Awards and Recognition
Look for the Awards Brochure in January 2010.
Nomination Guidelines
To nominate a candidate for any INMM award, provide all of the following materials:
- Name of the award for which the individual, business, laboratory, etc., is being nominated.
- Name and title of nominee. Use former title if individual is retired.
- Title (not applicable for business, industry, laboratory, etc.)
- Name, address and telephone number of nominee's company.
- Recent resume of nominee.
- Supporting information for eligibility. See specific nomination guidelines.
- Five letters of support
- Name, company (if appropriate), address, telephone number and fax number of individual to contact about the nomination. This is very helpful to the Awards Oversight Committee in case the committee requires additional information or clarification.
Submit Nominations
Send nomination documentation to:
INMM Headquarters
111 Deer Lake Road, Suite 100
Deerfield, IL 60015 USA
+1-847-480-9573
Fax: +1-847-480-9282
E-mail: inmm@inmm.org
Complete nominations must be received by April 7, 2010. Incomplete nominations will not be considered.
To be considered for an award, individuals must be nominated by their peers. The nomination is submitted to the INMM Awards Committee for its recommendation and then to the INMM Executive Committee for approval.
INMM Awards
Vincent J. DeVito, Sr. Distinguished, Meritorious and Special Service Awards
These awards are the highest awards given by the INMM to individuals in the profession.
Vincent J. DeVito, Sr. Distinguished Service Award: Focuses on long-term noteworthy service to the nuclear materials management profession. Recipients are not required to be INMM members, but are expected to be internationally recognized for their contributions to nuclear material management.
Meritorious Service Award: Focuses on long-term outstanding contribution to the INMM as well as the individual's noteworthy accomplishments and contributions to the profession. Recipients must be members of the Institute.
Special Service Award: Focuses on noteworthy contributions to the industry or Institute. Eligible candidates can be long-term, active members of the Institute, in good standing; or a person, laboratory or business that has advanced the knowledge and professionalism of the nuclear materials management field.
All award nominations should summarize the individual's accomplishments and contributions. The Awards Oversight Committee will select the wording for an award based on the documentation submitted. The recommendations of the Awards Oversight Committee are forwarded to the INMM Executive Committee for action. Eligible candidates must be employed full-time or retired from full-time employment in the field of nuclear materials management.
Awards for Students
INMM offers scholarships and awards to students. Learn more.
Awards Oversight Committee
Nancy Jo Nicholas, Chair
Obie P. Amacker, Jr.
Cary Crawford
Joseph P. Indusi
Dennis L. Mangan
Teressa McKinney
James W. Tape
Past Award Winners
Vincent J. DeVito, Sr., Distinguished Service Award*
| 1979 | W.A. Higinbotham |
| 1980 | Louis Doher |
| 1981 | Roger M. Smith |
| 1982 | G. Robert Keepin |
| 1983 | IAEA Department of Safeguards |
| 1984 | Carl A. Bennett and Vincent J. DeVito |
| 1985 | Dipak Gupta and James Jacobs |
| 1986 | James W. Lee |
| 1987 | E.R. Johnson and James D. Williams |
| 1988 | George W. Evans and Haruo Natsume |
| 1989 | Leon Green and Art Waligura |
| 1990 | Douglas George and John Jaech |
| 1991 | Carleton Bingham and Fred Tingey |
| 1992 | Mitsuho Hirata |
| 1993 | Ralph Lumb and Cecil Sonnier |
| 1994 | Raymond J. Parsick |
| 1995 | Kenneth Sanders |
| 1996 | Richard Schneider |
| 1997 | Tohru Haginoya and Richard Hooper |
| 1998 | James A. Larrimore |
| 1999 | Frank Houck and Bruno Pellaud |
| 2000 | Marc Cuypers and Hiromasa Nakano |
| 2001 | Gotthard Stein |
| 2002 | John Carlson and Sergio Guardini |
| 2003 | Hiroyoshi Kurihara and Theodore Sherr |
| 2004 | Myron Kratzer |
| 2005 | Ronald C. Cherry |
| 2007 | Thomas Edward Shea |
| 2007 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |
| 2008 | Howard O. Menlove |
| 2008 | Sen. Pete V. Domenici, Senator of New Mexico |
| 2008 | Bernd Richter |
| 2008 | John T. Mihalczo |
| 2009 | Jill Cooley |
| 2010 | Donnie D. Glidewell, Jr. William H. Hopwood, Jr. |
*This award was renamed in honor of long-time INMM Secretary Vincent J. DeVito, Sr., in 2009.
Edway R. Johson Meritorious Service Award*
| 1980 | Douglas E. George |
| 1982 | John H. Ellis and Ronald D. Smith |
| 1983 | Duane A. Dunn and Edward Owings |
| 1984 | Bernard Gessiness |
| 1987 | Ray Gunnick |
| 1988 | William C. Myre |
| 1989 | Roy G. Cardwell |
| 1991 | Yvonne M. Ferris |
| 1993 | Robert U. Curl |
| 1994 | John Arendt |
| 1995 | Sheldon Kops, Takeshi Osabe and Charles Pietri |
| 1996 | Dennis Mangan |
| 1997 | Joseph Nardi |
| 1998 | James W. Tape |
| 2000 | Vincent DeVito |
| 2003 | Obie P. Amacker, Jr. |
| 2004 | Deborah Dickman |
| 2006 | Scott A. Vance |
| 2007 | Stephen Mladineo |
| 2010 | Edway R. Johnson |
*This award was renamed in honor of Edway R. Johnson in 2010. Ed Johnson was a former INMM president and served as chair of the Waste Management Technical division for more than two decades..
Special Awards
| 1978 | Tri-State Motor Transit Company |
| 1982 | E.R. Johnson Associates - "In Appreciation" |
| 1990 | Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (PNC) of Japan |
| 1994 | Nuclear Material Control Center of Japan |
| 1997 | Sam McDowell - Career Service Award |
| 1997 | Vincent J. DeVito - Career Service Award |
| 1999 | Aquila Technologies Group International |
| 2003 | Russian Methodological and Training Center |
| 2004 | James Tape, Special Service Award |
| 2005 | Norbert Ensslin, Special Service Award |
| Jerry Johnson, Special Service Award | |
| 2006 | Connie P. Hall |
| Leroy (Lee) Leonard | |
| 2007 | Shirley O. Cox |
| 2008 | Safeguards Project Office, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 2010 | William S. Charlton |
Resolutions of Respect
| 1986 | Livingston Ferris and Ella Werner |
| 1995 | W.A. Higinbotham |
| 1996 | Kathie Mangan |
| 1998 | George Kuzmycz |
| 1998 | Robert J. Sorenson |
| 1999 | Priscilla Anne Dwyer |
| 1999 | Vladimir F. Kossitsyn |
| 1999 | Arthur John Martin Waligura |
| 2000 | Louis W. Doher |
| 2001 | Roy Cardwell and Paul Ek |
| 2002 | John Arendt, Jeanne DeVito and Harley Toy |
| 2003 | Katsuyuki Higuchi, Hastings Smith, and James D. Williams |
| 2004 | Cecil Sonnier, Hiroshi Kurihara, and Dale Moul |
| 2005 | Carl G. Ahlberg, James Russell Griggs, Lewis Hansen, Edward Kerr, James W. Lee, Lewis Calvin (Cal) Solem |
| 2006 | Tohru Haginoya, Richard A. Schneider, Fred H. Tingey |
| 2007 | Greta Joy Dicus, Wayne Delmer Ruhter |
| 2008 | G. Robert Keepin, Jr., Herbert J. C. Kouts |
| 2009 | Vince DeVito, Barbara Hammond, Jerry Hickman, Nikolay Isaev, Sheldon Kops, Wilma Williams |
| 2010 | Frederick J. Schultz |
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