The very first Erik Rotheim Gold Medal was awarded August 28, 1970, to Dr. Lyle Goodhue in Oslo, Norway by Mr. H. Robin Hearn, President of the Federation of European Aerosol Associations, which represented members in fourteen western European countries. Also present was C. F. Michelet, president of the Norwegian Aerosol Association. At the time, world production of aerosols exceeded 4 billion units a year, with 3 billion units being produced annually in America. Following the ceremony, Dr. Goodhue and his wife toured the Scandinavian countries, Scotland and England before returning to the United States. Articles, The Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, September 30, 1970 and the November 1970 Philnews, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The 2010/2011 BAMA Anniversary Director's Report mentions this on p. 13 at http://www.bama.co.uk/pdf/General%20Publications/Annual%20report%202010-11.pdf also, pictures of medalsFile:Dr. Lyle D. Goodhue Medals.jpg
Herald Tribune Current Problems Forum, November 17, 1943 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY. Lyle Goodhue’s 1:45 pm talk was on the “War Against Mosquitoes”. A research chemist with the USDA’s Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, his speech was also broadcast later at 3:15 pm on radio station WJZ. http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files/1940s/1943/43_11nov/%5Bn%5D43-11-17-(Wed).pdf Among others, both President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, spoke in the same Forum. The full text of Dr. Goodhue’s speech was reprinted in a New York Herald Tribune newspaper article dated November
21, 1943.
[1] Patent No. 2,331,117 (Serial No. 413,474) for an aerosol “dispensing apparatus”, filed by Lyle D. Goodhue and William N. Sullivan on October 3, 1941 (including dispenser drawing), and granted October 5, 1943.
Kenneth A. Spencer Award past winners at http://cas.umkc.edu/chemistry/kcacs/spencer/pastwinners/pastwinners.html . The sixteenth annual Spencer award, which consisted of a bronze medal and $1000, was presented to Lyle Goodhue February 17, 1970 at the Hilton Inn, Kansas City, Missouri. His acceptance speech was “Highlights in a Career of Agricultural Research”.
John Scott Award Recipients at http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/johnscottaward/js1941-1950.html. Dr. Goodhue received the John Scott Award September 20, 1945 from Walter B. Gibbons, a member of the
Philadelphia Board of City Trusts, meeting at the American Philosophical Society, 5th and Chestnut, Philadelphia,
PA. He split the $1000 honorarium with William Sullivan. Other John Scott Award recipients have been Mme.
Marie Currie (1921), Orville Wright (1925), Thomas A. Edison (1929), and Sir Alexander Fleming (1944).
