Recipients
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 “Jennifer Doudna, “CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology: The Future of Genome Editing”, Ullyot lecture, 2018 |
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1990.
- 2020, Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health[4]
- 2019, Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University[1][5]
- 2018, Jennifer Doudna,[1] University of California, Berkeley[6]
- 2017, Marcia McNutt,[1] president of the National Academy of Sciences[7]
- 2016, Sir James Fraser Stoddart,[1] Nobel Laureate in Chemistry[8]
- 2015, Bruce Alberts,[1] “education president” of the National Academy of Sciences[9]
- 2014, George M. Whitesides,[1] Harvard University[10]
- 2013, Joe Palca,[1] National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent[11][12]
- 2012, Paul Anastas,[1] Yale University[13]
- 2011, Michael Christman,[1] President and CEO, Coriell Institute for Medical Research[14][15]
- 2010, Susan Solomon,[1] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[16][17]
- 2009, Joseph M. DeSimone,[1] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[18][19]
- 2008, Bernard Bigot,[1] High Commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission and Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon[20]
- 2007, Shirley M. Tilghman,[1] President, Princeton University[21][22]
- 2006, Ralph J. Cicerone,[1] President, National Academy of Sciences[23]
- 2005, Marye Anne Fox,[1] Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego[24]
- 2004, Phillip A. Sharp,[1]Massachusetts Institute of Technology[25][26]
- 2003, Alfred Bader,[1] Aldrich Chemical Company[27][28]
- 2002, Jacqueline K. Barton,[1][21] California Institute of Technology[29][30]
- 2001, Robert S. Langer,[1] Massachusetts Institute of Technology[31][32]
- 2000, Mark S. Wrighton,[1] Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis[33]
- 1999, George B. Rathmann,[1] Founding CEO of Amgen[34]
- 1998, Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr.,[1] Chairman and CEO, Eastman Chemical Company[35][36]
- 1997, P. Roy Vagelos,[1][21] former CEO of Merck & Co.[37]
- 1996, Harold E. Varmus,[21] Director, National Cancer Institute[38]
- 1995, Carl Djerassi,[39] Stanford University[40][41]
- 1994, Orlando Aloysius Battista, Director, Carrington Laboratories[42]
- 1993, Bassam Shakhashiri, Assistant Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)[43]
- 1992, Maxine F. Singer, Carnegie Institution for Science[44]
- 1991, Harry B. Gray, Beckman Institute at Caltech
- 1990, Mary L. Good, Chair, National Science Foundation[45][46]