Awards & Winners

1967 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1967 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1967 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Jesse Beams

(For sustained and ingenious contributions to the scientific development of high-speed centrifuges, a family of devices that are now widely applied in the physical and biological sciences, in medicine, and in engineering scale isotope-separation.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Francis Birch

(For outstanding contributions to geophysics which have immeasurably increased our understanding of the composition and the processes of the interior of the earth.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Gregory Breit

(For pioneering contributions to the theoretical understanding of nuclear structure and particle dynamics, for highly significant work in atomic and ionospheric physics, and for the inspiration he has given to several generations of American physicists.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Paul Cohen

(For epoch-making results in mathematical logic which have enlivened and broadened investigations in the foundation of mathematics.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Kenneth Stewart Cole

(For highly original experimental and theoretical investigations of the electrical properties of biological membranes that have led to a deep understanding of the functioning of nerves.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Louis Plack Hammett

(For his joining together physical and organic chemistry, creating new concepts, and replacing intuition by rigor in our growing understanding of chemical reactivity.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Harry Harlow

(For original and ingenious contributions to comparative and experimental psychology, particularly in the controlled study of learning and motivations, the determinants of animal behavior, and development of affectional behavior.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Michael Heidelberger

(For placing the science of immunology on a quantitative chemical basis, and for showing its power to reveal the structure of molecules found in the living organism.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

George Kistiakowsky

(For contributions to physical chemistry, particularly to the understanding of reaction rates, and for statesmanship in the evolution of relationships between science and public affairs.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Edwin H. Land

(For many discoveries and inventions in the field of polarized light, rapid photography, including quick processing of the final photograph, for the development of a unique theory of color vision, and for contributions to national defense.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Igor Sikorsky

(For pioneering in the development of multi-engined aircraft, both land and sea planes, and for developing the helicopter as a useful and important device of aerial transportation.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Alfred Sturtevant

(For a long and distinguished career in genetics during which he discovered and interpreted a number of important genetic phenomena in Drosophila and other organisms.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry