Awards & Prizes

AILU Award

This award is made annually to recognise the individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the industrial use of lasers in the UK. The AILU Award is presented to an individual for significant contribution to laser materials processing and that preferably has wider benefit for the industrial laser user community.

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS

  • 2008 - Tim Weedon
    2008 - Tim Weedon
    Tim Weedon wins 2008 AILU award. The AILU Award is presented each year to recognise an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the industrial use of lasers in the UK. The 2008 winner is Tim Weedon in recognition of his successful pioneering efforts to introduce Nd:YAG-based machining systems into the UK, starting in the early 1980s, and for his being a tireless champion of appropriately applying laser based manufacturing.
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  • 2007 - Malcolm Gower & Phil Rumsby 2007 - Malcolm Gower & Phil Rumsby
    2007 - Malcolm Gower & Phil Rumsby
    In recognition of their pioneering work with Excimer laser processing and the successful development as founders of Exitech Ltd. - a truly world class laser systems company. Malcolm and Phil have been active in laser micromachining for nearly 20 years and their drive and enthusiasm has been a key factor in the expansion of the UK's capability in industrial micromachining applications and systems.
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  • 2006 - David Stroud
    2006 - David Stroud
    For his outstanding contribution to the industrial use of lasers in the UK
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  • 2005 - Bill Steen
    2005 - Bill Steen
    AILU's first President
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  • 2004 - Denis Hall
    2004 - Denis Hall
    Innovator of industrial lasers and their applications
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  • 2003 - Colin Webb
    2003 - Colin Webb
    Entrepreneur and gas laser innovator. After receiving the Award Colin Webb wrote: "I feel very proud to be honoured by AILU in this way. The Association represents the UK’s forum for the community of those who use lasers to solve problems in real world engineering applications. I would like to think that together with my colleagues at Oxford Lasers Ltd we have made some contribution to this field."
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  • 2001 - David Dyson
    2001 - David Dyson
    Innovator in slow axial flow industrial laser design
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  • 2000 - Martin Adams, Derek Russell & Frank van Rompuy
    2000 - Martin Adams, Derek Russell & Frank van Rompuy
    Developers of the first fast axial flow CO2 laser
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  • 1999 - Maurice Gates
    1999 - Maurice Gates
    Entrepreneur and pioneer of lasers for fine metal cutting
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  • 1998 - Jim Wright
    1998 - Jim Wright
    Entrepreneur and pioneer of industrial Nd:YAG laser applications
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  • 1997 - Peter Houldcroft
    1997 - Peter Houldcroft
    Inventor of oxygen assisted laser cutting


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