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==Awards and honors== Gilbreth received numerous awards and honors for her contributions. * Gilbreth is the recipient of twenty-three [[honorary degree]]s from schools such as Rutgers University, [[Princeton University]], Brown University, [[Smith College]], and the [[University of Michigan]].{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=45}}<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/11/30/archives/norden-is-honored-for-his-inventions-creator-of-bombsight-and.html |title=Norden Is Honored For His Inventions ... Other Award Winners Include E.G. Budd, R.E. Flanders and Dr. Lillian Gilbreth |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 30, 1944 |access-date=September 29, 2012}}</ref> * Her portrait hangs in the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref name="NPG">{{cite web|title=American Women: A selection from the National Portrait Gallery β Lillian Moller Gilbreth |url=http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/nwomen/gilbreth2.htm |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=April 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613093314/http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/nwomen/gilbreth2.htm |archive-date=June 13, 2010 }}</ref> * The Gilbreth Engineering Library at Purdue University is named in honor of Lillian and Frank Gilbreth.{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=38}} * In 1921, Lillian Gilbreth was the second person to be named an honorary member of the American Society of Industrial Engineers.{{sfnp|Kass-Simon|Farnes|1990|p=159}} * She joined the British Women's Engineering Society in 1924.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_11.html|title=The Woman Engineer|website=www.theiet.org|access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> * Gilbreth was accepted to the membership of the [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]] in 1926, becoming its second female member.{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=45}}<ref name=NYT/>{{sfnp|Graham|1998|p=105}} * In 1931 she received the first [[Gilbreth Medal]], which was initiated in honor of her late husband.{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=45}}<ref name="SWETimeline">{{cite web |url=http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 |title=The SWE Story... timeline of achievement |date=December 18, 2018 |publisher=[[Society of Women Engineers]]}}</ref> * In 1941 the Purdue University chapter of [[Mortar Board]], a national honor society, named Gilbreth an honorary member.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 15, 2016|title=Archive|url=https://purduemortarboard.com/archive/|access-date=September 20, 2021|website=Mortar Board|language=en-US|archive-date=September 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920221259/https://purduemortarboard.com/archive/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * In 1944 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Gilbreth and her husband (posthumously) the [[Henry Laurence Gantt Medal]] for their contributions to industrial engineering.{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=45}}<ref name=NYT/>{{sfnp|Graham|1998|p=105}} * In 1950 Gilbreth became the first honorary member of the newly created [[Society of Women Engineers]].<ref name="SWETimeline"/> * In 1951 she was awarded the [[Wallace Clark Award]].<ref>Michael C. Wood, John Cunningham Wood (2003). ''Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Critical Evaluations in Business and ...'' p. 175.</ref> * The University of California's alumni association named Gilbreth the 1954 Alumna of the Year.<ref name=Calalum>{{cite web|title=Alumnus/a of the Year Recipients|date=January 27, 2010|url=http://alumni.berkeley.edu/services/alumni-awards/alumnus-year|publisher=Cal Alumni Association|access-date=April 23, 2011|archive-date=October 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002052943/http://alumni.berkeley.edu/services/alumni-awards/alumnus-year|url-status=dead}}</ref> * In 1965 Gilbreth became the first woman elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="SWEArticle">{{Cite news | last = Finken | first = De Anne | title = Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ph.D.: A Legend in her own time β and now! | newspaper = SWE Magazine | pages =16β22 | publisher = Society of Women Engineers | date =Spring 2005 | url = http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/images/stories/lillian.pdf | access-date =April 15, 2011}}</ref><ref name="NAE">{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects20676/31202.aspx|title=National Academy of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers β Gilbreth Lectures|date=April 2011|publisher=[[National Academy of Engineering]]}}</ref> * In 1966 Gilbreth became the first woman to receive the [[Hoover Medal]].{{efn|The Hoover Medal, an engineering prize awarded jointly by five engineering societies, was awarded to Gilbreth for her "contributions to motion study and to the recognition of the principle that management engineering and human relations are intertwined" and "her unselfish application of energy and creative efforts in modifying industrial and home environments for the handicapped has resulted in full employment of their capabilities and elevation of their self-esteem".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/unit-awards/hoover-medal/past|title=ASME β Past Hoover Medal Recipients |publisher=[[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]]| access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref> }} * She was made an honorary Member of the British [[Women's Engineering Society]] in 1967.<ref name=":0" /> * Gilbreth was a recipient of Gold Medal award from the US National Institute of Social Sciences.{{sfnp|Weber|1997|p=45}} * In 1984 the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]] issued a 40-cent [[Great Americans series]] postage stamp in Gilbreth's honor,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub512/welcome.htm |title=Women On Stamps β Publication 512 |date=April 2003 |publisher=[[United States Postal Service]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428213716/http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub512/welcome.htm |archive-date=April 28, 2006 }}</ref>{{efn|Although the [[American Psychological Association]] identified Gilbreth as the first psychologist to be so commemorated, psychologists Dr. Gary Brucato and Dr. [[John D. Hogan]] later questioned this claim, noting that [[John Dewey]] had appeared on an American stamp in 1968, seventeen years earlier; however, Brocato and Hogan also emphasized that Gilbreth was the first female psychologist to be so honored.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Brucato Jr.|first=Gary|author2=John D. Hogan |title=Psychologists on postage stamps|journal=The General Psychologist|date=Spring 1999|volume=34|issue=1|pages=65}}</ref> A comprehensive international list of psychologists on stamps (compiled by psychology historian [[Ludy T. Benjamin]]) indicates that Gilbreth was the second female psychologist commemorated by a postage stamp in all the world, preceded only by [[Maria Montessori]] in [[India]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Benjamin|first=Ludy T.|title=Why Can't Psychology Get a Stamp?|journal=Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies|year=2003|volume=5|issue=4|pages=443β454|doi=10.1023/A:1026071631669}}</ref> }} * In 1995, Gilbreth was inducted into the US [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>[https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/lillian-moller-gilbreth/ National Women's Hall of Fame, Lillian Moller Gilbreth]</ref>
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