Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award 

This award was established in 1943 as a tribute to Donald E. Cummings, AIHA's third president. It is given for outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of the profession of industrial hygiene. The recipient presents the Cummings Memorial Lecture at the AIHce.

2010 -- Neil J. Zimmerman, PhD, PE, CIH
2009 -- William C. Hinds, ScD, CIH
2008 -- James H. Vincent, PhD, DSc, FRSC
2007 -- Howard J. Cohen, PhD, CIH
2006 -- Steven P. Levine, PhD, CIH
2005 -- S.Z. "Zack" Mansdorf, PhD, CIH, CSP, QEP
2004 -- D. Jeff Burton, CIH, PE
2003 -- Harry J. Ettinger, MS, CIH, PE
2002 -- Jack E. Peterson, PhD, CIH
2001 -- Dave Verma, PhD, CIH, PE, ROH
2000 -- Jeffrey S. Lee, PhD, CIH (posthumously)
1999 -- Edward R. Hermann, PhD, CE
1998 -- Henry B. Lick, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, ROH
1997 -- Jeremiah R. Lynch
1996 -- William A. Burgess
1995 -- Knowlton J. Caplan
1994 -- Robert L. Harris, Ph.D.
1993 -- David M. Trayer
1992 -- Samuel Elkin, Ph.D.
1991 -- Morton Lippman, Ph.D.
1990 -- Gene X. Kortsha
1989 -- John A. Pendergrass
1988 -- Lewis J. Cralley, Ph.D.
1987 -- Dohrman H. Byers
1986 -- Morton Corn, Ph.D.
1985 -- Ralph G. Smith, Ph.D.
1984 -- David G. Fraser, Sc.D.
1983 -- Melvin W. First, Sc.D.
1982 -- Edward J. Baier
1981 -- Kenneth W. Nelson
1980 -- Paul D. Halley
1979 -- Verald K. Rowe, Ph.D.
1978 -- David W. Fassett, M.D.
1977 -- John A. Zapp, Ph.D.
1976 -- Clyde M. Berry, Ph.D.
1975 -- William B. Deichmann, Ph.D., M.D. (Hon.)
               Robert A. Kehoe, M.D.
1974 -- Mary O. Amdur, Ph.D.
1973 -- George D. Clayton
1972 -- Harry F. Schulte
1971 -- Lester V. Cralley, Ph.D.
1970 -- Edgar C. Barnes
1969 -- Herbert E. Stokinger, Ph.D.
1968 -- Willis G. Hazard
1967 -- Hervey B. Elkins, Ph.D.
1966 -- Don D. Irish, Ph.D.
1965 -- Charles R. Williams, Ph.D.
1964 -- Anna M. Baetjer, Sc.D.
1963 -- Allen D. Brandt, Sc.D.
1962 -- Herbert T. Walworth
              Robert A. Kehoe, M.D. (Lecture)
1961 -- Manfred Bowditch (Posthumously)
              William G. Fredrick, Sc.D. (Lecture)
1960 -- Gordon C. Harrold, Ph.D.
1959 -- No award
1958 -- John J. Bloomfield
1957 -- Helmuth H. Schrenk, Ph.D.
1956 -- Henry F. Smyth, Jr., Ph.D.
1955 -- James H. Sterner, M.D.
1954 -- Frank A. Patty
1953 -- Warren A. Cook
1952 -- Leonard Greenburg, M.D.
1951 -- Theodore F. Hatch, Sc.D.
1950    Philip Drinker, Sc.D.
1948 -- Alice Hamilton, M.D.
1947 -- William P. Yant, Sc.D.
1944 -- Leroy U. Gardner, M.D.