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 have been:

ilver Medal

=Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography=

* 1993 - Clarence S. Clay
* 1997 - Herman Medwin
* 2004 - D. Vance Holliday

ilver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics

* 1998 - Whitlow W.L. Au
* 2005 - James A. Simmons

ilver Medal in Architectural Acoustics

* 1976 - Theodore J. Schultz

=Silver Medal in Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration=

* 1999 - Ronald T. Verrillo
* 2004 - James G. Miller

ilver Medal in Bioresponse to Vibration

* 1989 - Floyd Dunn

=Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics=

* 1974 - Harry F. Olson
* 1976 - Hugh S. Knowles
* 1978 - Benjamin B. Bauer
* 1982 - Per Vilhelm Bruel
* 1984 - Vincent Salmon
* 1986 - Albert G. Bodine
* 1989 - Joshua E. Greenspon
* 1992 - Alan Powell
* 1995 - James E. West
* 1998 - Richard H. Lyon
* 2004 - John V. Bouyoucos

ilver Medal in Musical Acoustics

* 1981 - Carleen M. Hutchins
* 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

ilver 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

Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics

* 1975 - Isadore Rudnick
* 1977 - Martin Greenspan
* 1979 - Herbert J. McSkimin
* 1985 - David T. Blackstock
* 1988 - Mark 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

ilver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

* 1977 - Lloyd A. Jeffress
* 1981 - Ernest Glen Wever
* 1987 - Eberhard Zwicker
* 1990 - David M. Green
* 1994 - Nathaniel I. Durlach
* 2001 - Neal F. Viemeister
* 2002 - Brian C. J. Moore
* 2004 - H. Steven Colburn
* 2006 – William A. Yost

ilver 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
* 2005 - Katherine S. Harris

Interdisciplinary Silver Medal

If the nomination is made by two or more technical committees the Silver Medal is known as the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal. Recipients include
* 1983 - Eugen J. Skudrzyk (Theoretical and Applied Acoustics)
* 1990 - Wesley L. Nyborg (Physical Acoustics and Bioresponse to Vibration)
* 1991 - W. Dixon Ward (Psychological andPhysiological Acoustics, Musical Acoustics, and Noise)
* 1992 - Victor C. Anderson (Underwater Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
* 1993 - Steven L. Garrett (Physical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
* 1997 - Gerhard M. Sessler (Engineering Acoustics and Physical Acoustics)
* 1998 - David E. Weston (Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics)
* 1999 - Jens P. Blauert (Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Architectural Acoustics and
* 2000 - Lawrence A. Crum (Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration)
* 2001 - William M. Hartmann (Musical Acoustics, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Architectural Acoustics)
* 2002 - Arthur B. Baggeroer Underwater Acoustics, Acoustical Oceanography and Signal Processing in Acoustics)
* 2004 - David Lubman (Silver Medal in Architectural Acoustics and Noise)
* 2005 - Gilles A. Daigle (Noise and Physical Acoustics)
* 2006 - Mathias Fink (Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration/Acoustical Oceanography)