Awards & Honors

The American Association for World Health's Macedo Award has been 
accepted by Nicholas A. Ashford, associate professor of technology and 
policy in the School of Engineering, on behalf of the New Jersey 
Department of Health. 

The award was made to honor the department's leadership in promoting 
greater awareness of environmental health issues through its recent 
report on chemical sensitivity. The report's authors were Professor 
Ashford and Claudia S. Miller, MD, of the University of Texas Health 
Science Center.

The Macedo Prize was established by the Pan American Health Organization 
and is named for its director general, Carlyle Guerra de Macedo. The 
presentation occurred in April on World Health Day.

Professor John B. Heywood of the Department of Mechanical Engineering 
will deliver the 1990 Soichiro Honda Lecture at the Fall Technical 
Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The 
society selected Professor Heywood, director of the Sloan Automotive 
Laboratory, to deliver the lecture established in 1986 by a gift from 
Mr. Honda to the ASME. Designation  as the Soichiro Honda Lecturer 
recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of internal combustion 
engines. Professor Heywood's lecture topic is "Future Engine Technology: 
Lessons from the '80s for the 1990s."

Professor Heywood has been director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory 
since 1972 and is recognized internationally for his research and 
publications on engine phenomena.

Henry M. Paynter, professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical 
Engineering, is one of only 50 participants chosen to exhibit at the 
18th annual National Inventors Expo '90 sponsored by the US Patent and 
Trademark Office, the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc., 
and the Intellectual Property Owners, Inc. The event will be held May 
12-13 in Washington.

Professor Paynter, who now lives in Pittsford, Vt., will exhibit his six 
patents on tension-actuator-based robotics technology.

The exhibit also will contain material relating to Samuel Hopkins of 
Vermont, the  holder of the first US Patent, dated July 31, 1790. 
Professor Paynter, active in the Pittsfield, Vt., Historical Society, 
has made an extensive study of Hopkins, whose patent was issued for 
improvements in making potash, essential in the manufacture of soap. The 
exhibit will demonstrate how the Hopkins and Paynter inventions, 
although widely separated in time, share a comparable response to 
current needs. 

A direct decendent of Hopkins is George R. Hopkins, principal research 
scientist at the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory.

A new honor, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research 
Organization, has been added to Institute Professor Emeritus Victor F. 
Weisskopf's laurels.

The award is given annually for extraordinary scientific achievement of 
an individual or group that has contributed to research in Austria.

Dr. Weisskopf received the prize for his efforts to help Austrian 
science, especially in particle physics, in connection with his work at 
the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and for his 
general support of Austrian science through consulting and active 
participation. Dr. Weisskopf was CERN director in 1961-65.

The prize, which carries an $8,000 honorarium, will be presented at a 
ceremony in Vienna. Dr. Weisskopf will deliver a paper titled, "The Role 
of Natural Science in Human Culture and Society."

Richard H. Battin, adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics, 
has been selected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of 
Aeronautics and Astronautics. Honorary fellowships, the AIAA's highest 
accolade, are awarded "to exceptional individuals who embody the highest 
standards possible in the aeronautics field."