The Stuhlinger Medal, whose official name is the "Ernst Stuhlinger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion", is the highest honor in the field of electric propulsion for spacecraft bestowed by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS), the main professional society in that field, to persons who made outstanding contributions to the science, technology or development of electric propulsion.

The Stuhlinger Medal was established by the ERPS in 2005 as the "Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion", then renamed after its first recipient Ernst Stuhlinger

Ernst Stuhlinger

Ernst Stuhlinger was a German-born American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team at the US Army, and later, NASA...

 (1913–2008), the German-born American rocket scientist, shortly after his death in 2008. The medal is typically awarded every two years during the ERPS's main conference, the International Electric Propulsion Conference.

Recipients

• Mariano Andrenucci (Italy) (2011)
• Yoshihiro Arakawa (Japan) (2011)
• Monika Auweter-Kurtz (Germany) (2009)
• David "Dave" C. Byers (USA)
• Robert G. Jahn (USA)
• Harold R. Kaufman
  Harold R. Kaufman
  Harold R. Kaufman is an American physicist, noted for his development of electrostatic ion thrusters for NASA during the 1950s and '60s...
  
   (USA)
• Vladimir Kim (Russia)
• Kyoichi Kuriki (Japan)
• Horst W. Loeb (Germany) (2005)
• Alexei I. Morozov (Russia)
• Ernst Stuhlinger
  Ernst Stuhlinger
  Ernst Stuhlinger was a German-born American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team at the US Army, and later, NASA...
  
  (USA)
• Paul Wilbur (USA) (2007)
• Askold Zharinov (Russia) (2011)