Lawroski Award Winners

2006 Award Winners

		William Miller received the Lawroski Award in recognigion of his 46 years of scientific excellence and sustained creative contributions to the development of innovative technologies, enabling the success of Argonne's advanced energy programs. Zygmunt Tomczuk was recognized for his longstanding excellence and significant contributions to the application of electrochemical technologies to advanced energy programs attained through his 35 year career at Argonne.
Chemical Engineering Division David Lewis, left, with Lawroski Award winner Bill Miller				Chemical Engineering Division David Lewis, left, with Lawroski Award winner Ziggy Tomczuk

2003 Award Winners

Kevin Michael Myles and Donald Vissers were recognized for their broad contributions to the Laboratory's energy programs, but particularly for their instrumental role in developing Argonne's Electrochemical Technology Program, considered to be among the finest in the world.

2002 Award Winners

Paul A. Nelson won this award in 2002 for his exceptional and long-standing contribution to the Chemical Engineering Division through the application of molten-salt chemistry for the development of advanced batteries. Also in 2002, Martin J. Steindler was recognized for his exceptional and long-standing contribution to the Chemical Engineering Division through research on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel by aqueous, pyrochemical, and fluoride volatility techniques.

2001 Award Winners

Robert Steunenberg and Leslie Burris are being recognized for their exceptional and long-standing contributions to the Chemical Technology Division through the application of science to early-stage engineering. Bob is being honored for his application of molten-salt chemistry to the development of pyrochemical processing and advanced batteries, and Les is being honored for the use of pyroprocessing and high temperature electrochemistry to close the nuclear fuel cycle.

2000 Award Winner

The first recipient of this award is Irving Johnson. Dr. Johnson received a Master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University. In 1946 he joined the chemistry department at Oklahoma State University, focusing on high-temperature chemistry, teaching basic graduate courses in physical chemistry, and supervising the work of master's and doctoral students. Johnson moved on to the Ford Scientific Laboratory in 1953, where he studied fuel combustion. In 1957 he joined Argonne’s Chemical Engineering/Technology Division. During his 29 years at Argonne he earned worldwide respect for his work in thermodynamics of liquid metals and molten salts.