National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science was established by Congress in 1959, and it is awarded through the National Science Foundation. The list below is automatically generated from the pages of individuals listed in ACAP who have won the award.
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Recipients
- 1962: Theodore von Kármán
- 1963: Luis Alvarez
- 1963: Vannevar Bush
- 1964: Julian Schwinger
- 1964: Harold Urey
- 1965: John Bardeen
- 1965: Peter Debye
- 1965: Hugh Dryden
- 1965: Leon Lederman
- 1966: Jacob Bjerknes
- 1966: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1966: John Van Vleck
- 1967: Jesse Beams
- 1967: A. Francis Birch
- 1967: Gregory Breit
- 1967: George Kistiakowsky
- 1968: Herbert Friedman
- 1968: Lars Onsager
- 1968: Eugene Wigner
- 1969: Jack Kilby
- 1969: Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky
- 1970: Robert Dicke
- 1970: John Slater
- 1970: John Wheeler
- 1973: Harold Edgerton
- 1973: Frederick Seitz
- 1973: Robert R. Wilson
- 1974: Nicolaas Bloembergen
- 1974: William A. Fowler
- 1974: Rudolf Kompfner
- 1975: Hans Bethe
- 1975: Frederick Terman
- 1975: Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1976: Kurt Friedrichs
- 1976: Samuel Goudsmit
- 1976: Herbert Gutowsky
- 1976: Erwin Müller
- 1976: George Uhlenbeck
- 1979: Richard Feynman
- 1979: Raymond Mindlin
- 1979: Robert Noyce
- 1979: Edward Purcell
- 1979: Lyman Spitzer Jr.
- 1979: Victor Weisskopf
- 1982: Philip Anderson
- 1982: Yoichiro Nambu
- 1982: Edward Teller
- 1982: Charles Townes
- 1983: Maurice Goldhaber
- 1983: Frederick Reines
- 1983: Bruno Rossi
- 1983: J. Robert Schrieffer
- 1986: Solomon Buchsbaum
- 1986: H. Richard Crane
- 1986: Herman Feshbach
- 1986: Robert Hofstadter
- 1986: Hans Liepmann
- 1986: Chen Ning "Frank" Yang
- 1987: Philip Abelson
- 1987: Walter Elsasser
- 1987: George Pake
- 1987: James Van Allen
- 1987: Ernst Weber
- 1988: D. Allan Bromley
- 1988: Ching-Wu "Paul" Chu
- 1988: Walter Kohn
- 1988: Norman Ramsey
- 1988: Jack Steinberger
- 1989: Harry Drickamer
- 1989: Eugene Parker
- 1990: George Carrier
- 1990: Allan Cormack
- 1990: Mildred Dresselhaus
- 1990: Edwin McMillan
- 1990: Robert Pound
- 1991: Arthur Schawlow
- 1991: Glenn Seaborg
- 1991: H. Guyford Stever
- 1991: Steven Weinberg
- 1993: Val Fitch
- 1993: Martin Kruskal
- 1994: Albert Overhauser
- 1994: Frank Press
- 1995: Hans Dehmelt
- 1995: Hermann Haus
- 1996: C. Kumar N. Patel
- 1997: Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1997: George Wetherill
- 1998: John Bahcall
- 1998: John Cahn
- 1999: James Cronin
- 1999: Leo Kadanoff
- 2000: Willis Lamb Jr.
- 2001: Andreas Acrivos
- 2001: Marvin Cohen
- 2001: Raymond Davis Jr.
- 2002: Richard Garwin
- 2002: James Glimm
- 2002: Edward Witten
- 2003: Riccardo Giacconi
- 2006: Daniel Kleppner
- 2007: Charles Slichter
- 2007: David Wineland
- 2008: Berni Alder
- 2009: Yakir Aharonov
- 2009: Esther Conwell
- 2009: Amnon Yariv
- 2011: Sidney Drell
- 2011: S. James Gates, Jr.
- 2011: John Goodenough
