| Max Jakob Memorial Award  https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/unit-awards/the-max-jakob-memorial-award | 
| Year | Click to enlarge | Name | Country | References | 
| 1961 |  | Ernst R. G. Eckert | U.S.A. | |
| 1962 |  | Llewellyn M.K. Boelter | U.S.A. | |
| 1963 |  | William H. McAdams | U.S.A. | |
| 1964 |  | Ernst Schmidt | Germany | |
| 1965 |  | Hoyt C. Hottel | U.S.A. | |
| 1966 |  | Sir Owen Saunders | U.K. | |
| 1967 |  | Thomas B. Drew | U.S.A. | |
| 1968 |  | Shiro Nukiyama | Japan | |
| 1969 |  | Samson S. Kutateladze | U.S.S.R. | |
| 1970 |  | Warren M. Rohsenow | U.S.A. | |
| 1971 |  | James W. Westwater | U.S.A. | |
| 1972 |  | Karl A. Gardner | U.S.A. | |
| 1973 |  | Ulrich Grigull | Germany | |
| 1974 |  | Peter Grassmann | Switzerland | |
| 1975 |  | Robert G. Deissler | U.S.A. | |
| 1976 |  | Ephraim M. Sparrow | U.S.A. | |
| 1977 |  | D. Brian Spalding | U.K. | |
| 1978 |  | Niichi Nishiwaki | Japan | |
| 1979 |  | Stuart W. Churchill | U.S.A. | |
| 1980 |  | Ralph A. Seban | U.S.A. | |
| 1981 |  | Chang-Lin Tien | U.S.A. | |
| 1982 |  | Simon Ostrach | U.S.A. | |
| 1983 |  | Bei Tse Chao | U.S.A. | |
| 1984 |  | Alexander Louis London | U.S.A. | |
| 1985 |  | Frank Kreith | U.S.A. | |
| 1986 |  | Raymond Viskanta | U.S.A. | |
| 1987 |  | S. George Bankoff | U.S.A. | |
| 1988 |  | Yasuo Mori | Japan | Brochure | 
| 1989 |  | James P. Hartnett | U.S.A. | |
| 1990 |  | Richard J. Goldstein | U.S.A. | |
| 1991 |  | Franz X. Mayinger | Germany | |
| 1992 |  | William M. Kays | U.S.A. | |
| 1993 |  | Benjamin Gebhart | U.S.A. | |
| 1994 |  | Geoffrey F. Hewitt | U.K. | |
| 1995 |  | Arthur E. Bergles | U.S.A. | |
| 1996 |  | Robert Siegel | U.S.A. | |
| 1997 |  | John R. Howell | U.S.A. | |
| 1998 |  | Alexander I. Leontiev | Russia | |
| 1999 |  | Adrian Bejan | U.S.A. | |
| 2000 |  | Vedat Arpaci | U.S.A. | |
| 2001 |  | John C. Chen | U.S.A. | |
| 2002 |  | Yogesh Jaluria | U.S.A. | |
| 2003 |  | Kenneth J. Bell | U.S.A. | |
| 2004 |  | Vijay K. Dhir | U.S.A. | |
| 2005 |  | Ping Cheng | China | |
| 2006 |  | Kwang-Tzu Yang | U.S.A. | |
| 2007 |  | Wen-Jei Yang | U.S.A. | |
| 2008 |  | Suhas Patankar | U.S.A. | |
| 2009 |  | Ivan Catton | U.S.A. | |
| 2010 |  | Amir Faghri | U.S.A. | |
| 2011 |  | Dimos Poulikakos | Switzerland | |
| 2012 |  | Wataru Nakayama | Japan | Brochure | 
| 2013 |  | Kenneth R. Diller | U.S.A. | UT Austin | 
| 2014 |  | P.S. Ayyaswam | U.S.A. | UCLA | 
| 2015 | no recipient | |||
| 2016 |  | Je-Chin Han | U.S.A. | Texas A&M | 
| 2017 | no recipient | |||
| 2018 |  | John W. Rose | U.K. | UKNHTC | 
| 2019 |  | Arun Majumdar | U.S.A. | |
| 2020 |  | Peter Wayner Jr. | U.S.A. | RPI News | 
| 2021 |  | Michael Modest | U.S.A. | UC Merced | 
| 2022 |  | G.P. “Bud” Peterson | U.S.A. | Georgia Tech | 
| 2023 | no recipient | |||
| 2024 |  | Walter Grassi | Italy |