W.R. Buessem Award
The Wilhelm R. Buessem Award was created in 1989 by the Center for Dielectric Studies to honor Dr. Wilhelm R. Buessem for his outstanding contributions to the field of dielectrics. The award is presented annually at a meeting of the Center for Dielectric Studies to a member of the dielectrics community with a lifetime of achievement in the field.
Dr. Wilhelm R. Buessem and CDS Director Joseph P. Dougherty at the First Annual Center for Dielectric Studies Award Dinner, May 10, 1989. |
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Buessem Award Recipients:
| Award Year | Date Presented | Recipient | Title/Affiliation at Time of Award |
| 1989 | May 10, 1989 | Wilhelm R. Buessem | Professor Emeritus, Ceramic Science, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| 1990 | May 1, 1990 | Harold W. Stetson | Retired from DuPont, RCA; Member of technical staff, Heraeus, Inc., West Conshohocken, PA, USA |
| 1991 | May 7, 1991 | Eric Cross | Evan Pugh Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director, Materials Research Laboratory; Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| 1992 | March 23, 1992 | Donald Smyth | Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Chemistry; Director, Materials Research Center; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA USA |
| 1993 | September 22, 1993 | Truman C. Rutt | Research Fellow, AVX Corporation, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA |
| 1994 | October 4, 1994 | Donald W. Hamer | Founder, Chairman, and CEO, State-of-the-Art, Inc., State College, PA, USA |
| 1995 | October 19, 1995 | John M. Herbert | Research Scientist (retired), Plessey Research Laboratory, United Kingdom |
| 1996 | November 7, 1996 | Kikuo Wakino | Corporate Advisor, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University; Japan |
| 1997 | November 19, 1997 | Robert E. Newnham | Alcoa Professor of Solid State Science; Associate Director, Materials Research Laboratory; Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| 1998 | October 29, 1998 | Gene H. Haertling | Professor Emeritus, Ceramic Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA |
| 1999 | November 16, 1999 | James V. Biggers | Retired Director of Center for Dielectric Studies, Materials Research Laboratory, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| 2000 | October 12, 2000 | Gottfried Arlt | Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering from RWTH-Aachen, Germany |
| 2001 | October 16, 2001 | Robert S. Roth | Retired Supervisory Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA |
| 2002 | April 24, 2003 | Masatomo Yonezawa | Chief Engineer, Functional Materials Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan |
| 2003 | October 27, 2003 | Ian Burn | Retired from Ferro Corporation; Founder, Ian Burn Consulting, Inc., Hockesin, DE, USA |
| 2004 | October 28, 2004 | Detlev Hennings | Retired Research Fellow, Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany |
| 2005 | November 10, 2005 | Karl Heinz Härdtl | Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2006 | November 10, 2006 | Manfred Kahn | Retired Head of Electrical Ceramics Section, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA |
| 2007 | October 1, 2007 | Galeb H. Maher | President, and CEO of MRA Laboratories, Adams, MA, USA |
| 2008 | October 13, 2008 | Nobutatsu Yamaoka | Company Auditor; Retired Executive Director of Operation Headquarters, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Japan |
| 2009 | October 19, 2009 | David Alan Payne | Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA |
| 2010 | October 26, 2010 | Yukio Sakabe | Corporate Senior Advisor, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan |
| 2011 | October 24, 2011 | Nava Setter | Director of the Ceramics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) |
