Chemistry

The National Medal of Science is an honor given 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 physics. The Committee on the National Medal of Science under the National Science Foundation (NSF) is responsible for recommending medal candidates to the President.

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1 Behavorial and social science

Behavorial and social science

1964 Roger Adams , Othmar H. Ammann , Theodosius Dobzhansky,Charles S. Draper , Solomon Lefschetz, Neal Elgar Miller , H. Marston Morse , Marshall W. Nirenberg
1986 Herbert A. Simon
1987 Anne Anastasi , George J. Stigler
1988 Milton Friedman
1989 Roger W. Sperry
1990 Leonid Hurwicz , Patrick Suppes
1991 Robert W. Kates , George A. Miller
1992 Eleanor J. Gibson
1994 Robert K. Merton
1995 Roger N. Shepard
1996 Paul A. Samuelson
1997 William K. Estes
1998 William Julius Wilson
1999 Robert M. Solow
2000 Gary S. Becker
2001 George F. Bass
2003 R. Duncan Luce

Biology

1963 Cornelius Van Niel
1965 Francis P. Rous , George G. Simpson , Donald D. Van Slyke
1966 Edward F. Knipling , Fritz A. Lipmann , William C. Rose, Sewall Wright
1967 Kenneth S. Cole , Harry F. Harlow , Michael Heidelberger, Alfred H. Sturtevant
1968 H. A. Barker , Bernard B. Brodie , Detlev W. Bronk , Jay Lush , B. Frederick Skinner
1969 Robert J. Huebner , Ernst Mayr
1970 Barbara McClintock, Albert B. Sabin
1973 Daniel I. Arnon , Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
1974 Britton Chance , Erwin Chargaff, James Van Gundia Neel , James Augustine Shannon
1975 Hallowell Davis , Paul Gyorgy , Sterling Brown Hendricks , Orville Alvin Vogel
1976 Roger C.L. Guillemin, Keith Roberts Porter , Efraim Racker , Edward O. Wilson
1979 Robert H. Burris , Elizabeth C. Crosby , Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa, Earl Reece Stadtman , George Ledyard Stebbins, Paul A. Weiss
1981 Philip Handler
1982 Seymour Benzer, Glenn W. Burton , Mildred Cohn
1983 Howard L. Bachrach , Paul Berg, Wendell L. Roelofs, Berta Scharrer
1986 Stanley Cohen, Donald A. Henderson , Vernon B. Mountcastle , George Emil Palade, Joan A. Steitz
1987 Michael E. Debakey , Theodor O. Diener, Harry Eagle , Har Gobind Khorana, Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 Michael S. Brown, Stanley N. Cohen, Joseph L. Goldstein, Maurice R. Hilleman, Eric R. Kandel, Rosalyn S. Yalow
1989 Katherine Esau , Viktor Hamburger , Philip Leder , Joshua Lederberg, Harland G. Wood
1990 Baruj Benacerraf, Herbert W. Boyer , Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. , Edward B. Lewis, David G. Nathan , E. Donnall Thomas
1991 Mary Ellen Avery , G. Evelyn Hutchinson , Elvin A. Kabat, Salvador E. Luria, Paul A. Marks , Folke K Skoog , Paul C. Zamecnik
1992 Maxine Singer , Howard M. Temin
1993 Daniel Nathans, Salome G. Waelsch
1994 Thomas Eisner , Elizabeth F. Neufeld
1995 Alexander Rich
1996 Ruth Patrick
1997 James D. Watson, Robert A. Weinberg
1998 Bruce Ames, Janet Rowley
1999 David Baltimore, Jared Diamond, Lynn Margulis
2000 Nancy C. Andreasen , Peter H. Raven, Carl Woese
2001 Francisco J. Ayala , Mario R. Capecchi , Ann M. Graybiel , Gene E. Likens , Victor A. McKusick, Harold Varmus
2002 James E. Darnell , Evelyn M. Witkin
2003 J. Michael Bishop, Solomon H. Snyder , Charles Yanofsky

1982 F. Albert Cotton , Gilbert Stork
1983 Roald Hoffmann, George C. Pimentel, Richard N. Zare
1986 Harry Gray , Yuan Tseh Lee, Carl S. Marvel , Frank H. Westheimer
1987 William S. Johnson, Walter H. Stockmayer, Max, Tishler
1988 William O. Baker , Konrad E. Bloch , Elias J. Corey
1989 Richard B. Bernstein , Melvin Calvin, Rudoph A. Marcus , Harden M. McConnel
1990 Elkan R. Blout , Karl, Flokers , John D. Roberts
1991 Ronald Breslow , Gertrude B. Elion, Dudley R. Herschbach, Glenn T. Seaborg
1992 Howard E. Simmons, Jr.
1993 Donald J. Cram, Norman Hackerman
1994 George S. Hammond
1995 Thomas Cech , Isabella L. Karle
1996 Norman Davidson
1997 Darleane C. Hoffman , Harold S. Johnston
1998 John W. Cahn , George M. Whitesides
1999 Stuart A. Rice , John Ross, Susan Solomon
2000 John D. Baldeschwieler , Ralph F. Hirschmann
2001 Ernest R. Davidson , Gabor A. Somorjai
2002 John I. Brauman

Engineering

1962 Theodore Von Karman
1963 Vannevar Bush, John Robinson Pierce
1965 Hugh L. Dryden, Clarence L. Johnson , Warren K. Lewis
1966 Claude E. Shannon
1967 Edwin H. Land, Igor I. Sikorsky
1968 J. Presper Eckert, Nathan M. Newmark
1969 Jack St. Clair Kilby
1970 George E. Mueller
1973 Harold E. Edgerton, Richard T. Whitcomb
1974 Rudolf Kompfner , Ralph Brazelton Peck , Abel Wolman
1975 Manson Benedict , William H. Pickering, Frederick E. Terman , Werher Von Braun
1976 Morris Cohen, Peter C. Goldmark , Erwin W. Mueller
1979 Emmett N. Leith , Raymond D. Mindlin , Robert N. Noyce, Earl R. Parker , Simon, Ramo
1982 Edward H. Heinemann , Donald L. Katz
1983 William R. Hewlett, George M. Low , John G. Trump
1986 Hans Wolfgang Liepmann , T. Y. Lin, Bernard M. Oliver
1987 Robert B. Bird , H. Bolton Seed , Ernst Weber
1988 Daniel C. Drucker , Willis M. Hawkins , George W. Housner
1989 Harry George Drickamer , Herbert E. Grier
1990 Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Nick Holonyak Jr.
1991 George Heilmeier , Luna B. Leopold , H. Guyford Stever
1992 Calvin F. Quate , John Roy Whinnery
1993 Alfred Y Cho
1994 Ray W. Clough
1995 Hermann A. Haus
1996 James L. Flanagan , C. Kumar N. Patel
1998 Eli Ruckenstein
1999 Kenneth N. Stevens
2000 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
2001 Andreas Acrivos
2002 Leo L. Beranek
2003 John M. Prausnitz

Mathematics

1963 Norbert Wiener
1965 Oscar Zariski
1966 John Milnor
1967 Paul Cohen
1968 Jerzy Neyman
1969 William Feller
1970 Richard Brauer
1973 John Tukey
1974 Kurt Godel
1975 John W. Backus, Shiing-shen Chern, George B. Dantzig
1976 Kurt Otto Friedrichs , Hassler Whitney
1979 Joseph L. Doob , Donald E. Knuth
1982 Marshall Harvey Stone
1983 Herman Goldstine, Isadore Singer
1986 Peter Lax, Antoni Zygmund
1987 Raoul Bott, Michael Freedman
1988 Ralph E. Gomory , Joseph B. Keller
1989 Samuel Karlin , Saunders MacLane, Donald C. Spencer
1990 George F. Carrier , Stephen Cole Kleene, John McCarthy
1991 Alberto Calderón
1992 Allen Newell
1993 Martin Kruskal
1994 John Cocke
1995 Louis Nirenberg
1996 Richard M. Karp, Stephen Smale
1997 Shing-Tung Yau
1998 Cathleen Synge Morawetz
1999 Felix E Browder , Ronald R. Coifman
2000 John Griggs Thompson, Karen E. Uhlenbeck
2001 Calyampudi R. Rao , Elias M. Stein
2002 James G. Glimm
2003 Carl R. de Boor

Physics

1963 Luis W. Alvarez
1964 Julian Schwinger, Harold C. Urey, Robert B. Woodward
1965 John Bardeen, Peter Debye, Leon M. Lederman, William Rubey
1966 Jacob Bjerknes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Henry Eyring, John H. Van Vleck, Vladimir K. Zworykin
1967 Jesse Beams , Francis Birch , Gregory Breit , Louis Hammett , George Kistiakowsky
1968 Paul Bartlett , Herbert Friedman , Lars Onsager, Eugene Wigner
1969 Herbert C. Brown, Wolfgang Panofsky
1970 Robert H. Dicke, Allan R. Sandage, John C. Slater, John A. Wheeler, Saul Winstein
1973 Carl Djerassi, Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit , Vladimir Haensel , Frederick Seitz, Robert Rathbun Wilson
1974 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Paul Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Linus Carl Pauling, Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
1975 Hans A. Bethe, Joseph Hirschfelder , Lewis Sarett , E. Bright Wilson Jr. , Chien-Shiung Wu
1976 Samuel Goudsmit , Herbert Gutowsky , Frederick Rossini , Verner Suomi , Henry Taube, George Uhlenbeck
1979 Richard P. Feynman, Herman Mark , Edward M. Purcell, John Sinfelt , Lyman Spitzer, Jr. , Victor F. Weisskopf
1982 Philip W. Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes
1983 E. Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Goldhaber , Helmut Landsberg , Walter Munk , Frederick Reines, Bruno B. Rossi, J. Robert Schrieffer
1986 Solomon Buchsbaum , Horace Crane , Herman Feshbach , Robert Hofstadter, Chen Ning Yang
1987 Philip Abelson, Walter Elsasser , Paul C. Lauterbur, George Pake, James A. Van Allen
1988 David Allan Bromley , Paul (Ching-Wu) Chu , Walter Kohn, Norman F. Ramsey, Jack Steinberger
1989 Arnold O. Beckman, Eugene Parker, Robert Sharp , Henry Stommel
1990 Allan M. Cormack, Edwin M. McMillan, Robert Pound , Roger Revelle
1991 Arthur L. Schawlow, Edward Stone , Steven Weinberg
1992 Eugene M. Shoemaker
1993 Val Fitch, Vera Rubin
1994 Albert Overhauser , Frank Press
1995 Hans Dehmelt , Peter Goldreich
1996 Wallace S. Broecker
1997 Marshall Rosenbluth , Martin Schwarzschild, George Wetherill
1998 Don Anderson , John N. Bahcall
1999 James Cronin, Leo Kadanoff
2000 Willis E. Lamb, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Gilbert White
2001 Marvin Cohen , Raymond Davis, Charles Keeling
2002 Richard Garwin , W. Jason Morgan , Edward Witten
2003 G. Brent Dalrymple , Riccardo Giacconi