AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
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The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world. [1]The establishment of this new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was announced by AAAS executive officer William D. Carey on 23 October 1980.[2] The award, presented for the first time at the 1982 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, consisted of a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000.[3] According to the AAAS, these types of exemplary actions include "acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates."[4] The 2018 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was civil and environmental engineer Marc Edwards. The AAAS stated that he was given the award for his ability "to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies" in the area of Flint Michigan.[5] According to Marc, Flint Michigan "represents misconduct by local and federal government engineers and scientists... and allowed an unprecedented exposure to the best known nerve toxin in the most powerful city in America, and perhaps even the world".[6]
Recipients
- 2020 Erin Kimmerle[7]
- 2019 Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake (to be confirmed)
- 2018 Mark Edwards
- 2017 Award date adjusted – see 2018
- 2016 Kurt Gottfried
- 2015 Jean Maria Arrigo
- 2014 Omid Kokabee
- 2013 Hoosen Coovadia
- 2012 Kiyoshi Kurokawa
- 2011 J. David Jentsch, Edythe D. London, and Dario Ringach
- 2010 Nancy Olivieri
- 2009 Drummond Rennie
- 2008 James Hansen
- 2007 Eugenie Scott et al.
- 2006 David Michaels
- 2005 rDNA Advisory Committee
- 2004 Walter Reich
- 2003 L. Dennis Smith
- 2001 Howard K. Schachman
- 2000 Alexander Nikitin
- 1999 Joel L. Lebowitz
- 1998 JoAnn Burkholder
- 1997 Salim Kheirbek
- 1996 Daniel Callahan
- 1995 Vil Mirzayanov
- 1994 June E. Osborn, Mathilde Krim
- 1993 Daniel L. Albritton, Robert T. Watson
- 1992 Inez Austin
- 1991 Adrian R. Morrison
- 1990 Matthew S. Meselson
- 1989 Robert L. Sprague, Natural Resources Defense Council
- 1988 Richard L. Garwin, Roger M. Boisjoly
- 1987 Stanley L. Weinberg, Norman D. Newell, Francisco J. Ayala
- 1986 Colegio Medico de Chile, Victor Paschkis
- 1985 Werner A. Baum
- 1983 Anatoly Koryagin, Jose Westerkamp
- 1982 Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Norton Zinder, Morris H. Baslow
See also
- AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy
- AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
- AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize
References
- ^ AAAD Awards – AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility AAAS webpage.
- ^ "AAAS Establishes Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility". Science. 210 (4474): 1115–6. 1980. doi:10.1126/science.210.4474.1115-a. JSTOR 1684803. PMID 17831460.
- ^ "AAAS Establishes Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 6 (35): 41. 1981. JSTOR 689563.
- ^ "AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility". AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ "Marc Edwards Wins AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award". AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ "Listen: Engineer Marc Edwards on Truth-Seeking in an Age of Tribalism :: News & Events :: Swarthmore College". www.swarthmore.edu. 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ "Discovery of Unmarked Graves Earns 2020 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2020-02-04.