ASA Silver Medal
The ASA Silver Medal is an award presented by the Acoustical Society of America to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles or through research accomplishments in acoustics. The medal is awarded in a number of categories depending on the technical committee responsible for making the nomination.
Recipients of the medal are listed below.
Silver Medal
Source:Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography">Acoustical oceanography">Acoustical Oceanography
- 1993 - Clarence S. Clay
- 1997 - Herman Medwin
- 2004 - D. Vance Holliday
- 2009 - Robert C. Spindel
Silver Medal in Animal [Bioacoustics]
- 1998 - Whitlow W.L. Au
- 2005 - James A. Simmons
- 2012 - Richard R. Fay
Silver Medal in [Architectural Acoustics]
- 1976 - Theodore J. Schultz
Silver Medal in Biomedical Acoustics
- 2013 - Kullervo H. Hynynen – for contributions to the science and the clinical applications of therapeutic ultrasound.
Silver Medal in Biomedical">Biomedical engineering">Biomedical [Ultrasound]/Bioresponse">Bioacoustics">Bioresponse to [Vibration]
- 1999 - Ronald T. Verrillo
- 2004 - James G. Miller
Silver Medal in Bioresponse to Vibration
- 1989 - Floyd Dunn
Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics">acoustical engineering">Engineering Acoustics
- 1974 - Harry F. Olson - for his innovative and lasting contributions in microphones, loudspeakers, sound reproduction, and electronic music, his many publications, and his constructive editing.
- 1976 - Hugh S. Knowles - for leadership, innovation, vision in the application of acoustical science and technology in industry and government and, in particular, for contributions to the advancement of technology for hearing improvement.
- 1978 - Benjamin B. Bauer - for his contributions to engineering acoustics, particularly in the development of techniques and devices used to pick up, record, and reproduce sound.
- 1982 - Per Vilhelm Bruel - for significant contributions in sound level instrumentation and precision measurement, and for notable leadership in international standards in acoustics.
- 1984 - Vincent Salmon - for contributions in the design of horns and the control of noise and vibration.
- 1986 - Albert G. Bodine - for his ingenuity in developing sonic vibratory devices of great technological importance.
- 1989 - Joshua E. Greenspon - for his leadership and contributions to the solution of underwater radiation and scattering problems.
- 1992 - Alan Powell - for leadership in research in the silencing of ship noise and for fundamental contributions to aeroacoustics.
- 1995 - James E. West - for developing and optimizing polymer electret transducers.
- 1998 - Richard H. Lyon - for contributions to noise reduction and products through design and to Statistical Energy Analysis.
- 2001 - Ilene Busch-Vishniac - for development of novel electret microphones and of micro-electro-mechanical sensors and positioners.
- 2004 - John V. Bouyoucos - for the invention and development of hydraulically powered acoustic amplifiers for underwater use.
- 2012 - Gary W. Elko - for application of digital signal processing to microphone arrays for airborne sound
- 2015 - John L. Butler – for advancing the field of acoustic transducer and transducer design.
- 2019 - Thomas B. Gabrielson - for contributions to the understanding of novel transducers and their intrinsic limitations imposed by thermal and quantum physics.
Silver Medal in [Musical Acoustics]
- 1981 - Carleen M. Hutchins - for outstanding contributions and leadership in the development of a new violin family of musical instruments, and for leadership in the acoustical research on bowed string musical instruments.
- 1984 - Arthur H. Benade
- 1986 - John C. Backus
- 1989 - Max V. Matthews
- 1992 - Thomas D. Rossing
- 1998 - Neville H. Fletcher
- 2003 - Johan E.F. Sundberg
- 2008 - Gabriel Weinreich
- 2013 - William J. Strong
Silver Medal in [Noise]
- 1978 - Harvey H. Hubbard
- 1981 - Henning E. von Gierke
- 1984 - William W. Lang
- 1986 - Tony F. W. Embleton
- 1988 - William J. Galloway
- 1992 - George C. Maling, Jr.
- 1994 - Kenneth M. Eldred
- 1999 - Larry H. Royster
- 2002 - Louis C. Sutherland
- 2006 – Alan H. Marsh
- 2009 - Michael R. Stinson
- 2012 - Keith Attenborough
- 2020 - Scott D. Sommerfeldt
Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics">Acoustics#Divisions of acoustics">Physical Acoustics
- 1975 - Isadore Rudnick
- 1977 - Martin Greenspan
- 1979 - Herbert J. McSkimin
- 1985 - David T. Blackstock
- 1988 - Mack A. Breazeale
- 1991 - Allan D. Pierce
- 1994 - Julian D. Maynard
- 1997 - Robert E. Apfel
- 2000 - Gregory W. Swift
- 2003 - Philip L. Marston
- 2006 – Henry E. Bass
- 2008 - Peter J. Westervelt
- 2012 - Andrea Prosperetti - for contributions to bubble dynamics and multiphase flow.
Silver Medal in [Psychological] and [Physiological] [Acoustics]
- 1977 - Lloyd A. Jeffress - for extensive contributions in psychoacoustics, particularly binaural hearing, and for the example he has set as a teacher and scholar.
- 1981 - Ernest Glen Wever - for establishing the field of cochlear electrophysiology and advancing knowledge of middle and inner ear function.
- 1987 - Eberhard Zwicker - for prolific contributions to the understanding of fundamental auditory properties and for environmental, technological and clinical applications.
- 1990 - David M. Green - for outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to hearing research and its methodology.
- 1994 - Nathaniel I. Durlach - for pioneering contributions to research concerning binaural hearing, intensity perception, hearing aids, tactile aids, and virtual reality.
- 2001 - Neal F. Viemeister - for contributions to the understanding of temporal and intensive aspects of hearing.
- 2002 - Brian C. J. Moore - for contributions to understanding human auditory perception, especially the perceptual consequences of peripheral frequency analysis in normal and impaired listeners.
- 2004 - H. Steven Colburn - for contributions to psychological and physiological aspects of binaural hearing.
- 2006 – William A. Yost - for contributions to understanding pitch perception, sound source localization, and auditory processing of complex sounds
- 2015 – Roy D. Patterson – for contributions to understanding pitch and timbre perception, and for computational modeling of auditory representations.
Silver Medal in Signal Processing in Acoustics
- 2010 - Edmund J. Sullivan
- 2011 - Theodore G. Birdsall
- 2015 – Brian G. Ferguson – For contributions to in-air and in-water acoustic classification, localization, and tracking
Silver Medal in [Speech Communication]
- 1975 - Franklin S. Cooper
- 1980 - Gunnar Fant
- 1983 - Kenneth N. Stevens
- 1987 - Dennis H. Klatt
- 1991 - Arthur S. House
- 1994 - Peter Ladefoged
- 1997 - Patricia K. Kuhl - for contributions to the understanding of innate and learned aspects of speech perception and production.
- 2005 - Katherine S. Harris - for research and leadership in speech production.
- 2007 - Ingo R. Titze
- 2009 - Winifred Strange - for contributions to understanding speech perception.
- 2010 - David B. Pisoni
- 2014 - Sheila E. Blumstein - for contributions to understanding how acoustic signals are transformed into linguistic representations
- 2015 – John J. Ohala – for advancing the understanding of speech production and perception and applying phonetic principles to the study of spoken language change over time
Interdisciplinary Silver Medal
- 1983 - Eugen J. Skudrzyk - For his extensive contributions to the advancement of acoustics through his tireless multifaceted activities as author, researcher, and teacher.
- 1990 - Wesley L. Nyborg - For technical contributions in the application of physical acoustics to biology and medicine.
- 1991 - W. Dixon Ward - For furthering the knowledge of auditory perception in psychological and musical acoustics and increasing the understanding of the etiology of noise-induced hearing loss.
- 1992 - Victor C. Anderson - For pioneering underwater sound research in ambient noise and for the invention and engineering development of the delay time compression correlator and digital multibeam steering sonar.
- 1993 - Steven L. Garrett - For leadership in transferring fundamental concepts of fiber optics and thermoacoustics into practical applications.
- 1997 - Gerhard M. Sessler - For contributions to electret transducers and the understanding of sound propagation in gases.
- 1998 - David E. Weston - For seminal work on the physics of explosive sources, scattering, and the horizontal refraction of sound.
- 1999 - Jens P. Blauert - For contributions to sound localization, concert hall acoustics, signal processing, and acoustics standards.
- 2000 - Lawrence A. Crum - For advancing the understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological effects of acoustic cavitation and of high-intensity ultrasound.
- 2001 - William M. Hartmann - For research and education in psychological and physiological acoustics, architectural acoustics, musical acoustics, and signal processing.
- 2002 - Arthur B. Baggeroer Underwater Acoustics, Acoustical Oceanography and Signal Processing in Acoustics) - For applications of model-based signal processing to underwater acoustics and for contributions to Arctic acoustics.
- 2004 - David Lubman - For work in noise and standards and for contributions to architectural and archeological acoustics.
- 2005 - Gilles A. Daigle - For contributions to understanding the effects of micrometeorology, topography, and ground properties on outdoor sound propagation.
- 2006 - Mathias Fink - For contributions to the understanding of time reversal acoustics.
- 2007 - Edwin L. Carstensen - For contributions to the physics of biomedical ultrasound.
- 2008 - James V. Candy - For contributions to signal processing and underwater acoustics.
- 2010 - Ronald A. Roy - For contributions to the fields of biomedical ultrasound and nonlinear bubble dynamics.
- 2011 - James E. Barger - For the development of technologies in source and receiver design and signal processing.
- 2013 - Timothy G. Leighton - For contributions to physical acoustics, biomedical ultrasound, sonochemistry, and acoustical oceanography.
- 2014 - Mark F. Hamilton - For contributions to nonlinear acoustics and biomedical ultrasound.
- 2015 - Henry Cox - For fundamental and practical contributions to array signal processing, underwater acoustics, and sonar systems engineering.
- 2016 - Armen Sarvazyan - for contributions to ultrasound imaging and its applications.
- 2017 - Blake S. Wilson – for contributions to the development and adoption of cochlear implants.
- 2018 - Kenneth S. Suslick – for contributions to the acoustics of sonochemistry.
- 2019 - Barbara Shinn-Cunningham' - for contributions to understanding the perceptual, cognitive, and neural bases of speech perception in complex acoustic environments.''