The Working Group also awards the "Nordic Process Control Award" to persons who have a made a lasting and significant contribution to the field of process control.
Nordic process control award recipients:

1. Howard H. Rosenbrock (Aaland, Finland, August 1995) 
2. Karl Johan Åstrøm (Wadahl, Norway, January 1997) 
3. F. Greg Shinskey (Skeviks Gård, Stockholm, 24 August 1998) 
4. Jens G. Balchen (Lyngby, Denmark, 14 Jan. 2000) 
5. Charles R. Cutler (Åbo, Finland, 23 Aug. 2001) 
6. Roger W. Sargent (Trondheim, Norway, 09 Jan. 2003)
7. Ernst Dieter Gilles (Gothenburg, Sweden, 19 Aug. 2004)
8. Manfred Morari (Lyngby, Denmark, 26 Jan. 2006) 
9. Jacques Richalet (Espoo, Finland, 23. Aug. 2007) 
10. John MacGregor (Porsgrunn, Norway, 29 Jan. 2009) 
11. Graham Goodwin (Lund, Sweden, 26 Aug. 2010) 
12. Lawrence ("Larry") T. Biegler (Lyngby, Denmark, 26 Jan. 2012) 

The NPC award winner in 2013 is
James B. Rawlings, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison