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 Awards Dinner, May 10, 1989.

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
1990	May 1, 1990	Harold W. Stetson	Retired from Dupont, RCA; Member of technical staff, Heraeus, Inc., West Conshohocken, PA
1991	May 7, 1991	L. Eric Cross	Evan Pugh Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director, Materials Research Laboratory; Penn State University, University Park, PA
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
1993	September 22, 1993	Truman C. Rutt	Research Fellow, AVX Corporation, Myrtle Beach, SC
1994	October 4, 1994	Donald W. Hamer	Founder, Chairman, and CEO, State-of-the-Art, Inc., State College, PA
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
1998	October 29, 1998	Gene H. Haertling	Professor Emeritus, Ceramic Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC
1999	November 16, 1999	James V. Biggers	Retired Director of Center for Dielectric Studies, Materials Research Laboratory, Penn State University, University Park, PA
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
2005	November 10, 2005	Karl Heinz Härdtl	Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
2006	October 18, 2006	Manfred Kahn	Retired Head of Electronic Ceramics Section, Naval Research Laboratory
2007	October 1, 2007	Galeb H. Maher	Founder, President, and CEO of MRA Laboratories, Inc.