# List of academic awards

This list of academic awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for academic contributions. It does not include professorships, fellowships or student awards other than awards to students who have made an original contribution to an academic field. The country of the institution granting the award is given, but many awards are open to people from around the world.

## International

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| International | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | Breakthrough Prize | Transformative advances in fundamental physics |
| International | Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences | Breakthrough Prize | Research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life |
| International | Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics | Breakthrough Prize | Mathematics |
| International | Dijkstra Prize | Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, International Symposium on Distributed Computing | Outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing |
| International | Ebbe Nielsen Challenge | Global Biodiversity Information Facility | Software or approaches that successfully address a GBIF-issued challenge in the field of biodiversity informatics |
| International | Ebbe Nielsen Prize | Global Biodiversity Information Facility | Substantial contributions to the field of biodiversity informatics |
| International | Fields Medal | International Mathematical Union | Outstanding contributions in mathematics attributed to young scientists. See also List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation |
| International | Henri Poincaré Prize | International Association of Mathematical Physics | Outstanding contributions in mathematical physics, and contributions which lay the groundwork for novel developments in this broad field |
| International | ICTP Prize | International Centre for Theoretical Physics | Young physicist or mathematician from a developing country to promote theoretical mathematics and physics research in the developing world |
| International | Mustafa Prize | Organisation of Islamic Cooperation | Top researchers and scientists |
| International | Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing | International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity | Major contribution to understanding the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing |
| International | The Panmure House Prize | Baillie Gifford | Academic prize for research into long-term investment and radical innovation |
| International | The Dan David Prize | Dan David Foundation | Prize for outstanding work in the study of the human past |

## Africa

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Nigeria | Nigeria Prize for Science | Nigeria LNG | Excellence in science breakthroughs |
| South Africa | Havenga prize | Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns | Original research in the sciences |

## Americas

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Brazil | Prêmio Almirante Álavaro Alberto | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development | Brazilian researchers for their career's work advancing the progress of science, and knowledge transfer from academia to the productive sector |
| Canada | Chanchlani Global Health Research Award | McMaster University | Leading scholar in the area of Global Health |
| Canada | CNIB Chanchlani Global Vision Research Award | CNIB Foundation etc. | Vision scientists around the world who have made a major, original contribution for advancement in understanding the causes of blindness and vision loss, as well as potential cures, treatments and preventions |
| Canada | CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science | Canadian Psychological Association | Individual who has made a significant contribution to Canadian psychology as a scientific discipline (as a researcher, teacher, theorist, spokesperson, or public policy developer) |
| Canada | Dufferin Medal | Lord Dufferin | Canadian students and athletes who had achieved high excellence in academics and athletics |
| Canada | Fred P. Lossing Award | Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry | Distinguished Canadian mass spectrometrist |
| Chile | Jorge Millas Award | Austral University of Chile | Academic merit |
| Mexico | Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) | Ibero-American scholars in recognition of advances in science and/or technology |
| United States and Canada | William Riley Parker Prize | Modern Language Association | Outstanding article published in PMLA, the association's primary journal |
| United States | Andrew Heiskell Award | Institute of International Education | Outstanding initiative conducted in international higher education by universities and colleges under IIE network |
| United States | Bailey Distinguished Member Award | The Clay Minerals Society | Scientific eminence in clay mineralogy (in its broadest sense) as evidenced by the publication of outstanding original scientific research and by the impact of this research on the clay sciences |
| United States | Banting Medal | American Diabetes Association | Original, sustained and reproducible scholarship that has made major contributions to the understanding of diabetes, its treatment and/or prevention |
| United States | Berggruen Prize | Berggruen Institute | Thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change |
| United States | Biemann Medal | American Society for Mass Spectrometry | An individual early in his or her career in recognition of significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry |
| United States | Charles E. Merriam Award for Outstanding Public Policy Research | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | Outstanding public policy research |
| United States | Clark Kerr Award | University of California, Berkeley | Extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education |
| United States | Clay Research Award | Clay Mathematics Institute | To mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research |
| United States | James L. Clifford Award | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Best article in eighteenth-century studies. |
| United States | Cornplanter Medal | Cayuga County Historical Society | Scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the Iroquois people |
| United States | Edwin H. Land Medal | The Optical Society, Society for Imaging Science and Technology | Pioneering work empowered by scientific research to create inventions, technologies, and products in optics and imaging |
| United States | Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology | Foresight Institute | Significant advances in nanotechnology |
| United States | Frank Prize | University of Florida | Research that advances public interest communications around positive social change, including issues such as education, health, politics, and the environment |
| United States | George L. Mosse Prize | American Historical Association | Outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500 |
| United States | Gildersleeve Prize | Johns Hopkins University Press | Best article of the year published in the American Journal of Philology |
| United States | Louis J. Gottschalk Prize | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Best book in the field of eighteenth-century studies. |
| United States | Haskins Medal | Medieval Academy of America | Distinguished book in the field of medieval studies |
| United States | Hattendorf Prize | Naval War College | Distinguished academic achievement in publishing original research that contributes to a deeper historical understanding of the broad context and interrelationships involved in the roles, contributions, limitations, and uses of the sea services in history |
| United States | Heroes of Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Teams responsible for creation of innovative and impactful products based on chemistry and chemical engineering |
| United States | Howard R. Marraro Prize | Modern Language Association | Scholarly work on Italian literature or comparative Italian literature |
| United States | IEEE Edison Medal | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts |
| United States | IEEE Medal of Honor | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest |
| United States | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award | International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence |
| United States | ISCB Fellow | International Society for Computational Biology | Outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics |
| United States | J. C. Harrington Award | Society for Historical Archaeology | Life-time of contributions to the discipline centered on scholarship |
| United States | J. Russell Major Prize | American Historical Association | Book by a historian |
| United States | James Russell Lowell Prize | Modern Language Association | Outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography |
| United States | John Addison Porter Prize | Yale University | Scholarship in any field where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest |
| United States | Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award | Broadcast Education Association | Best doctoral dissertation in field of broadcasting and electronic media |
| United States | Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize | Modern Language Association | Language translator |
| United States | Larry Sandler Memorial Award | Drosophila Research Conference | Best dissertation of the preceding year |
| United States | Leonard D. White Award | University of Chicago | Best dissertation in the field of public administration |
| United States | MIT150 | The Boston Globe | The most significant innovators, inventions, or ideas from MIT, MIT alumni, and other MIT-related people and organizations |
| United States | Massry Prize | Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation | Substantial recent contributions in the biomedical sciences |
| United States | Matei Calinescu Prize | Modern Language Association | Distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought |
| United States | McClintock Prize | Maize Genetics Executive Committee | Study of plant genome structure, function and evolution, including the analysis of gene regulation and epigenetics |
| United States | Member of the National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences | Distinguished and continuing achievements in original research |
| United States | Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems | University of Maryland, College Park etc. | Outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas |
| United States | Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize | Progressive Librarians Guild | Best graduate student paper about some aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship |
| United States | Morton N. Cohen Award | Modern Language Association | Important collections of letters |
| United States | Niels Lassen Award | International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | Outstanding scientific contribution made by an early career scientist |
| United States | PROSE Awards | Association of American Publishers | Best in professional and scholarly publishing |
| United States | Paul Birdsall Prize | American Historical Association | Book in English by a historian. Preference given to early-career academics. |
| United States | Phyllis Franklin Award | Modern Language Association | Person who has fostered public support for the humanities through speaking, writing, policy making, or other activities |
| United States | Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Individuals who by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development or engineering have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology |
| United States | Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching | American Political Science Association | Developers of effective new approaches to teaching among political scientists |
| United States | Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award | American Society of Criminology | Researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the discipline of criminology, and who has received his or her Ph.D., M.D., or other graduate degree no more than five years before receiving the award |
| United States | SIAM Fellow | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the discipline |
| United States | SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community | Association for Computing Machinery: SIGCSE | Lifetime contributions to computer science education |
| United States | SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education | Association for Computing Machinery: SIGCSE | Significant contribution to computer science education |
| United States | Silvert Award | Latin American Studies Association | Senior members of the profession who have made distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America |
| United States | Stefan Bergman Prize | American Mathematical Society | Mathematical research in the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or function-theoretic methods in the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method. |
| United States | Troland Research Awards | National Academy of Sciences | Psychological research on the relationship between consciousness and the physical world |
| United States | Wesley Logan Prize | Association for the Study of African American Life and History | Outstanding book in African diaspora history |
| United States | Wilbur Cross Medal | Yale Graduate School Alumni Association | Distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service |
| United States | William Gilbert Award | American Geophysical Union | Outstanding and unselfish work in magnetism of Earth materials and of the Earth and planets |

## Asia

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Hong Kong | Yidan Prize | Yidan Prize Foundation | Two individuals or organizations whose work has made contributions to education research and development |
| India | Faculty Research Awards | Careers360, Minister of Human Resource Development | Academic and research output in Scopus indexed journals, citation index and h-index |
| India | VASVIK Industrial Research Award | Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK) | Excellence in industrial research in the areas of science and technology |
| Japan | Asahi Prize | Asahi Shimbun | Achievement in science or arts that has made a great contribution to culture or society |
| Japan | Fukuoka Prize | Fukuoka City International Foundation | Outstanding individuals or groups/organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia |
| Japan | Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize | Japan International Cooperation Agency | Outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other diseases in Africa |
| Japan | International Prize for Biology | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology |
| Japan | Japan Prize | Japan Prize Foundation | Original and outstanding achievements in science and technology that are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and having served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind |
| Japan | Kyoto Prize | Inamori Foundation | Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences |
| Japan | Nishina Memorial Prize | Nishina Memorial Foundation | Young scientists who have made substantial contributions in the field of atomic and sub-atomic physics research |
| Japan | Praemium Imperiale | Fujisankei Communications Group | Outstanding contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts |
| Taiwan | Tang Prize | Tang Prize Foundation | Outstanding contributions in sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law |
| Thailand | Dushdi Mala Medal | Monarch of Thailand | Distinguished services in the domains of the arts and sciences |

## Europe

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Austria | Francis Stephen Award | Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts | Researchers in the humanities and social sciences |
| Denmark | Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research | Aarhus University | Mark of respect to a researcher who has produced one or more significant results which show promise in future research |
| Europe | Member of the Academia Europaea | Academia Europaea | Sustained academic excellence |
| Europe | Schwäbisch Gmünd Prize | European Academy of Surface Technology | Early career researcher active in Europe on the grounds of originality, creativity and excellence in surface technology |
| Europe | Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research | International Science Council, University of Bergen, European Consortium for Political Research | Substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research |
| France | Prix Giles | Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres | Work related to China, Japan or East Asia that was published by a French author |
| France | Prix Napoleon | Fondation Napoléon | Best non-Francophone historical work on the First Napoleonic Empire |
| France | Prix Stanislas Julien | Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres | Sinological work (usually) published in the previous year |
| France | Social Choice and Welfare Prize | Society for Social Choice and Welfare | Young scholars, under the age of 40, in the areas of social choice theory and welfare economics |
| Germany / United Kingdom | Feldberg Foundation Prize | Feldberg Foundation | Experimental medical research, in particular in physiology, pharmacology and related topics |
| Germany | Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize | International Mathematical Union, German Mathematical Society | Outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics |
| Germany | Ludwig Prandtl Ring | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt | Outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering |
| Germany | Otto Hahn Medal | Max Planck Society | Outstanding scientific achievement by junior scientists |
| Germany | Prize for Military History | Federal Ministry of Defence | Achievements in the fields of military history and history of military technology |
| Germany | Richard von Mises Prize | Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik | Outstanding scientific achievements in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics |
| Ireland | Cunningham Medal | Royal Irish Academy | Outstanding contributions to scholarship and the objectives of the Academy |
| Italy | ENI award | Eni | Outstanding contributions in new frontiers in hydrocarbons, renewable and non-conventional energy, protection of the environment |
| Netherlands | Multatuli Prize | Amsterdam Fund for the Arts | Exemplary writing in the Dutch language |
| Norway | Abel Prize | King of Norway | Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics |
| Norway | Gunnerus Medal | Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters | Outstanding technical-scientific or other scientific work or benefits to the Science Society |
| Norway | Onsager Medal | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Researchers in one or more subject areas of chemistry, physics or mathematics |
| Norway | Sverdrup Prize | Norwegian Statistical Association | Eminent representative of the statistics profession; younger statistician who has authored or coauthored a high quality journal article |
| Spain | Fonseca Prize | University of Santiago de Compostela | Popularization of science |
| Spain | Menéndez Pelayo International Prize | Menéndez Pelayo International University | Persons whose literary or scientific work has a humanistic orientation and application, in the tradition of the University's namesake Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo |
| Spain | Princess of Asturias Awards | Princess of Asturias Foundation | Individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs |
| Sweden / Norway | Nobel Prize | Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute etc. | Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine |
| Sweden | Börje Langefors Best Doctoral Dissertation Award | Swedish Information Systems Academy | Best doctoral dissertation in Sweden in the subject areas - informatics, information systems, data and information science or equivalent |
| Switzerland | Balzan Prize | International Balzan Prize Foundation | People or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man |
| Switzerland | Rössler Prize | ETH Zurich Foundation | Outstanding scientific work |
| United Kingdom | Aston Medal | British Mass Spectrometry Society | outstanding contributions to our understanding of the biological, chemical, engineering, mathematical, medical, or physical sciences relating directly to mass spectrometry |
| United Kingdom | Awards of the British Academy | British Academy | 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences |
| United Kingdom | British Academy Medal | British Academy | Outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of the humanities and social sciences |
| United Kingdom | Burkitt Medal | British Academy | Special service to Biblical Studies |
| United Kingdom | Derek Allen Prize | British Academy | Outstanding scholarly achievement in numismatics, Celtic studies and musicology |
| United Kingdom | European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry | Royal Society of Chemistry | Excellence and Impact in the field of Bioinorganic chemistry |
| United Kingdom | Grahame Clark Medal | British Academy | Academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology |
| United Kingdom | IET Faraday Medal | Institution of Engineering and Technology | Notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology or lifetime achievement in science, engineering or technology |
| United Kingdom | Imbert Prize | Association of Security Consultants | Development of ideas for the advancement of risk and security management in the UK |
| United Kingdom | Joan Mott Prize Lecture | The Physiological Society | Physiology |
| United Kingdom | Kenyon Medal | British Academy | Work in the field of classical studies and archaeology |
| United Kingdom | Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | Young numerical analysts worldwide |
| United Kingdom | Leverhulme Medal (British Academy) | British Academy | Significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences |
| United Kingdom | Makdougall Brisbane Prize | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Distinction in the promotion of scientific research |
| United Kingdom | Philip Leverhulme Prize | Leverhulme Trust | Outstanding researchers. Up to thirty awards across a range of academic disciplines |
| United Kingdom | Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture | The Physiological Society | Outstanding contributions to physiology |
| United Kingdom | President's Medal | British Academy | Outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences |
| United Kingdom | Turing Lecture | British Computer Society, Institution of Engineering and Technology | Lecture given by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science |
| United Kingdom | Young Economist of the Year | Royal Economic Society, Financial Times | 1500-word short research paper on one of the economics topics announced by the host |

## Oceania

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Australia | Fenner Medal | Australian Academy of Science | Distinguished research in biology |
| Australia | Clarke Medal | Royal Society of New South Wales | Distinguished work in the natural sciences |
| Australia | Endeavour Awards | Government of Australia | Merit-based scholarship programme |
| Australia | Max Crawford Medal | Australian Academy of the Humanities | Outstanding achievement in the humanities by young Australian scholars currently engaged in research, and whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public |

## Middle-east

| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
| Iran | Academic Achievement Awards | Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH) | The annual graduation ceremony honors the academic achievements of students of Iranian heritage who will be graduating in that academic year |
| Iran | Khwarizmi International Award | Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) | The Khwarizmi International Award is a research award given annually by the President of Iran. The awardees, 10 senior researchers and 10 young researchers, are selected by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). It honors “individuals who have made outstanding achievements in research, innovation and invention, in fields related to science and technology”. |
| Iran | Young Scientist Award | Iran’s National Elites Foundation and Jamili Science and Technology Foundation | YSF has been annually held since 2017 to support the conversion of new ideas into business/products, support scholars, and strengthen the innovational and entrepreneurial spirit in young scientists. The festival is held in five areas of basic sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics & Computer Science, Biology, and Geology). YSF is held in two sections: Idea Section and Start-up Section. The primary objectives of YSF are supporting scholars in the fields of basic sciences, encouraging young inventors, innovators, researchers, and start-ups, creating a platform for scientific and technological cooperation between academia and industry, and creating opportunities and networks for the future of young scientists. |
| Türkiye | Türkiye Scholarships | Government of Türkiye | Türkiye Scholarships offers many different scholarship programs, including undergraduate, graduate and PhD scholarships, special scholarship programs such as success scholarship, art scholarships, and joint scholarship programs with prestigious international organizations. The scholarship covers tuition fee, monthly stipend, accommodation, health insurance, and a round-trip flight ticket. |