Awards & Winners

1966 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1966 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1966 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

(For numerous superb contributions to stellar astronomy, physics, and applied mathematics, and for his guidance and inspiration to his many students and colleagues.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

John Milnor

(For clever and ingenious approaches in topology which have solved long outstanding problems and opened new exciting areas in this active branch of mathematics.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Henry Eyring

(For contributions to our understanding of the structure and properties of matter, especially for his creation of absolute rate theory, one of the sharpest tools in the study of rates of chemical reaction.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Jacob Bjerknes

(By watching and studying maps he discovered the cylone-making waves of the air and the climate-controlling changes of the sea.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Edward F. Knipling

(For outstanding original contributions involving unique biological approaches to the control of insect vectors responsible for diseases of humans, domesticated animals, and plants.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Fritz Albert Lipmann

(For original discoveries of molecular mechanisms for the transfer and transformation of energy in living cells, and for fundamental contributions to the conceptual structure of modern biochemistry.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

William Cumming Rose

(For the discovery of the essential amino acid threonine and for the subsequent brilliant studies elucidating the qualitative and quantitative amino acid requirements of man and of animals.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Claude Shannon

(For brilliant contributions to the mathematical theories of communications and information processing and for his early and continuing impact on the development of these disciplines.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

(For his many contributions to the develoment of the theory of molecular structure and for his profound influence, through original contributions and through many brilliant students, on the theory of the magnetic and dielectric properties of materials.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Sewall Wright

(For original and sustained contributions to the mathematical foundations of the theory of evolution and for basic contributions to experimental and biometrical genetics.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Vladimir K. Zworykin

(For major contributions to the instruments of science, engineering and television, and for his stimulation of the application fo engineering to medicine.)