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 |
9 |
Jack A. Kinzler |
NASA Johnson Space Center |
10 |
Gordon A. Smith |
Fairchild Space & Electronics Company |
11 |
Bryon H. Welch |
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company |
12 |
Michael J. Ospring & Ronald E. Mancini |
NASA Ames Research Center |
13 |
R.F. Turner |
SRC Appleton Laboratory, Astrophysics Research Division |
14 |
James B. Cole |
Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. |
15 |
Robert D. Renken |
Ball Aerospace Systems Division |
16 |
Robert G. Daniell |
Spar Aerospace Ltd. |
17 |
Donald R. Sevilla |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
18 |
Robert G. Daniell |
Spar Aerospace Ltd. |
19 |
Daniel. P. Kuban |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
20 |
E.W. Roberts |
European Space Tribology Lab |
21 |
Martin D. Hasha |
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company |
22 |
Kenneth R. Lorell |
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company |
23 |
Richard A Fink Kenneth R. Lorell |
Honeywell Space & Aviation Systems
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company |
24 |
M. Bruce Milam |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
25 |
Michael Kubitschek |
Ball Corporation |
26 |
Eric Blanc |
Aerospatiale |
27 |
Gerald W. Lilienthal |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
28 |
Michael R. Johnson |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
29 |
Ellen I. Williams |
Ball Corporation |
30 |
Dave Laidig |
Motorola |
31 |
Les Krumel |
Sandia National Laboratories |
32 |
Robert Renken |
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation |
33 |
Bill Purdy |
Naval Research Laboratory |
34 |
Manfred Schmid |
Astrium GmbH |
35 |
Thomas B. Pace |
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company |
36 |
Michael R. Johnson Bert Haugen |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company |
37 |
Ted Iskenderian |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
38 |
Steve Koss |
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory |
39 |
Peter Frantz |
The Aerospace Corporation |
40 |
Elliot Harik |
The Boeing Company (NASA Johnson Space Center) |
41 |
Jason Budinoff |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
42 |
Henry Martinez |
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company |
43 |
Christopher DellaCorte |
NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) |
44 |
Jonathan Sauder |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (UCLA) |
45 |
(not awarded – papers only, no symposium) |
|
46 |
John Gordon |
Sierra Space |