Former ASHRAE President Thomas Watson Honored by Institute of Refrigeration
Receives J&E Hall Gold Medal Award for work with chillers, heat pumps
ATLANTA – Thomas Watson, a former ASHRAE president and retired chief engineer at Daikin Applied, has been awarded the Institute of Refrigeration’s (IOR) J&E Hall Gold Medal Award for his ground-breaking work to improve the efficiency of chillers and industrial heat pumps. The J&E Hall Gold Medal Award recognizes the most noteworthy practical contributions in the field of refrigeration.
Watson’s work included the introduction of large capacity oil-free magnetic bearing compressors and the first centrifugal chiller with zero-ozone depleting potential. He also was the lead engineer in the development of the Templifier® industrial heat pump.