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The Oughtred Society Hall of Fame. Since 2005, the Oughtred Society Award Committee honours outstanding contributions to the world community involved with slide rules and historical calculating instruments. The Oughtred Society Fellowship honours substantial contributions to the Oughtred Society itself. 
 Awards given to the 2009 Recipients Their are three Oughtred Society Awards for 2009 that are shared by the following individuals: Werner Girbardt & Werner Schmidt - for organising four international science and technology symposia at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, for setting up the "Rechentechnische Sammlung" museum collection and for creating an information rich on-line catalogue of the slide rules and other calculating instruments from the collection. Michael (Mike) V. Konshak - for his positive and proactive role as webmaster for the Oughtred Society, for the success of his on-line "Slide Rule Museum" in triggering interest around in the world for slide rule collecting and for his educational activities in setting up a curriculum and associated worldwide slide rule loan programme to further the teaching of mathematics and the use of slide rules in schools. Werner Rudowski - for his in-depth historical research into English and German slide rules from the 17th to 19th century, for the resulting high-qulity ground-breaking publications, presentations and exhibitions and for his lectures to the public to keep the importance of logarithms and slide rules alive. For more details see:
Award recipients receive a framed certificate (such as this one awarded posthumously to Michael O'Leary) and a gold Society pin in a presentation box.
The 2009 Fellows include Don Black, Robert Adams, Ronald van Riet and Juergen Nestler. Fellowship recipients receive a silver Society pin in a presentation box. |
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