Dr. George Herzl Award Winners

Dr. George Gjora Herzl

Born in 1926. His college degrees were: BSEE, 1949 from University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia; MSME, 1952, from Israel Institute of Technology; MS Applied Physics, 1958, from Arizona State University; and PhD in Applied Mechanics, 1962 from Technical University of Darmstadt. His work experience included Chemed Works, Haifa, Israel, where he did the development of military and laboratory mechanisms and equipment (12/50 to 6/54), RCA, where he worked on the development of a card to magnetic tape transcribing mechanism (6/54 to 12/56), General Electric working on the advanced development of magnetic tape station (12/56 to 2/59), Ampex (3/59 to 4/59), IBM in San Jose, Germany and Switzerland doing experimental and analytical analysis of a self-excited oscillator and positioning device (4/59 to 9/60), Philco (1/63 to 8/65) where he worked on various spacecraft mechanisms, and then Lockheed Martin Space Systems from 10/65 on. At the time of hiring onto Lockheed, George had written 30 technical papers, had one patent, and his professional engineer’s license. He had training as a watchmaker, and belonged to the American Watchmaker Society.

Each year a plaque is awarded to the author of the “Best Paper.” The award is based on both paper content and presentation. This award was established in honor of Dr. George Herzl of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., a co-founder of the Aerospace Mechanisms Symposia. At the 43rd symposium, the Herzl award was presented by Dr. Herzl’s daughter Nadine. This table lists the previous winners of past symposiums.

AMS

WINNER

ORGANIZATION

46

John Gordon
(Scott Christiansen)
(Charles Lazansky)

Sierra Space

45

(not awarded – papers only, no symposium)

44

Jonathan Sauder
(Nacer Chahat, Richard Hodges, Eva Peral)
(Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
(Mark Thomson)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

(UCLA)
(Northrop Grumman Astro Aerospace)

43

Christopher DellaCorte
(S. Adam Howard)
(Lewis Moore III)

NASA Glenn Research Center

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

42

Henry Martinez
(Chris Cloutier, Heber Lemmon, Daniel Rakes, Joe Oldham & Keith Schlagel)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

41

Jason Budinoff

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

40

Elliot Harik
(Justin McFatter, Carlos Enriquez & David McCann)
(Daniel Sweeney & Deneen Taylor)

The Boeing Company

(NASA Johnson Space Center)

39

Peter Frantz
(Peter Ward & Alan Leveille)

The Aerospace Corporation

38

Steve Koss
(Scott Woolaway)

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
(Ball Aerospace Corp.)

37

Ted Iskenderian

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

36

Michael R. Johnson

Bert Haugen
(Malcolm Ferry & Kevin Klein)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

35

Thomas B. Pace
(Steven M. Honodel)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

34

Manfred Schmid

Astrium GmbH

33

Bill Purdy

Naval Research Laboratory

32

Robert Renken

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation

31

Les Krumel

Sandia National Laboratories

30

Dave Laidig
(Martin Leckie)

Motorola
(COM DEV)

29

Ellen I. Williams
(Richard T. Summers & Miroslaw A. Ostaszewski)

Ball Corporation

28

Michael R. Johnson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

27

Gerald W. Lilienthal
(Argelio M. Olivera & Lori R. Shiraishi)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

26

Eric Blanc

Aerospatiale

25

Michael Kubitschek

Ball Corporation

24

M. Bruce Milam

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

23

Richard A Fink
(R. C. Ellis & R. W. Rich)

Kenneth R. Lorell
(J-N. Aubrun, D. F. Zacharie & E. O. Perez)

Honeywell Space & Aviation Systems

 

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company

22

Kenneth R. Lorell
(J-N. Aubrun, D. F. Zacharie & D. J. Frank)

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company

21

Martin D. Hasha

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company

20

E.W. Roberts

European Space Tribology Lab

19

Daniel. P. Kuban
(Gerald S. Perkins)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

18

 Robert G. Daniell
(Howard M. Jones)

Spar Aerospace Ltd.

17

Donald R. Sevilla

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

16

Robert G. Daniell
(Savi S. Sachdev)

Spar Aerospace Ltd.

15

Robert D. Renken
(Richard P. Maxwell)

Ball Aerospace Systems Division

14

James B. Cole

Boeing Commercial Airplane Co.

13

R.F. Turner
(J. G. Firth)

SRC Appleton Laboratory, Astrophysics Research Division

12

Michael J. Ospring & Ronald E. Mancini

NASA Ames Research Center

11

Bryon H. Welch
(B. J. Richter)

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company

10

Gordon A. Smith
(Thomas G. Berry & Lamont DiBiasi)

Fairchild Space & Electronics Company

9

Jack A. Kinzler

NASA Johnson Space Center