The CEC Russell B. Scott Memorial Awards will be presented to the recipients prior to the plenary presentation on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.


The Cryogenic Engineering Conference board has established the Russell B. Scott Memorial Award to recognize the best papers published in the Advances in Cryogenic Engineering.

The CEC Russell B. Scott Memorial Awards consists of an award certificate and a $1,000 honorarium and will be presented at the 2021 Conference.

The following have been selected as best CEC papers presented at the 2019 Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 755:

Best Research Paper:

Entropy generation in the woven mesh regenerator filler of cryocoolers
paper: 012064
Ali Ghavami, Tao Fang and S Mostafa Ghiaasiaan

Best Application Paper:

“Thermal engineering of optical mirrors for use at cryogenic temperature inside a LHC magnet cryostat”
paper: 012129
F Micolon, T Dijoud, H Mainaud Durand, V Parma, V Rude and M Sosin