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The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields: behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physical sciences. The Committee on ...
The National Medal of Science was established on August 25, 1959, by an act of the Congress of the United States under Pub. L. 86–209.The medal was originally to honor scientists in the fields of the "physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences".
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign: 1990 Leo Esaki: Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki: 1976 T. Kenneth Fowler: University of California, Berkeley: 1987 Lambert B. Freund: Brown University: 1997 Yuan-Cheng Fung: University of California, San Diego: 1992 James F. Gibbons: Stanford University: 1985 James Gordon ...
In 2012, President Barack Obama announced that Burton Richter was a co-recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, along with Mildred Dresselhaus. [10] In 2014, President Obama also awarded Richter the 2012 National Medal of Science. His citation read, "For pioneering contributions to the development of electron accelerators, including circular and ...
Cockerham was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1974. [3] He received the North Carolina Award in science in 1976, the O. Max Gardner Award in 1980, and NCSU's Holladay Medal in 1994. [1]: 8 He was also a recipient of the Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit and a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. [2]
Science and Engineering National Achievement Award, presented by the American Indian Art and Cultural Exchange, 1976. National Chairperson, Native American Awareness Week, October 10-16, 1976. He authored congressional legislation signed by President Gerald R. Ford.
Rowland Hall at the University of California, Irvine is named after Rowland. Rowland (left) receives an award from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975. Rowland won numerous awards for his work: Tolman Medal, 1976; Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10] Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, 1979
Pennsylvania State University: 1985 Sidney Benson: University of Southern California: 1981 John Bercaw: California Institute of Technology: 1990 Robert G. Bergman: University of California, Berkeley: 1984 Bruce Berne: Columbia University: 1998 R. Stephen Berry: University of Chicago: 1980 Carolyn R. Bertozzi: Stanford University: 2005 Dale ...