Awards

William Begell Medal, For Excellence in Thermal Science and Engineering

William Begell Medal

The William Begell Medal, For Excellence in Thermal Science and Engineering was established in 2010 by The Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences, AIHTC, International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, ICHMT and Begell House Inc. to award an individual, from among those selected to deliver Keynote lectures at the IHTC Conferences, who is held in high regard by the heat transfer community for his/her contributions and excellence in thermal science and technology and whose IHTC Keynote paper is judged to make a profound contribution to the thermal science and engineering literature. In 2023, the Award Steering Committee amended the The William Begell Medal to be bestowed upon an internationally recognized, highly-accomplished researcher and leader in fundamentals or applications of thermal sciences and engineering based on the lifetime achievements.

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The Nukiyama Memorial Award

Nukiyama Memorial Award

The Nukiyama Memorial Award has been established and sponsored by the Heat Transfer Society of Japan to commemorate outstanding contributions by Shiro Nukiyama as an excellent heat transfer scientist. Nukiyama addressed the challenges of the boiling phenomena and published a pioneering paper which clarified these phenomena in the form of the Nukiyama curve (boiling curve). This epoch-making work was done in 1930s, when heat transfer research was in an early stage and Nukiyama himself was young, under forty years old. The Nukiyama Memorial Award shall be bestowed to a scientist under/ about fifty years of age, once every two years in the field of Thermal Science and Engineering.

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