Frank P. Brown Medal

The Frank P. Brown Medal was formerly awarded by the Franklin Institute for excellence in science, engineering, and structures. It was established by the 1938 will of Franklin Pierce Brown, a member of the Master Plumbers Association.

The designer of the medal was Walker Kirtland Hancock.

Laureates

 * 1941 – Willis Haviland Carrier Engineering
 * 1942 – Duff Andrew Abrams Engineering
 * 1943 – Albert Kahn Engineering
 * 1944 – Harvey Clayton Rentschler Engineering
 * 1945 – David Gilmore Clarke Engineering
 * 1946 – Karl Terzaghi Earth Science
 * 1947 – Karl P. Billner Engineering
 * 1950 – Gustave Magnel Engineering
 * 1950 – Eugene Freyssinet Engineering
 * 1951 – Samuel Arnold Greeley Civil Engineering
 * 1952 – Fred N. Severud Engineering
 * 1953 – Frank Lloyd Wright Engineering
 * 1954 – Edmund Germer Engineering
 * 1954 – Hans J. Spanner Engineering
 * 1954 – Humboldt W. Leverenz Engineering
 * 1955 – Charles S. Leopold Engineering
 * 1956 – Robert G. Letourneau Engineering
 * 1957 - Pier Luigi Nervi Engineering
 * 1958 - Charles Milton Spofford Engineering  (author of The Theory of Structures 1915)
 * 1959 - Hardy Cross Engineering
 * 1960 - Richard Buckminster Fuller Engineering
 * 1961 - Charles Edouard Jeanneret LeCorbusier Engineering
 * 1962 - Edmund Norwood Bacon Civil Engineering
 * 1964 - Louis I. Kahn Engineering
 * 1965 - William Jaird Levitt Engineering
 * 1966 - Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Engineering
 * 1967 - Carl Koch (architect) Engineering
 * 1968 - Philip Newell Youtz Engineering
 * 1970 - Trevor Lloyd Wadley Engineering
 * 1971 - Henry Lee Willet Engineering
 * 1974 - Hans Liebherr Engineering
 * 1975 - Public Building Services of U.S. Govt Engineering
 * 1976 - E. Dale Waters Engineering
 * 1978 - Henry J. Degenkolb Engineering
 * 1982 - Vincent G. Kling Engineering
 * 1982 - Lynn S. Beedle Engineering
 * 1987 - Paul Weidlinger Engineering
 * 1988 - Ben C. Gerwick, Jr. Engineering
 * 1988 - Marvin A. Mass Engineering
 * 1992 – John W. Fisher Engineering
 * 1995 – Jean M. Muller Engineering
 * Now dormant as an award. The last Frank P. Brown Medal was awarded in 1995.