CSMAA Hall of Fame

The alumni association proudly honors exemplary members of the Mines community through the awards below. Click on the award for a listing of past recipients.

Alumnus/na of the Future   Honorary Members of CSMAA  van Diest Gold Medalists 
Athletics Hall of Fame  Melville F. Coolbaugh  Young Alumnus/na 
George R. Brown Medalists  Mines Medalists Distinguished Achievement Awardees
Honorary Degree Recipients  Outstanding Alumnus/na    





Note: You'll find short bios and photographs for some individuals, but this is a growing collection. If no information is provided and you are able to supply a bio and photo, please do so. We prefer this be sent via email, but U.S. mail also works: CSMAA Communications, P.O. Box 1410, Golden, CO 80402. 

Nominate someone for an award

Honorary Degree Recipients:

Honorary degrees are awarded to those persons, whether or not alumni or members of the CSM community, who have rendered unusual or distinguished national or international service, or who have made unusual or distinguished personal or career contributions deserving of the highest recognition.

  • Aki, Keiti 1991
  • Alderson, Victor C. 1938
  • Allott, Gordon L. 1967
  • Alvarez, Walter 2003
  • Anderson, Robert O. 1978
  • Ansell, George S. 1998
  • Aspinall, Wayne D. 1965
  • Augustine, Norman R. 1999
  • Banks, Charles A. 1940
  • Barber, Charles F. 1981
  • Barnett, John T. 1939
  • Barrett, William J. 2004
  • Baum, Eleanor 1999
  • Beach, Roger C. 1995
  • Bechtel, Stephen D Jr. 2007
  • Bement, Arden L. Jr. 2004
  • Berthoud, E.L. 1903
  • Bin Yousef, Omair 2004
  • Bird, R. Byron 1986
  • Birgeneau, Robert J. 2007
  • Bloch, Erich 1985
  • Blow, A.A. 1910
  • Born, Allen 1992
  • Brainerd, Arthur E. 1955
  • Branscomb, Lewis 1999
  • Brimacombe, J. Keith 1994
  • Bromley, D. Allan 1992
  • Brown, George R. 1962
  • Brown, Hank 2008
  • Browne, John P., Lord of Madingley 2003
  • Bryson, Reid A. 2003
  • Bulkley, Frank 1898
  • Bull, George M. 1938
  • Bunker, Arthur 1950
  • Butler, Bert S. 1929
  • Butler, G.M. 1922
  • Caetani, Prince G. 1924
  • Chedsey, William R. 1938
  • Chesbro’, Stephen D. 1998
  • Chevalier, Willard T. 1936
  • Cohen, Morris 1985
  • Conger, Harry M. 1988
  • Coolbaugh, Melville F. 1949
  • Coors, Joseph 1969
  • Coors, William K. 1986
  • Crane, Clinton H. 1929
  • Croneis, Carey 1949
  • Cronin, James W. 2008
  • Davis, Morgan J. 1964
  • de Moraes, Antonio 1989
  • de Moraes, Jose E. 1989
  • Degolyer, E.L. 1925
  • Dempsey, Stanley 2006
  • Dobbin, C.E. 1952
  • Doolittle, T.C. 1927
  • Dorr, John V.N. 1956
  • Dresselhaus, Mildred S. 1993
  • Early, Patrick J. 1994
  • Eaton, Gordon P. 2001
  • Erickson, William H. 2002
  • Ersheng, Meng 2005
  • Everhart, Thomas E. 1990
  • Farrar, Fred 1939
  • Fertig, Wendell W. 1951
  • Finch, John W. 1938
  • Fisher, William L. 2002
  • Gates, Charles 1985
  • Gilbert, J. Freeman 2004
  • Good, Mary L. 2000
  • Gould, Andrew F. 2004
  • Green, Cecil H. 1953
  • Hale, Gen. Irving 1905
  • Hammond, John Hayes 1909
  • Hardinge, H.W. 1917
  • Hares, Charles J. 1956
  • Hazen, Wayne C. 1999
  • Hecker, Siegfried S. 2006
  • Henderson, Charles W. 1930
  • Hennebach, Ralph L. 1990
  • Hitch, Charles J. 1979
  • Hoover, Herbert C. 1935
  • Howard, Jack B. 2002
  • Hui, Stephen S.F. 1986
  • Iwasaki, Iwao 2001
  • Jackson, Shirley 2006
  • Jackson, Thomas H. 1931
  • Kafadar, Ahmed D. 1987
  • Keeler, W.W. 1961
  • Ketchum, Milo S. 1926
  • Kirkpatrick, Jean J. 1983
  • Koch, Walter K. 1958
  • Kranzberg, Melvin 1989
  • Krug, Julius 1949
  • Labriola, Francis J. 1995
  • Lafitte, Pierre 1985
  • Laise, Frederick 1921
  • Lamm, Richard D. 1977
  • Levashov, Evgeny 2007
  • Levenspiel, Octave 2000
  • Levorsen, A.I. 1942
  • Love, John A. 1966
  • Low, A.H. 1922
  • MacDonald, Donald S. 1976
  • MacGregor, Ian K. 1984
  • Malozemoff, Plato 1957
  • Marks, J.H. 1925
  • Marsman, J.H. 1939
  • Mathewson, E.P. 1920
  • McBride, Guy T., Jr. 1984
  • McCarty, Perry L. 1992
  • McCollum, Leonard F. 1956
  • McGee, Dean A. 1968
  • McLaughlin, Donald H. 1955
  • McNaughton, Ronald R. 1963
  • McNutt, Marcia K.  2011
  • Mehl, Robert 1952
  • Mendenhall, W.C. 1928
  • Miller, Donald E. 1999
  • Milliken, Frank R. 1966
  • Moss, Milton 1882
  • Murdy, Wayne W. 2007
  • Nix, William D. 2001
  • Norlin, George 1935
  • Norton, Gale A. 2002
  • Oddie, Tasker L. 1934
  • Orbach, Raymond L. 2005
  • Parker, Richard A. 1930
  • Paul, Donald 2009
  • Pecora, William J. 1970
  • Peterson, Ralph R. 2000
  • Petrie, Thomas A. 2005
  • Phillips, Orie L. 1941
  • Pimentel, George C. 1987
  • Place, John B.M. 1973
  • Press, Frank 1988
  • Pyle, Walter K. 1958
  • Ransom, Harry H. 1972
  • Raymond, H.M. 1922
  • Rickard, T.A. 1927
  • Roberts , Harold D. 1946
  • Roberts, Walter Orr 1980
  • Rockefeller, David 1974
  • Romer, Roy R. 1987
  • Schmitt, Harrison H. 1974
  • Schott, Max 1940
  • Seaton, Fred A. 1960
  • Shakespeare, Frank 1975
  • Shannon, Phillip F. 1939
  • Skinner, Brian 1998
  • Sloss, Laurence L. 1989
  • Smith, George Otis 1928
  • Solow, Robert M. 1996
  • Spaght, Monroe E. 1971
  • Stephens, Frank Jr. 1996
  • Stockmar, Ted P. 1997
  • Strong, Maurice F. 1993
  • Swart, W.G. 1917
  • Tapia, Richard A. 2003
  • Tchobanoglous, George 2005
  • Thompson, Jack E. 1993
  • Thomson, F.A. 1923
  • Tippett, J.M. 1924
  • Trefny John U. 2006
  • Truly, Richard H. 2002
  • Turner, Scott 1930
  • van Diest, Edmond C. 1937
  • Van Waterschoot, Van Der G. 1924
  • Verity, Charles 1982
  • Vest, Charles M. 2005
  • Wadsworth, Milton E. 1990
  • Ward, Milton H. 1994
  • Weimer, Robert 2008
  • Wheeler, Mary F. 2008
  • Whisler, J. Stephen 2001
  • White, Robert M. 1991
  • Widnall, Sheila E. 2000
  • Wood, Russell L. 1997
  • Wrather, William E. 1947
  • Wulf, William A. 2003
  • Yates, Albert C. 2003
  • Yergin, Daniel 2008
  • Yoder, Hatten S., Jr. 1995
  • Young, Lewis E. 1951
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