R. Tom Sawyer Award
The R. Tom Sawyer Award is bestowed on an individual who has made important contributions to advance the purpose of the Gas Turbine Industry and to the International Gas Turbine Institute over a substantial period of time. The contribution may be in any area of institute activity but must be marked by sustained forthright efforts.
The award was established in 1972 to honor R. Tom Sawyer who, for over four decades, toiled zealously to advance gas turbine technology in all of its aspects.
Submit Nomination Here
Nomination Instructions
Nomination Tips
Form of Award: | $1000, plaque and certificate |
Administrative Responsibility: | International Gas Turbine Institute |
Limitation(s): | None |
Nomination Deadline: | August 15 |
E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
R. Tom Sawyer Awardees
2024 | Kenneth C. Hall |
2023 | Karen A. Thole |
2022 | Timothy C. Lieuwen |
2021 | Robert E. Kielb |
2020 | Sunao Aoki |
2019 | Om P. Sharma |
2018 | Aspi R. Wadia |
2017 | Alan H. Epstein |
2016 | Nicholas Cumpsty |
2015 | Lee S. Langston |
2014 | Reza S. Abhari |
2013 | Anthony J. Strazisar |
2012 | David C. Wisler |
2011 | Dilip R. Ballal |
2010 | Herbert Jericha |
2009 | Michael G. Dunn |
2008 | Theodore H. Okiishi |
2007 | John Douglas Denton |
2006 | Erio Benvenuti |
2005 | Edward M. Greitzer |
2004 | Herb I.H. Saravanamuttoo |
2003 | Sigmar Wittig |
2002 | Philip C. Ruffles |
2001 | Max Bentele |
2000 | Martin C. Hemsworth |
1999 | Donald E. Bently |
1998 | Donald W. Bahr |
1997 | John H. Horlock |
1996 | Donald D. Hill |
1995 | Geoffrey L. Wilde. |
1994 | Brian H. Rowe |
1993 | Arthur J. Wennerstrom |
1992 | William R. Hawthorne |
1991 | Gerhard Neumann |
1990 | Hans J.P. von Ohain |
1989 | Edward S. Wright |
1988 | Bernard L. Koff |
1987 | Leroy H. Smith, Jr. |
1986 | Elvie L. Smith |
1985 | Anselm Franz |
1984 | Arthur H. Lefebvre |
1983 | Sven-Olof Kronogard |
1982 | R. Noel Penny |
1981 | Thomas E. Stott, Jr. |
1980 | Ralph L. Boyer |
1979 | Sam B. Williams |
1978 | Sir Frank Whittle |
1977 | Alexander L. London |
1976 | Curt Keller |
1975 | Bruce O. Buckland |
1974 | Waheeb Rizk |
1973 | John W. Sawyer |
1972 | R. Tom Sawyer |