The Yant Award was established in 1964 to honor the contributions of William P. Yant who was the first president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). It is presented annually for outstanding contributions in industrial hygiene or allied fields to an individual residing outside the United States.
The award has been given to the following individualls.
- 1965—Henry L. Green, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- 1966—Alberto Hurtado, M.D., Lima, Peru
- 1967—Sven Forssman, M.D., Stockholm, Sweden
- 1968—Leo Noro, M.D., Helsinki, Finland
- 1969—Enrico C. Vigliani, M.D., Milan, Italy
- 1970—Etienne P. Grandjean, M.D., Zurich, Switzerland
- 1971—W.H. Walton, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1972—Jaroslav Teisinger, Sc.D., Prague, Czechoslovakia
- 1973—C.H. Wyndham, Marshalltown, Transvaal, South Africa
- 1974—Clifford G. Warner, Ph.D., South Wales, England
- 1975—Werner Klosterkotter, M.D., Essen, West Germany
- 1976—Marcus M. Wasserman, M.D., Jerusalem, Israel
- 1977—Sibte H. Zaida, Lucknow, India
- 1978—Harry G. Ohman, Vasteras, Sweden
- 1979—Madbuli H. Noweir, Sc.D., Alexandria, Egypt
- 1980—Rene Truhaut, Ph.D., Paris, France
- 1981—Haruno Katsunuma, M.D., Tokyo, Japan
- 1982—Alexander Munn, M.B., C.H.B., D.I.H., Brussels, Belgium
- 1983—Huang Xing-shu, M.D., Hangzhous, China
- 1984—Stuart G. Luxon, Buckinghamshire, England
- 1985—Lars T. Friberg, M.D., Stockholm, Sweden
- 1986—Ernest Mastromatteo, M.D., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 1987—R. Jeremy Sherwood, Abingdon, England
- 1988—Trevor Jones, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia
- 1989—P. Lesley Bidstrup, London, England
- 1990—Dietrich Henschler, Würzburg, Germany
- 1991—Souheil Laham, Ph.D., Ontario, Canada
- 1992—Reinier L. Zielhuis, Oegstgeest, M.D., Netherlands
- 1993—Danilo Sordelli, Ph.D., Milano, Italy
- 1994—Stanley A. Roach, Ph.D., United Kingdom
- 1995—Vladimir Vasak, Ph.D., New South Wales, Australia
- 1996—Berenice I.F. Goelzer, CIH, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1997—Charles A. Veys, M.D., Stoke on Trent, England
- 1998—Michel P. Guillemin, Ph.D., Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1999—Pentti Kalliokoski, Ph.D., Kuopio, Finland
- 2000—Richard C. Brown, PhD, Sheffield, England
- 2001—Paul J. Oldershaw, Ph.D., England
- 2002—Brian Davies, CIH, Australia
- 2003—Tung-Sheng Shih, Taiwan
- 2004—Kurt Leichnitz, Germany
- 2005—Dr. Abu Bakar Che' Man, Malaysia
- 2006—Dr. Alex Burdorf, Netherlands
- 2007—Dr. Nam Won Paik, Seoul, South Korea
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