Pioneer Award Aviation
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The Pioneer Award is selected by the Pioneer Award Committee of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. It has beengiven annually since 1949. The Pioneer Award is awarded to an individual or team for “contributions significant to bringing into systems fall that within the specific areas of interest of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society". The award is given for a contribution(s) that has been made at least twenty (20) years prior to the year of the award, to ensure proper historical perspective.
(P) denotes posthumous award.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient(s) | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Thomas C. Rives | Leadership in the development of aircraft electronics |
| 1950 | L. M. Clements | Electronic Countermeasures |
| 1951 | Harold M. McClelland | “Highways in the Sky”–The forerunner of today's ATC |
| 1952 | A. Hoyt Taylor | Use of (radio) waves for detection of ship traffic (circa 1922) |
| 1953 | David G. C. Luck | Radio direction finding for aircraft and the omnidirectional range |
| 1954 | Francis W. Dunmore | Replacement of radio batteries by AC; radio aids to marine and air navigation; and blind landing system (today’s ILS) |
| 1955 | Lewis M. Hull | Wave propagation to/from aircraft; the Kolster localizer system |
| 1956 | Alfred W. Marriner & Wallace G. Smith | Development facilities for aircraft communications, navigation and traffic control including AACS |
| 1956 | Harry Diamond (P) | Radio aids to navigation; radio range; direction finding; instrumented low approach |
| 1956 | Wayne G. Eaton (P) | Ground and airborne radio equipments |
| 1956 | John W. Greig (P) | Automatic phase comparison direction finding |
| 1956 | Thorp Hiscock (P) | Two-way voice radio for aircraft |
| 1956 | Frederick A. Kolster (P) | Marine radio direction finding; radio compass |
| 1956 | William H. Murphy (P) | Airborne antennas and radio range systems |
| 1956 | John Stone Stone (P) | Radio direction finding (circa 1900) |
| 1957 | Lawrence A. Hyland | Direction finding, altimetry, ignition shielding, and radar |
| 1957 | Alessandro Artom (P) | Directional properties of radio transmission and reception (circa 1905) |
| 1958 | Albert F. Hegenberger & Clayton C. Shangraw | Four-course radio range beacon |
| 1958 | Malcolm P. Hanson (P) | Arctic, Antarctic and transatlantic flight radio communication |
| 1959 | Henri G. Busignies & Francis L. Moseley | Aircraft automatic radio direction finding |
| 1960 | John H. Dellinger | Aircraft approach and landing electronics |
| 1960 | Wilbur L. Webb (P) | Visual “L—R” radio compass |
| 1961 | John Alvin Pierce | Radio navigation systems: Loran, Skywave, RaduX, Omega |
| 1962 | Donald M. Stuart | VHF omni-range (VOR) |
| 1963 | Luis W. Alvarez | Aircraft approach and landing radar |
| 1964 | Ernst Ludwig Kramar | Sonne (Consol) and other instrument landing systems (ILS) |
| 1965 | Andrew Alford | VOR & ILS navigation antennas; the Alford Loop |
| 1966 | Robert J. Dippy | Hyperbolic radio navigation (GEE GEE (navigation) Gee was the code name given to a radio navigation system used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.Different sources record the name as GEE or Gee. The naming supposedly comes from "Grid", so the lower case form is more correct, and is the form used in Drippy's publications. See Drippy 1946.... and LORAN LORAN LORAN is a terrestrial radio navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters in multiple deployment to determine the location and speed of the receiver.... ) |
| 1966 | Otto Scheller (P) | The radio range (circa 1907) |
| 1967 | Lloyd Espenshied & Russell C. Newhouse Russell C. Newhouse Russell Conwell Newhouse made many contributions to the advancement of aviation in a distinguished career running from the late 1920s into the 1970s. He was the Director of the Radar Laboratory for the Bell Telephone Laboratoriesfrom 1958 to 1968.... |
Frequency modulated radio altimeters |
| 1968 | William J. Tull | Aircraft ground speed using doppler |
| 1969 | William J. O’Brien & Harvey F. Schwarz | DECCA (hyperbolic) navigation |
| 1970 | Paul G. Hansel | Doppler VOR |
| 1971 | Robert L. Frank & Winslow Palmer | LORAN-C navigation |
| 1972 | Myron H. Nichols | Time-division multiplex telemetry |
| 1973 | Frederic Calland Williams Frederic Calland Williams Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS , known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer.... |
Secondary radar beacon design |
| 1973 | Bertram Vivian Bowden | Secondary radar system development |
| 1973 | Kenneth Ernest Harris (P) | Air traffic control secondary radar |
| 1974 | George B. Litchford & Joseph Lyman | Precision omnidirectional microwave beacons |
| 1975 | Ivan A. Getting | Microwave radar |
| 1976 | Spencer Kellogg II | Zero reader flight display |
| 1977 | Robert M. Page | Monostatic radar |
| 1978 | Charles S. Draper | Inertial technology |
| 1979 | Peter R. Murray | Pilotless aircraft |
| 1980 | Sven H. Dodington | Distance measuring equipment |
| 1981 | Louis A. deRosa (P), Mortimer Rogoff, Paul E. Green, Jr. & Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr. | Spread-spectrum communications |
| > Arthur A. Collins | Voice and data radio communications and electronics | |
| 1983 | Allan Ashley, Joseph E. Herrmann & James S. Perry | Voice and data radio communications and electronics |
| 1984 | Leroy C. Perkins, Harry B. Smith & David H. Mooney | High-repetition-rate airborne pulse-doppler radar |
| 1985 | Carl A. Wiley | Synthetic aperture radar |
| 1986 | William H. Guier, George C. Weiffenbach, Richard B. Kershner (P), & Frank T. McClure (P) | Transit satellite navigation |
| 1987 | Rudolph A. Stampfl & Peter H. Werenfels | Weather satellite automatic picturetransmission |
| 1988 | Charles E. Cook & William M. Siebert | Radar pulse compression |
| 1989 | Frederick H. Battle, Jr., Abraham Tatz & Joseph E. Woodward | Microwave landing systems |
| 1990 | Jay W. Forrester & Robert R. Everett | The Whirlwind computer |
| 1991 | Fred M. Staudaher, Melvin Labitt & Frank R. Dickey, Jr. | Airborne moving-target radars |
| 1992 | William C. Eppers | Laser systems |
| 1993 | William F. Bahret | Stealth technology |
| 1994 | Bradford W. Parkinson | Global Positioning System (GPS) |
| 1995 | Robert E. Cowdery & William A. Skillman | Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) |
| 1996 | Richard B. Marsten | Direct Broadcast Satellites |
| 1997 | John H. Bryant (P), James Cheal & Vincent J. McHenry | Subminiature Type A (SMA RF) coax connectors |
| 1998 | John N. Entzminger, Charles A. Fowler & William J. Kenneally | Concepts, ideas & designs leading to JointSTARS |
| 1999 | Tom M. Hyltin & Britton T. Vincent, Jr. | Monolithic microwave integrated circuits & solid-state phased array radar |
| 2000 | Herbert G. Weiss | Space Surveillance Radar Development |
| 2001 | Milton E. Radant | Airborne Radar Signal Processing |
| 2002 | Joseph A. Meyer | Conceptualization of the Personal Tracking System (PTS) |
(P) denotes posthumous award.