The Larry Foreman Award was created to recognize an individual for substantive and sustained innovation and excellence in target fabrication. A new honoree is recognized at each TFSM.
If you have a nomination for the Larry Foreman Award, please submit it to TFSM26 [at] llnl.gov (TFSM26[at]llnl[dot]gov) before 07/02/2026.
Past winners include:
1999: Pete Gobby (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2001: Ken Schultz (General Atomics)
2003: Steve Letts (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2005: Jim Hoffer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2006: Masaru Takagi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2008: Russell Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2010: Diana Schroen (General Atomics)
2012: Bob Day (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2015: Marty Hoppe, Sr. (General Atomics)
2017: Bob Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2019: Carlos Castro (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Blaine Randolf (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2022: Abbas Nikroo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2024: Jay Crippen (General Atomics) and Suhas Bhandarkar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
