Allan D. Emil Memorial Award

The Allan D. Emil Memorial Award is presented every year at the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation.^[1]

It has been presented annually, since 1977, for an outstanding contribution in space science, space technology, space medicine, or space law which involved the participation of more than one nation and/or which furthered the possibility of greater international cooperation in astronautics.

The award consists of a certificate citation and a stipend donated by the Emil family.

Recipients

• 1977: Charles Stark Draper
• 1978: Konstantin Bushuyev, Glynn Lunney
• 1979: Santiago Astrain [es]
• 1980: Thomas P. Stafford
• 1981: Peter Jankowitsch, Leonid I. Sedov
• 1982: Roger Chevalier
• 1983: Roy Gibson
• 1984: Luboš Perek
• 1985: Hans E.W. Hoffmann
• 1986: Robert Freitag
• 1987: Ruedeger Reinhard, Burton Edelson, Roger-Maurice Bonnet [fr], Roald Sagdeev, Minoru Oda [ru]
• 1988: Vladimír Kopal [de]
• 1989: Johannes Geiss
• 1990: Oleg Gazenko, Arnauld Nicogossian [hy], Karl Klein
• 1991: Guy Severin, Yuri P. Semenov [ru]
• 1992: George Müller, U. Ram Rao
• 1993: Hubert Curien
• 1994: Shigebumi (Saturo?) Saito [ja]
• 1995: Karl H. Doetsch
• 1996: Anatoly Grigoriev
• 1997: James Harford
• 1998: Alvaro Azcarraga
• 1999: Edward C. Stone
• 2000: Marcio Barbosa
• 2001: Richard Kline
• 2002: Jean-Claude Husson
• 2003: Liu Jiyuan
• 2004: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
• 2005: Ernesto Vallerani [it]
• 2006: Oleg Alifanov [ru]
• 2007: Gerhard Haerendel
• 2008: Conrad Lautenbacher
• 2009: Wei Sun
• 2010: Nikolay A. Anfimov [ru]
• 2011: Kuniaki Shiraki
• 2012: Kuninori Uesugi [ja]
• 2013: Ma Xingrui
• 2014: K. Radhakrishnan
• 2015: Virendra Jha
• 2016: Charles Elachi
• 2017: Lei Fanpei
• 2018: Xia Guohong
• 2019: Joan Vernikos
• 2020: Kailasavadivoo Sivan

See also

• List of space technology awards

External links

• Allan D. Emil Memorial Award | IAF