The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

The American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

AIME AWARDS
AIME Honorary Membership
AIME Honorary Membership is one of the highest honors that the Institute can bestow on an individual. It is awarded in appreciation of outstanding service to the Institute or in recognition of distinguished scientific or engineering achievement in the fields embracing the activities of AIME and its Member Societies. Candidates for Honorary Membership are generally (1) members of the AIME Member Societies who are outstanding in their respective fields and/or who have performed unusual service to the Institute; (2) United States citizens, whether AIME Member Society members or not, who are particularly outstanding; or (3) citizens of foreign countries who are outstanding in their work combined with some official position of service to the profession.
 
Nominations should go to the appropriate member societies Executive Director

 
Year of Election - Member - (Year of Decease)
1976 - Karl L. Fetters (TMS) - (1990)
1976 - Nathaniel Arbiter (SME) - (2008)
1975 - Claude R. Hocott (SPE) - (2001)
1975 - Nathan E. Promisel (TMS) - (2005)
1975 - Norman L. Weiss (SME) - (1986)
1974 - Cyril Stanley Smith (TMS) - (1991)
1974 - James Boyd (SME) - (1987)
1974 - Paul D. Torrey (SPE) - (1982)
1973 - Albert J. Phillips (TMS) - (1994)
1973 - Carl Wagner (TMS) - (1978)
1973 - Francis Cameron (SME) - (1975)
1973 - George H. Love (SME) - (1992)
1973 - John E. Sherborne (SPE) - (1974)
1973 - Michel T. Halbouty (SPE) - (2004)
1972 - Antoine M. Gaudin (SME) - (1974)
1972 - Arthur B. Cummins (SME) - (1977)
1972 - Carleton C. Long (TMS) - (1993)
1972 - Dean A. McGee (SPE) - (1989)
1972 - Howard C. Pyle (SPE) - (1980)
1972 - John Chipman (ISS) - (1983)
1972 - Morris Muskat (SPE) - (1998)
1972 - Robert P. Koenig (SME) - (1984)
2006 - Edward H. Mayer (SPE) - (2010)
1972 - Sir Ian M. McLennan (SME) - (1998)
1972 - Stuart E. Buckley (SPE) - (1975)
1971 - Clyde Williams (TMS) - (1988)
1971 - Jan J. Arps (SPE) - (1976)
1971 - Thomas C. Frick (SPE) - (1990)
1970 - Lloyd E. Elkins (SPE) - (2004)
1969 - Augustus B. Kinzel (TMS) - (1987)
1969 - Scott Turner (SME) - (1972)
1967 - Clyde E. Weed (SME) - (1973)
1967 - Joseph Jensen (SPE) - (1974)
2004 - George H. Sawyer (SPE) - (2005)
1966 - Charles V. Millikan (SPE) - (1987)
1966 - Richard N. Hunt (ISS) - (1989)
1965 - Ira B. Joralemon (SME) - (1975)
1964 - Edgar C. Bain (TMS) - (1971)
1964 - Michael L. Haider (SPE) - (1986)
1964 - Nils H. Magnusson (SME) - (1977)
1964 - Reno H. Sales (SME) - (1969)
1964 - Sir Maurice Mawby (TMS) - (1977)
2000 - John L. Gidley (SPE) - (2009)
1961 - Rene V. M. Perrin (ISS) - (1966)
1999 - Gerald E. Sherrod (SPE) - (1998)
1960 - Andrew Fletcher (SME) - (1977)
1960 - Henry DeWitt Smith (SME) - (1962)
1960 - John M. Lovejoy (SPE) - (1968)
1960 - Wilfred Sykes (ISS) - (1964)
1960 - William E. Wrather (SPE) - (1963)
1996 - F. Kenneth Iverson (ISS) - (2003)
1958 - Fred Searls, Jr. (SME) - (1968)
1956 - George M. Humphrey (ISS) - (1968)
1956 - Louis S. Cates (SME) - (1959)
1950 - Zay Jefferies (TMS) - (1965)
1949 - Erle V. Daveler (TMS) - (1957)
1948 - John R. Suman (SPE) - (1972)
1947 - Cecil H. Desch (TMS) - (1958)
1994 - William E. Brigham (SPE) - (2004)
1947 - Charles A. Carlow (SME) - (1954)
1947 - Charles Camsell (SME) - (1958)
1946 - Peter M. Anderson (SME) - (1954)
1946 - Wong Wen-Hao (SME) - (1962)
1992 - Charles W. Arnold (SPE) - (2000)
1945 - Walter C. Mendenhall - (1957)
1945 - Walter Hull Aldridge - (1959)
1944 - Selwyn G. Blaylock - (1945)
1942 - Essington Lewis (ISS) - (1962)
1942 - Paul D. Merica (TMS) - (1957)
1992 - Ted M. Geffen (SPE) - (1997)
1941 - Daniel Cowan Jackling (SME) - (1956)
1991 - Basil P. Kantzer (SPE) - (2005)
1939 - Henry Krumb (SPE) - (1958)
1938 - A. M. Portevin - (1962)
1938 - John V. W. Reynders (ISS) - (1944)
1938 - Sir Henry Cort Harold Carpenter - (1940)
1990 - Kermit E. Brown (SPE) - (2009)
1937 - George S. Rice (SME) - (1950)
1936 - Robert Peele (SME) - (1942)
1990 - William Hurst (SPE) - (1996)
1935 - Guillaume Daniel Delprat - (1937)
1935 - T. A. Rickard (SME) - (1953)
1933 - Albert Sauveur - (1939)
1989 - John P. Hammond (SPE) - (2002)
1933 - Karl Eilers - (1941)
1989 - Kenneth W. Robbins (SPE) - (1994)
1931 - Waldeman Lindgren - (1939)
1929 - John Markle - (1933)
1929 - Takuma Dan - (1932)
1928 - John Hays Hammond - (1936)
1928 - William Boyce Thompson - (1930)
1923 - Gelasio Caetani - (1934)
1922 - Federico Giolitti - (1946)
1988 - Robert L. Whiting (SPE) - (2005)
1921 - C. McDermid - (1952)
1987 - Alfred Weiss (SME) - (1998)
1921 - Ferdinand Foch - (1929)
1921 - Frank William Harbord - (1943)
1921 - Heinrich O. Hofman - (1924)
1987 - Henri G. Doll (SPE) - (1991)
1921 - William Cuthbert Blackett - (1935)
1920 - Henry Sturgis Drinker - (1937)
1919 - Robert W. Hunt - (1923)
1917 - Herbert Hoover - (1964)
1915 - James Furman Kemp - (1926)
1986 - Donald L. Katz (SPE) - (1989)
1913 - Ezequiel Ordonez - (1950)
1913 - Frank Dawson Adams - (1942)
1986 - Plato Malozemoff (SME) - (1997)
1911 - Robert H. Richards - (1945)
1986 - Robert B. Gilmore (SPE) - (1999)
1911 - Rossiter W. Raymond - (1918)
1910 - Tsunashiro Wada - (1920)
1985 - Fred H. Poettmann (SPE) - (1995)
1909 - Alexandre Pourcel - (1934)
1985 - Henry J. Ramey, Jr. (SPE) - (1993)
1909 - James M. Swank - (1914)
1985 - John F. Havard (SME) - (1994)
1909 - Richard Beck - (1919)
1985 - John R. McMillan (SPE) - (1992)
1907 - Charles D. Walcott - (1927)
1906 - James Douglas - (1918)
1906 - John E. Stead - (1923)
1985 - William H. Wise (ISS) - (2007)
1906 - Sir Robert Hadfield - (1940)
1984 - M. Scott Kraemer (SPE) - (2004)
1905 - Andrew Carnegie - (1919)
1905 - Henri LeChatalier - (1936)
1983 - Earl R. Parker (TMS) - (2000)
1902 - Dmitry Tschernoff - (1921)
1983 - H. Mark Krause, Jr. (SPE) - (1993)
1902 - Manuel Maria Contreras - (1902)
1983 - John F. Elliott (ISS) - (1991)
1899 - Floris Osmond - (1912)
1899 - Sir William C. Roberts-Austen - (1902)
1895 - Joseph Le Conte - (1901)
1982 - Henry T. Mudd (SME) - (1990)
1892 - A. Del Castillo - (1895)
1891 - Bruno Keri - (1905)
1981 - Morris Cohen (TMS) - (2005)
1891 - H. C. Emil Schroedter - (1928)
1981 - Simon D. Strauss (SME) - (1998)
1891 - J. P. Lesley - (1903)
1980 - Charles S. Barrett (TMS) - (1994)
1890 - Adolph Patera - (1890)
1980 - James D. Reilly (SME) - (1982)
1890 - Albert Serlo - (1898)
1890 - Moritz Gaetzschann - (1895)
1980 - Wayne E. Glenn (SPE) - (2009)
1888 - A. Daubree - (1896)
1888 - Fanz Posepny - (1895)
1979 - Eugene P. Pfleider (SME) - (1981)
1888 - Hans Hoefer - (1924)
1979 - Jesse F. Core (SME) - (1993)
1888 - Haton de La Goupilliere - (1927)
1979 - Melvin E. Nickel (ISS) - (2005)
1886 - John Percy - (1889)
1885 - Hermann Wedding - (1908)
1978 - James B. Austin (ISS) - (1988)
1884 - Theodore Richter - (1898)
1978 - Lincoln F. Elkins (SPE) - (1999)
1880 - C. Williams Siemens - (1883)
1978 - M. King Hubbert (SPE) - (1989)
1880 - Thomas M. Drown - (1904)
1876 - Richard Ackerman - (1922)
1977 - Clarence E. Sims (ISS) - (1978)
1873 - L. Gruner - (1883)
1977 - Dennis L. McElroy (SME) - (1978)
1873 - Peter R. von Tunner - (1897)
1977 - John S. Bell (SPE) - (1998)
1872 - David Thomas - (1882)
1977 - Robert H. McLemore (SPE) - (1995)
1872 - Sir Lothian Bell - (1904)
 
 


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