Thorsteinn I Sigfusson

The Taming of the Proton

Appendix IX

IAHE

The following have been awarded the IAHE awards:

 

Jules Verne Award:

John O'M. Bockris, USA and Cesare Marchetti, Austria,   (1998)
Tokio Ohta, Japan and Robert M. Zweig, USA,   (2000)
William D. van Vorst, U.S.A. and Mylopore V.C. Sastri, India,   (2002)
Bragi Arnason, Iceland and Carl-Jochen Winter, Germany,   (2004)

Zong Qiang Mao, China, and David Sanborn Scott, Canada (2006)

 

Rudolph A. Erren Award:

World Energy NETwork (WE-NET) Project, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, MITI, Japan,   (1998)
Victor A. Goltsov, Ukraine and Vladimir D. Rusanov, Russia,   (2000)
BMW AG, Germany,   (2002)
Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Netherlands ,   (2004)

Linde A.G., Germany, (2006)

Shoichi Furuhama, Japan (2006)

 

Sir William Grove Award

Ballard Power Systems, Canada,   (1998)
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, USA, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Germany/USA, and Ford Motor Company, USA,   (2000)
UTC Fuel Cells, U.S.A.,   (2002)
Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan, Honda Motor Company, Ltd., Japan and General Motors Corporation, U.S.A.,   (2004)

Milan M Jaksic, Serbia, (2006)

 

Akira Mitsui Award

Jun Miyake, Japan,   (2002)
Peter Lindblad, Sweden,   (2004)

 

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Award

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S.A.,   (1998)
Aerospatiele Matra, France,   (2000)
Airbus S.A.S.,   (2004)

ROSCOSMOS, Russian Federal Space Agency, Russia, (2006)

Iwatani International Industry Co.,Ltd., Japan (2006).

 

The IAHE is well run and seems to function with a very small number of staff. Perhaps the key to this is a well run body or board of directors which in itself tells a story about active people in the world hydrogen movement today. The officers of the Association are:

T. Nejat Veziroglu, President; Tokio Ohta, Japan, Vice President for the Pacific and Southeast Asia; David Scott, Canada, Vice President for the Americas; Carl-Jochen Winter, Germany, Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Melvin Morgenstern, U.S.A., Legal Counselor; and William J.D. Escher, U.S.A., Secretary.

The Board of Directors members (as of January 2007) are: H.K. Abdel-Aal, Egypt; Juan Carlos Bolcich, Argentina; James E. Funk, U.S.A.; Victor A. Goltsov, Ukraine; Stanislav R. Malyshenko, Russia; Zong Qiang Mao, P.R. China; Cesare Marchetti, Italy; Richard E. Rocheleau, U.S.A.; Jacques Saint-Just, France; Yasukazu Saito, Japan; O.N. Srivastava, India; Giuseppe Spazzafumo, Italy; Alexander K. Stuart, Canada; William D. Van Vorst, USA; Frano Barbir, Croatia; Tapan Bose, Canada; Gibril S. Eljrushi, Libya; Inci Eroglu, Turkey; Nazim Muradov, U.S.A.; Thorsteinn I.Sigfusson, Iceland; Byeong Soo Oh, Korea; and John W. Sheffield, U.S.A.