Nicolas Appert Award

The Nicolas Appert Award is awarded by the Chicago Section of the Institute of Food Technologists for preeminence in and contributions to the field of food technology.[1] The award has been given annually since 1942 and is named after Nicolas Appert, the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Award winners receive a bronze medal with a front view of Appert and a $5000 honorarium. This is considered one of the highest honors in food technology.[2]

Winners

Source: IFT

Year Winner 1942 William Vere Cruess 1943 Samuel C. Prescott 1944 Charles Albert Browne, Jr. 1945 A.W. Bitting 1946 C.H. Bailey 1947 C. Olin Ball 1948 C.A. Elvenhjem 1949 Roy C. Newton 1950 Thomas M. Rector 1951 A.E. Stevenson 1952 Edward M. Chace 1953 Victor M. Conquest 1954 Charles N. Frey 1955 Charles Glen King 1956 Bernard E. Proctor 1957 Emil M. Mrak 1958 William F. Geddes 1959 Berton S. Clark 1960 Ernest H. Wiegand 1961 Helmut C. Diehl 1962 Arnold Kent Balls 1963 Karl F. Meyer 1964 Gail M. Dack 1965 Harold W. Schultz 1966 Maynard A. Joslyn 1967 Michael J. Copley 1968 Donald K. Tressler 1969 Edwin M. Foster

Year Winner 1970 Samuel A. Goldblith 1971 Reid T. Milner 1972 John C. Ayres 1973 Hans Linweaver 1974 George F. Stewart 1975 Ernest J. Briskey 1976 Amihud Kramer 1977 Richard L. Hall 1978 Jasper G. Woodroof 1979 Frederick J. Francis 1980 Evan C. Binkerd 1981 Bernard S. Schweigert 1982 Clinton O. Chichester 1983 Stephen S. Chang 1984 John J. Powers 1985 Alina S. Szczesniak 1986 Marcus Karel 1987 Elmer H. Marth 1988 Owen R. Fennema 1989 Fergus M. Clydesdale 1990 Myron Solberg 1991 Raymond J. Moshy 1992 Irving J. Pflug 1993 Wilbur A. Gould 1994 Roy L. Whistler 1995 Philip E. Nelson 1996 Michael P. Doyle 1997 H.C. Rudolph Heiss

Year Winner 1998 Theodore P. Labuza 1999 Robert G. Cassens 2000 Aaron L. Brody 2001 Adolph (Al) S. Clausi 2002 Daniel F. Farkas 2003 Dietrich Knorr 2004 Larry R. Beuchat 2005 Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas 2006 George E. Inglett 2007 Todd R. Klaenhammer 2008 Gilbert A. Leveille 2009 Daryl B. Lund 2010 R. Paul Singh 2011 Dr. Malcolm Bourne 2012 Casimir Akoh 2013 Kenneth R. Swartzel 2014 C. Patrick Dunne 2015 Stephen Taylor 2016 E. Allen Foegeding 2017 Jozef L. Kokini

References

1. http://www.ift.org/membership/awards-and-recognition/achievement-awards/nicolas-appert-award.aspx
2. http://chicagoift.org/nicolas-appert-award.php