The ASA Silver Medal is an award presented by the Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

The Acoustical Society of America is an international scientific society dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.-History:...

 to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles or through research accomplishments in acoustics. The medal is awarded in a number of categories depending on the technical committee responsible for making the nomination.

Recipients of the medal are listed below.

Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography

Acoustical oceanography

Acoustical oceanography is the use of underwater sound to study the sea, its boundaries and its contents.-History:The earliest and most widespread use of sound and sonar technology to study the properties of the sea is the use of an echo sounder to measure water depth...

• 1993 - Clarence S. Clay
• 1997 - Herman Medwin
• 2004 - D. Vance Holliday
  D. Van Holliday
  Dr. Dale Vance Holliday was born in Ennis, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated with a B.S. and M.A. in Physics and did extensive theoretical and experimental research on the Mössbauer effect...
  
  

Silver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion through elastic media, and reception in animals, including humans. This involves neurophysiological and anatomical basis of sound production and...

• 1998 - Whitlow W.L. Au
• 2005 - James A. Simmons
  James A. Simmons
  James A. Simmons is a pioneer in the field of biosonar. His research includes behavioral and neurophysiological studies of sound processing in the echolocating bat. From the time he began graduate research in the late 1960s to the present, he has been in the forefront of bat echolocation research...
  
  

Silver Medal in Biomedical

Biomedical engineering

Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve...

 Ultrasound

Ultrasound

Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Ultrasound is thus not separated from "normal" sound based on differences in physical properties, only the fact that humans cannot hear it. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is...

/Bioresponse

Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion through elastic media, and reception in animals, including humans. This involves neurophysiological and anatomical basis of sound production and...

 to Vibration

Vibration

Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic such as the motion of a pendulum or random such as the movement of a tire on a gravel road.Vibration is occasionally "desirable"...

• 1999 - Ronald T. Verrillo
• 2004 - James G. Miller

Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics

Acoustical engineering

Acoustical engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration. It is the application of acoustics, the science of sound and vibration, in technology. Acoustical engineers are typically concerned with the manipulation and control of sound....

• 1974 - Harry F. Olson
• 1976 - Hugh S. Knowles
• 1978 - Benjamin B. Bauer
• 1982 - Per Vilhelm Bruel
• 1984 - Vincent Salmon
• 1986 - Albert G. Bodine
• 1989 - Joshua E. Greenspon
• 1992 - Alan Powell
• 1995 - James E. West
• 1998 - Richard H. Lyon
• 2004 - John V. Bouyoucos

Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics

Musical acoustics

Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds employed as music work...

• 1981 - Carleen M. Hutchins
• 1984 - Arthur H. Benade
• 1986 - John C. Backus
• 1989 - Max V. Matthews
• 1992 - Thomas D. Rossing
• 1998 - Neville H. Fletcher
• 2003 - Johan E.F. Sundberg
• 2008 - Gabriel Weinreich

Silver Medal in Noise

Noise

In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...

• 1978 - Harvey H. Hubbard
• 1981 - Henning E. von Gierke
• 1984 - William W. Lang
• 1986 - Tony F. W. Embleton
• 1988 - William J. Galloway
• 1992 - George C. Maling, Jr.
• 1994 - Kenneth M. Eldred
• 1999 - Larry H. Royster
• 2002 - Louis C. Sutherland
• 2006 – Alan H. Marsh

Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics

• 1975 - Isadore Rudnick
• 1977 - Martin Greenspan
• 1979 - Herbert J. McSkimin
• 1985 - David T. Blackstock
• 1988 - Mark A. Breazeale
• 1991 - Allan D. Pierce
• 1994 - Julian D. Maynard
• 1997 - Robert E. Apfel
• 2000 - Gregory W. Swift
• 2003 - Philip L. Marston
• 2006 – Henry E. Bass
• 2008 - Peter J. Westervelt
  Peter Westervelt
  Peter Westervelt is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brown University. Westervelt is known for his work in nonlinear acoustics...
  
  

Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

Acoustics

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

• 1977 - Lloyd A. Jeffress
• 1981 - Ernest Glen Wever
• 1987 - Eberhard Zwicker
• 1990 - David M. Green
• 1994 - Nathaniel I. Durlach
• 2001 - Neal F. Viemeister
• 2002 - Brian C. J. Moore
• 2004 - H. Steven Colburn
• 2006 – William A. Yost

Silver Medal in Speech Communication

• 1975 - Franklin S. Cooper
• 1980 - Gunnar Fant
• 1983 - Kenneth N. Stevens
• 1987 - Dennis H. Klatt
• 1991 - Arthur S. House
• 1994 - Peter Ladefoged
• 1997 - Patricia K. Kuhl
• 2005 - Katherine S. Harris
• 2007 - Ingo R. Titze
  Ingo titze
  Ingo R. Titze is a Vocal Scientist and Executive Director of the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He is a Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa and is also the author of several written works...
  
  
• 2009 - Winifred Strange

Interdisciplinary Silver Medal

If the nomination is made by two or more technical committees the Silver Medal is known as the Helmholtz-Rayleigh

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904...

 Interdisciplinary Silver Medal. Recipients include

• 1983 - Eugen J. Skudrzyk (Theoretical and Applied Acoustics)
• 1990 - Wesley L. Nyborg (Physical Acoustics and Bioresponse to Vibration)
• 1991 - W. Dixon Ward (Psychological andPhysiological Acoustics, Musical Acoustics, and Noise)
• 1992 - Victor C. Anderson
  Victor C. Anderson
  Victor C. Anderson was an American painter and illustrator, primarily known for his rural life scenes and landscapes, whose works were featured in Life and other magazines of the early 20th Century, and who produced a wide range of illustrations for books as well as oil paintings.Like his father,...
  
   (Underwater Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
• 1993 - Steven L. Garrett (Physical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics)
• 1997 - Gerhard M. Sessler (Engineering Acoustics and Physical Acoustics)
• 1998 - David E. Weston (Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics)
• 1999 - Jens P. Blauert (Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Architectural Acoustics and
• 2000 - Lawrence A. Crum (Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration)
• 2001 - William M. Hartmann
  William M. Hartmann
  William M. Hartmann is a noted physicist, psychoacoustician, author, and former president of the Acoustical Society of America. His major contributions in psychoacoustics are in pitch perception, binaural hearing, and sound localization...
  
   (Musical Acoustics, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Architectural Acoustics)
• 2002 - Arthur B. Baggeroer Underwater Acoustics, Acoustical Oceanography and Signal Processing in Acoustics)
• 2004 - David Lubman (Silver Medal in Architectural Acoustics and Noise)
• 2005 - Gilles A. Daigle (Noise and Physical Acoustics)
• 2006 - Mathias Fink
  Mathias Fink
  Mathias Fink, born in 1945 in Grenoble, is a French physicist, professor at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the Collège de France....
  
  (Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration/Acoustical Oceanography)