Honorary Membership recognizes outstanding contribution to the advancement of imaging science and engineering. Contributions to research administration or to Society activities are not of importance for this award. The recipient should have made contributions to more than one specialized area of imaging science and engineering.
Society membership prior to receipt of this award is not required.
Not more than one per year; joint awards are permitted.
An engraved silver membership card and gratis membership in the Society are given to recipients of this award. Honorary Membership entitles the recipient to all privileges of regular membership.
2012Noboru Ohta
2011Chang Yeong Kim
2010David McDowell
2009James Larimer
2007Jan P. Allebach
2006Shin Ohno
2005John J. McCann
2004Gary K. Starkweather
2003Yoichi Miyake
2002Rodney Shaw
2001Vivian K. Walworth
2000Tadaaki Tani
1999Robert W. Gundlach
1998Lucien De Schamphelaere
1997Paul B. Gilman Jr.
1996Leo J. Thomas
1995Edwin P. Przbylowicz
1994Jordan P. Malinowski
1993Bradford Washburn
1992John H. Dessauer
1991Robert W.G. Hunt
1990John F. Hamilton
1989William McCune Jr.
1987Howard G. Rogers
1986Wesley T. Hanson Jr.
1985Shinichi Kikuchi
1984John A.C. Yule
1983K. V. Chibissov
1982Alber Rose
1981Nevill Mott
1980Eiichi Inoue
1979John D. Kendall
1978Wolfgang F. Berg
1977Heinz F. Nitka
1976Julian H. Webb
1975Deane R. White
1974F.W. Helmut Mueller
1973William West
1971Burt H. Carroll
1970Emmanuel Goldberg
1969Leopold Godowsky Jr
Leopold D. Mannes
1968Thomas Howard James
1967John W. Mitchell
1965Edith Weyde
1964M. Hellmut Frieser
1962Chester F. Carlson
1960Douglas A. Spencer
1958Louis-Philippe Clerc
1957John Eggert
1956Harold E. Edgerton
1955Edwin H. Land
1954Kenneth C.E. Mees