Scientific prizes and awards / General

Medal of Science

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Description

Award to be given to individuals ''deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.''

Recipients

2001 awards :
Acrivos, Andreas, City College of the City University of New York (Engineering)
Ayala, Francisco J., University of California at Irvine (Biological Sciences)
Bass, George F., Texas A&M University (Behavioral and Social Science
Capecchi, Mario R., University of Utah School of Medicine (Biological Sciences)
Cohen, Marvin L., University of California at Berkeley (Physical Sciences)
Davidson, Ernest R., Indiana University (Chemistry)
Davis, Raymond, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Physical Sciences)
Graybiel, Ann M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Biological Sciences)
Keeling, Charles D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Physical Sciences)
Likens, Gene E., Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Biological Sciences)
McKusick, Victor A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Biological Sciences)
Rao, Calyampudi R., Pennsylvania State University (Mathematics and Computer Science)
Somorjai, Gabor A., University of California at Berkeley (Chemistry)
Stein, Elias M., Princeton University (Mathematics and Computer Science)
Varmus, Harold, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Biological Sciences).