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Since 2005 the Oughtred Society Award Committee has annually honoured any outstanding
contribution to the world community involved with slide rules and historical calculating
instruments with a prestigious Award. Alongside any such Award, the Committee can also
annually bestow a Fellowship on a member for substantial contributions to the Oughtred
Society itself.
2011 OS AWARD
The OS Award Committee decided that the 2011 OS Award should go to both:
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Bob Koppany
for the creative effort that brought about the "new look" to the JOS - in particular as the
designer of the new front cover, new layout, use of colour and organising new contacts and
agreements with the printer, for doing a superb job as the new Editor of the JOS and many
hours of typesetting and for the pioneering graphic design and layout of many other OS
publications such as: "The Slide Rule Reference Manual"
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David Rance
for his many excellent and well-researched presentations and articles, often on unusual items
and made very entertaining and humorous, for his willingness and invaluable assistance to our
German authors to improve the English translation of their articles, and for his help and
involvement in both KRING and the OS, by helping to drive committees, improvements and activities
in our global collecting community
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The Robert K. Otnes Award for Scholarly Achievement
This award was established to recognise lifelong scholarly achievement in the research,
documentation and publishing of articles and books related to the history, evolution,
and development of slide rules and other calculating devices.
First given to its namesake, Dr. Robert K. Otnes, in grateful appreciation of his
outstanding scholarship and the intellectual support and kind encouragement he has
offered to the members of The Oughtred Society.
Robert K. Otnes
Presented September 24, 2011
2011 FELLOWSHIPS
In 2011 the OS Award Committee decided that a Fellowship should be bestowed on:
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David Sweetman
for being the "design brain" behind the on-line OS Bulletin/Message Board, your
articles in the JOS, becoming an Associate Editor for the JOS and compiling the
Proceedings for the IM2011
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Marion Moon
for your substantial contributions through the scholarly quality of your in-depth articles for the JOS
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Stefan Drechsler
for establishing and maintaining the information rich website "The Encyclopaedia of Mechanical
Calculating", painstakingly researched and well-written articles for the website and
presentations at International Meetings (IM's) and the German collector's group (RST)
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Eli Maor
for your in-depth articles in the JOS and publishing more than seven books - many with
topics like "e: The Story of a Number" being closely related to the aspirations of the
OS and its members
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Timo Leipälä
for your in-depth articles in the JOS and presentations at International Meetings (IM's)
and the German collector's group (RST)
For more details see:
Award recipients receive a framed certificate (such as this one awarded posthumously
to Michael O'Leary) and a gold-coloured pin in a special presentation box.
Members bestowed with a Fellowship receive a letter of accreditation and
silver-coloured pin in a presentation box
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