Awards & Winners

1965 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1965 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1965 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Physical Science

John Bardeen

(For his brilliant contributions to the theory of electrical conductivity in solid materials, and especially those which led to the development of a successful theory of superconductivity.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Peter Debye

(For sustained contributions of major concepts of modern chemistry and especially for the application of physical methods to the understanding of large molecules and their interaction in solution.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Hugh Latimer Dryden

(For contributions as an engineer, administrator, and civil servant for one-half century to aeronautics and astronautics which have immesurably supported the Nation's preeminence in space.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Kelly Johnson

(For bold innovations in the use of materials and in the design of aircraft of unusual configurations that pioneered new vistas for the possibility of flight.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Leon M. Lederman

(For systematic studies of mesons, for his participation in the discovery of two kinds of neutrinos and of parity violation in the decay of mu-mesons.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Warren K. Lewis

(For contributions as a scientist, teacher, and inventor who as the leader of modern chemical engineering has made the American chemical industry preeminent in the world.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Francis Peyton Rous

(For the original discovery and continued elaboration of the relationship between viruses and tumors, which has come to form the biologic base for so much of our present research effort on cancer.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

William Walden Rubey

(For showing by profoundly original observations and clear physical reasoning how sand grains and mountains move and from whence the oceans come.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

George Gaylord Simpson

(For penetrating studies of vertebrate evolution through geologic time, and for scholarly synthesis of a new understanding of organic evolution based upon genetics and paleontology.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Donald Van Slyke

(For classic studies of the chemistry of blood and of amino acid metabolism, and for the quantitative biochemical methodology underlying much of clinical medicine.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Oscar Zariski

(For his creation of a rigorous abstract theory of algebraic geometry, and for his profound influence--especially through many brilliant students--on the algebraic structure of contemporary pure mathematics.)