Restart)

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Ricardo C. DeBarros

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant
Belgian Reactor 3 (BR3)
Dresden Nuclear Station Unit 1
Room 307, Gilman Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
NS Savannah at Patriots Point
ORNL's Graphite Reactor
Penn State Breazeale Reactor

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Bernice E. Paige

Presidential Citations

Gregory R. Choppin
Nuclear Safety Journal
Sammuel Untermyer II

Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (RPSD)

David K. Trubey

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

William S. Lee

Special Award

H. "Peter" Planchon
John I. Sackett

Standards Service Award

David K. Trubey

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University off Tennessee - Knoxville
Benan Basoglu, Agus Cahyono, Michael Corum, Andreas Ikonomopoulos, Thomas Radcliff, Michael Travis

Undergraduate

Arizona State University
Gerald Hunter, Mary Inman, Shawn Pautz

Honorable Mention - Graduate

University of Texas, Austin
Steven Manson, Arnold Preece

Honorable Mention - Undergraduate

University of New Mexico
Brian Hunt, Michael Lake, Julie Minton, Ned Alan Morley

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Hans K. Fauske

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Nikolai G. Basov
Heinrich Hora
John H. Nuckolls
Chiyoe Yamanaka

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

Francois X. Cogne

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Alvin M. Weinberg

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Frank Bevilacqua

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