National Medal of Science

National Medal of Science är en hedersbetygelse som USA:s president delar ut för större framsteg i vetenskapen.

Hedersbetygelsen inrättades av USA:s 86:e kongress 1959 för att hedra forskare inom vetenskapsområdena fysik, biologi, matematik och ingenjörsvetenskap. En kommitté för att utse kandidater etablerades 1961 och hedersbetygelsen delades ut första gången 1963, för år 1962. Hedersbetygelsen kom från 1979 att omfatta även samhällsvetenskap och beteendevetenskap. Kommittén som utser kandidater administreras av National Science Foundation. Reglementet för hedersbetygelsen tillåter upp till 20 mottagare per år, men 8–15 mottagare per år har varit vanligare. För vissa år har ingen hedersbetygelse delas ut, dessa är 1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1984 och 1985. Donald Trump delade inte ut hedersbetygelsen under sin presidentperiod, varför den senaste gången hedersbetygelsen delades ut var 2016 av Barack Obama, för åren 2013 och 2014.

Pristagare 
1962: Theodore von Kármán
1963: Luis Walter Alvarez, Vannevar Bush, Cornelis Bernardus van Niel, John R. Pierce, Norbert Wiener
1964: Roger Adams, Othmar Ammann, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Charles Stark Draper, Solomon Lefschetz, Neal Elgar Miller, Harold Calvin Marston Morse, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Julian Seymour Schwinger, Harold C. Urey, Robert B. Woodward
1965: John Bardeen, Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye, Hugh Latimer Dryden, Clarence Johnson, Leon Max Lederman, Warren K. Lewis, Francis Peyton Rous, William Walden Rubey, George Gaylord Simpson, Donald D. Van Slyke, Oscar Zariski
1966: Jacob Bjerknes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Henry Eyring, Edward F. Knipling, Fritz Albert Lipmann, John Willard Milnor, William C. Rose, Claude Elwood Shannon, John H. van Vleck, Sewall Wright, Vladimir Zworykin
1967: Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit, Paul Cohen, Kenneth Stewart Cole, Louis Plack Hammett, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, George Bogdan Kistiakowsky, Edwin Herbert Land, Igor Ivanovitj Sikorskij, Alfred Sturtevant
1968: Horace Albert Barker, Paul D. Bartlett, Bernard Brodie, Detlev Bronk, John Presper Eckert, Herbert Friedman, Jay Lush, Nathan M. Newmark, Jerzy Neyman, Lars Onsager, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Eugene Paul Wigner
1969: Herbert Charles Brown, William Feller, Robert J. Huebner, Jack Kilby, Ernst Mayr, Wolfgang Panofsky
1970: Richard Brauer, Robert Henry Dicke, Barbara McClintock, George Mueller, Albert Sabin, Allan Rex Sandage, John C. Slater, John Archibald Wheeler, Saul Winstein
1973: Daniel I. Arnon, Carl Djerassi, Harold E. Edgerton, Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, Vladimir Haensel, Frederick Seitz, Earl W. Sutherland, John W. Tukey, Richard T. Whitcomb, Robert R. Wilson
1974: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff, Paul John Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Kurt Gödel, Rudolf Kompfner, James V. Neel, Linus Carl Pauling, Ralph Brazelton Peck, Kenneth Pitzer, James Augustine Shannon, Abel Wolman, Chien-Shiung Wu
1975: John Warner Backus, Manson Benedict, Hans Bethe, Wernher von Braun, Shiing-Shen Chern, George Dantzig, Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy, Sterling Hendricks, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, William Hayward Pickering, Lewis H. Sarett, Frederick Terman, Orville Vogel, E. Bright Wilson
1976: Morris Cohen, Kurt Friedrichs, Peter Carl Goldmark, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Roger Charles Louis Guillemin, Herbert S. Gutowsky, Erwin Wilhelm Müller, Keith R. Porter, Efraim Racker, Frederick D. Rossini, Verner E. Suomi, Henry Taube, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Hassler Whitney, Edward Osborne Wilson
1979: Robert H. Burris, Elizabeth C. Crosby, Joseph Doob, Richard Feynman, Donald Ervin Knuth, Arthur Kornberg, Emmett N. Leith, Hermann F. Mark, Raymond D. Mindlin, Robert Noyce, Severo Ochoa, Earl R. Parker, Edward Mills Purcell, Simon Ramo, John H. Sinfelt, Lyman Spitzer, Earl Reece Stadtman, George Ledyard Stebbins, Paul Alfred Weiss, Victor Weisskopf
1981: Philip Handler
1982: Philip W. Anderson, Seymour Benzer, Glenn W. Burton, Mildred Cohn, F. Albert Cotton, Ed Heinemann, Donald L. Katz, Yōichirō Nambu, Marshall Harvey Stone, Gilbert Stork, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes
1983: Howard L. Bachrach, Paul Berg, Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Goldhaber, Herman Heine Goldstine, William Hewlett, Roald Hoffmann, Helmut E. Landsberg, George Low, Walter Munk, George C. Pimentel, Frederick Reines, Wendell L. Roelofs, Bruno Rossi, Berta Scharrer, John Robert Schrieffer, Isadore M. Singer, John G. Trump, Richard N. Zare
1986: Solomon J. Buchsbaum, Stanley Cohen, Horace R. Crane, Herman Feshbach, Harry Gray, Donald Henderson, Robert Hofstadter, Peter Lax, Yuan T. Lee, Hans Wolfgang Liepmann, Tung-Yen Lin, Carl S. Marvel, Vernon Mountcastle, Bernard M. Oliver, George Emil Palade, Herbert Simon, Joan Steitz, Frank Westheimer, Chen Ning Yang, Antoni Zygmund
1987: Philip Hauge Abelson, Anne Anastasi, Robert B. Bird, Raoul Bott, Michael Ellis DeBakey, Theodor O. Diener, Harry Eagle, Walter Elsasser, Michael Freedman, William S. Johnson, Har Gobind Khorana, Paul Christian Lauterbur, Rita Levi-Montalcini, George Pake, H. Bolton Seed, George Stigler, Walter H. Stockmayer, Max Tishler, James Van Allen, Ernst Weber
1988: William O. Baker, Konrad Bloch, David Allan Bromley, Michael Stuart Brown, Paul Chu, Stanley N. Cohen, Elias James Corey Jr., Daniel C. Drucker, Milton Friedman, Joseph Leonard Goldstein, Ralph Gomory, Willis Hawkins, Maurice Hilleman, George W. Housner, Eric Richard Kandel, Joseph B. Keller, Walter Kohn, Norman Foster Ramsey, Jack Steinberger, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1989: Arnold Orville Beckman, Richard B. Bernstein, Melvin Calvin, Harry George Drickamer, Katherine Esau, Herbert Grier, Viktor Hamburger, Samuel Karlin, Philip Leder, Joshua Lederberg, Saunders Mac Lane, Rudolph Arthur Marcus, Harden M. McConnell, Eugene N. Parker, Robert P. Sharp, Donald Spencer, Roger Sperry, Henry Stommel, Harland G. Wood
1990: Baruj Benacerraf, Elkan R. Blout, Herbert W. Boyer, George F. Carrier, Allan McLeod Cormack, Mildred Dresselhaus, Karl A. Folkers, Nick Holonyak, Leonid Hurwicz, Stephen Cole Kleene, Daniel E. Koshland, Edward B. Lewis, John McCarthy, Edwin Mattison McMillan, David G. Nathan, Robert Pound, Roger Revelle, John D. Roberts, Patrick Suppes, Edward Donnall Thomas
1991: Mary Ellen Avery, Ronald Breslow, Alberto Calderón, Gertrude Belle Elion, George H. Heilmeier, Dudley R. Herschbach, George Evelyn Hutchinson, Elvin A. Kabat, Robert W. Kates, Luna Leopold, Salvador Edward Luria, Paul A. Marks, George A. Miller, Arthur L. Schawlow, Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Folke K. Skoog, Guyford Stever, Edward C. Stone, Steven Weinberg, Paul Charles Zamecnik
1992: Eleanor J. Gibson, Allen Newell, Calvin Quate, Eugene Shoemaker, Howard E. Simmons, Maxine F. Singer, Howard M. Temin, John Roy Whinnery
1993: Alfred Y. Cho, Donald J. Cram, Val Fitch, Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, Norman Hackerman, Martin Kruskal, Daniel Nathans, Vera Rubin
1994: Ray W. Clough, John Cocke, Thomas Eisner, George S. Hammond, Robert King Merton, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Albert Overhauser, Frank Press
1995: Thomas R. Cech, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Peter Goldreich, Hermann A. Haus, Isabella L. Karle, Louis Nirenberg, Alexander Rich, Roger Shepard
1996: Wallace S. Broecker, Norman Davidson, James L. Flanagan, Richard M. Karp, C. Kumar N. Patel, Ruth Patrick, Paul A. Samuelson, Stephen Smale
1997: William K. Estes, Darleane C. Hoffman, Harold S. Johnston, Marshall Rosenbluth, Martin Schwarzschild, James Watson, Robert Allan Weinberg, George Wetherill, Shing-Tung Yau
1998: Bruce Ames, Don L. Anderson, John N. Bahcall, John W. Cahn, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Janet Rowley, Eli Ruckenstein, George M. Whitesides, William Julius Wilson
1999: David Baltimore, Felix Browder, Ronald Coifman, James Cronin, Jared Diamond, Leo Kadanoff, Lynn Margulis, Stuart A. Rice, John Ross, Susan Solomon, Robert Merton Solow, Kenneth N. Stevens
2000: Nancy C. Andreasen, John D. Baldeschwieler, Gary Becker, Yuan-Cheng B. Fung, Ralph Hirschmann, Willis E. Lamb, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Peter H. Raven, John Griggs Thompson, Karen Uhlenbeck, Gilbert F. White, Carl Woese
2001: Andreas Acrivos, Francisco J. Ayala, George Fletcher Bass, Mario Capecchi, Marvin L. Cohen, Ernest R. Davidson, Raymond Davis junior, Ann M. Graybiel, Charles David Keeling, Gene Likens, Victor Almon McKusick, C. R. Rao, Gabor A. Somorjai, Elias Stein, Harold Elliot Varmus
2002: Leo L. Beranek, John I. Brauman, James E. Darnell, Richard Garwin, James Glimm, William Jason Morgan, Evelyn M. Witkin, Edward Witten
2003: John Michael Bishop, Brent Dalrymple, Carl R. de Boor, Riccardo Giacconi, Duncan Luce, John M. Prausnitz, Solomon H. Snyder, Charles Yanofsky
2004: Kenneth Arrow, Norman Ernest Borlaug, Robert N. Clayton, Edwin N. Lightfoot, Stephen Lippard, Philip Allen Sharp, Thomas E. Starzl, Dennis Sullivan
2005: Jan D. Achenbach, Ralph Alpher, Gordon H. Bower, Bradley Efron, Anthony Fauci, Tobin Marks, Lonnie Thompson, Torsten N. Wiesel
2006: Hyman Bass, Marvin Caruthers, Rita R. Colwell, Peter Dervan, Nina V. Fedoroff, Daniel Kleppner, Robert S. Langer, Lubert Stryer
2007: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove,  Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Bert W. O'Malley, Charles P. Slichter, Andrew J. Viterbi, David J. Wineland 
2009: Berni Alder, James E. Gunn, Francis S. Collins, Joanna S. Fowler, Elaine Fuchs, Rudolf E. Kalman, Michael I. Posner, JoAnne Stubbe, J. Craig Venter
2010: Ralph L. Brinster, Shu Chien, Rudolf Jaenisch, Jacqueline K. Barton, Peter J. Stang, Richard A. Tapia, Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan
2011: Allen Bard, Sallie Chisholm, Sidney Drell, Sandra Faber, Sylvester James Gates, Solomon Wolf Golomb, John Bannister Goodenough, Marion Frederick Hawthorne, Leroy Hood, Barry Mazur, Lucy Shapiro, Anne Treisman
2012: Robert Axelrod, Bruce Alberts, May Berenbaum, David Blackwell, Alexandre Chorin, Thomas Kailath, Judith Klinman, Jerrold Meinwald, Burton Richter, Sean Solomon
2013: Michael Artin, Rakesh Jain, Geraldine Richmond 
2014: Paul Alivisatos, Albert Bandura, Stanley Falkow, Shirley Ann Jackson, Mary-Claire King, Simon Levin

Källor
 National Medal of Science, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Externa länkar
 Databas över alla pristagare

Amerikanska vetenskapsmedaljer
Priser och utmärkelser instiftade 1959