Shewhart Medal


The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality for ...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control, especially through the development to its theory, principles, and techniques. The first medal was awarded in 1948.
YearMedalistYearMedalistYearMedalist
1948Leslie E. Simon1974Benjamin Epstein1999James M. Lucas
1949Harold F. Dodge1975William R. Pabst, Jr.2000John A. Cornell
1950Martin A. Brumbaugh1976John W. Tukey2001Søren Bisgaard
1951George D. Edwards1977Albert H. Bowker2002William H. Woodall
1952Eugene L. Grant1978Lloyd S. Nelson2003Wayne B. Nelson
1953Harry G. Romig1979Hugo C. Hamaker2004Douglas M. Hawkins
1954Edwin G. Olds1980John Mandel2005Norman Draper
1955W. Edwards Deming1981Richard A. Freund2006William Q. Meeker
1956Mason E. Wescott1982Kaoru Ishikawa2007C.F. Jeff Wu
1957Cecil C. Craig1983Edward G. Schilling2008Roger W. Hoerl
1958Irving W. Burr1984Norman L. Johnson2009David W. Bacon
1959Paul S. Olmstead1985Ronald D. Snee2010G. Geoffrey Vining
1960Ellis R. Ott1986Donald W. Marquardt2011Jerald Lawless
1961Leonard H. C. Tippett1987Fred Leone2012Robert L. Mason
1962Lloyd A. Knowler1988Harrison M. Wadsworth2013G. Geoffrey Vining
1964Acheson J. Duncan1989Dorian Shainin2014Bovas Abraham
1965Paul C. Clifford1990William J. Hill2015Dennis K.J. Lin
1966Edward P. Coleman1991Cuthbert Daniel2016Connie M. Borror
1967Charles A. Bicking1992Gerald J. Hahn2017David M. Steinberg
1968George E.P. Box1993Harry Smith, Jr.2018Christine Anderson-Cook
1969W.J. Youden1994Brian L. Joiner2019Ronald J. M. M. Does
1970J. Stuart Hunter1995Genichi Taguchi2020Necip Doganaksoy
1971Frank E. Grubbs1996Douglas C. Montgomery--
1972Gerald J. Lieberman1997John F. MacGregor--
1973Sebastian B. Littauer1998Raymond H. Myers--