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The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart

Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart March 18, 1891 - March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.W...

, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality

American Society for Quality

American Society for Quality , formerly known as American Society for Quality Control , is a knowledge-based global community of quality control experts, with nearly 85,000 members dedicated to the promotion and advancement of quality tools, principles, and practices in their workplaces and in...

for ...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control
Quality control
Quality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects:...

, especially through the development to its theory, principles, and techniques. The first medal was awarded in 1948.

**Medalists**
Year	Medalist	Year	Medalist	Year	Medalist
1948	Leslie E. Simon	1974	Benjamin Epstein	1999	James M. Lucas
1949	Harold F. Dodge Harold F. Dodge Harold French Dodge was one of the principal architects of the science of statistical quality control...	1975	William R. Pabst, Jr.	2000	John A. Cornell
1950	Martin A. Brumbaugh	1976	John W. Tukey	2001	Søren Bisgaard
1951	George D. Edwards	1977	Albert H. Bowker	2002	William H. Woodall William H. Woodall William H. Woodall was a civilian employee of the Union Army during the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Namozine Church. He is one of only a handful of civilians to have received the medal.Born in...
1952	Eugene L. Grant	1978	Lloyd S. Nelson	2003	Wayne B. Nelson
1953	Harry G. Romig	1979	Hugo C. Hamaker H. C. Hamaker Hugo Christiaan Hamaker was a Dutch scientist, who was responsible for the Hamaker theory which explains the van der Waals forces between objects larger than molecules. His 1937 paper was heavily cited.He completed his doctorate at the Universiteit Utrecht in 1934...	2004	Douglas M. Hawkins
1954	Edwin G. Olds	1980	John Mandel John Mandel John Mandel is an American visual artist and one of the first photorealists to emerge in New York. His figurative oil and acrylic paintings, often monochromatic, were a departure from ordinary subject depiction. His works involved movement in compressed space...	2005	Norman Draper
1955	W. Edwards Deming W. Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...	1981	Richard A. Freund	2006	William Q. Meeker
1956	Mason E. Wescott	1982	Kaoru Ishikawa Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese university professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram that is used in the analysis of industrial process.- Biography :...	2007	C.F. Jeff Wu C.F. Jeff Wu C.F. Jeff Wu is a statistician known for his work on the convergence of the EM algorithm,resampling methods like bootstrap and jackknife, design of experiments, and robust parameter design .- Notes and references :- Sources and links :...
1957	Cecil C. Craig	1983	Edward G. Schilling	2008	Roger W. Hoerl
1958	Irving W. Burr	1984	Norman L. Johnson	2009	David W. Bacon
1959	Paul S. Olmstead	1985	Ronald D. Snee
1960	Ellis R. Ott	1986	Donald W. Marquardt Donald Marquardt Donald W. Marquardt was an American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg–Marquardt nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm....
1961	Leonard H. C. Tippett Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett was an English physicist and statistician.Born in London, Tippett graduated in physics in the early 1920s at Imperial College. He studied for his Master of Science in statistics under Professor Karl Pearson at the Galton Laboratory, University College London and R. A....	1987	Fred Leone
1962	Lloyd A. Knowler	1988	Harrison M. Wadsworth
1964	Acheson J. Duncan Acheson J. Duncan Acheson Johnston Duncan was a 20th century statistician and an acknowledged authority in the field of quality control....	1989	Dorian Shainin Dorian Shainin Dorian Shainin was an influential American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, author, and college professor most notable for his contributions in the fields of industrial problem solving, product reliability, and quality engineering, particularly the creation and development of the “Red X”...
1965	Paul C. Clifford	1990	William J. Hill
1966	Edward P. Coleman	1991	Cuthbert Daniel
1967	Charles A. Bicking	1992	Gerald J. Hahn
1968	George E.P. Box	1993	Harry Smith, Jr.
1969	W.J. Youden	1994	Brian L. Joiner
1970	J. Stuart Hunter	1995	Genichi Taguchi Genichi Taguchi is an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods...
1971	Frank E. Grubbs	1996	Douglas C. Montgomery
1972	Gerald J. Lieberman	1997	John F. MacGregor John F. MacGregor John Frederick MacGregor is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition...
1973	Sebastian B. Littauer	1998	Raymond H. Myers

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