Three medals presented at AIEE meeting

PRESENTATION of three of the highest engineering honors — the Edison, John Fritz, and Hoover Medals — to three engineers in vastly different fields of the profession, at a special session of the AIEE national technical meeting on January 27, 1943, was unique in the history of the Institute. Research has revealed that at no time previous to this have three such signal honors been conferred at one AIEE ceremony. The 1942 Edison Medal, highest award of the AIEE, was presented to Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Willis R. Whitney (A ´01), vice-president in charge of research, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., was awarded the 1943 John Fritz Medal, given for notable scientific or industrial achievement. The award of the 1942 Hoover Medal, honoring an engineer for distinguished public service, was made to Gerard Swope (F ´22), president of the General Electric Company, New York, N. Y. Text of presentation addresses and responses of medalists follow (EE, Mar. ´43, pp. 116–17).