Public Welfare Medal
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The Public Welfare Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of distinguished contributions in the application of science to the public welfare." It is the most prestigious honor conferred by the Academy. First awarded in 1914, the medal has been awarded annually since 1976.
[edit] List of Public Welfare Medal winners
- 2011: Ismail Serageldin
- 2010: Eugenie C. Scott
- 2009: Neal F. Lane
- 2008: Norman P. Neureiter
- 2007: Maxine F. Singer
- 2006: Norman R. Augustine
- 2005: William H. Foege
- 2004: Maurice F. Strong
- 2003: Shirley M. Malcom
- 2002: Norman E. Borlaug
- 2001: David A. Kessler
- 2000: Gilbert F. White
- 1999: Arnold O. Beckman
- 1998: David A. Hamburg
- 1997: George W. Thorn
- 1996: William T. Golden
- 1995: Harold Amos
- 1994: Carl Sagan
- 1993: Jerome B. Wiesner
- 1992: Philip H. Abelson
- 1991: Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1990: C. Everett Koop
- 1989: David Packard
- 1988: John E. Sawyer
- 1987: Dale R. Corson
- 1986: William D. Carey
- 1985: I. I. Rabi
- 1984: Theodore M. Hesburgh
- 1983: Mina Rees
- 1982: Paul Grant Rogers
- 1981: Russell E. Train
- 1980: Walter S. Sullivan
- 1979: Cecil H. Green and Ida M. Green
- 1978: Donald A. Henderson
- 1977: Leona Baumgartner
- 1976: Emilio Q. Daddario
- 1972: Leonard Carmichael
- 1969: Lister Hill
- 1966: John W. Gardner
- 1964: Detlev W. Bronk
- 1963: J. G. Harrar
- 1962: James A. Shannon
- 1960: Alan T. Waterman
- 1959: James H. Doolittle
- 1958: Henry A. Moe
- 1957: Warren Weaver
- 1956: James R. Killian, Jr.
- 1951: David Lilienthal
- 1948: George H. Shull
- 1947: Karl T. Compton
- 1945: Vannevar Bush
- 1943: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- 1939: J. Edgar Hoover
- 1937: Willis R. Whitney
- 1935: Hugh S. Cumming and F. F. Russell
- 1934: August Vollmer
- 1933: David Fairchild
- 1932: William H. Park
- 1931: Wickliffe Rose
- 1930: Stephen T. Mather
- 1928: Charles V. Chapin
- 1921: Charles W. Stiles
- 1920: Herbert Hoover
- 1917: Samuel W. Stratton
- 1916: Cleveland Abbe and Gifford Pinchot
- 1914: George W. Goethals and William C. Gorgas
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Public Welfare Medal National Academy of Sciences web site
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