Awards & Winners

1968 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1968 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1968 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Eugene Wigner

(For his many unique innovations in the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences ranging from quantum chemistry to nuclear theory and from reactor engineering to civil defense.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Jay Laurence Lush

(For bringing the science of genetics to bear upon animal breeding, and thus helping to remould the flocks and herds of America and Western Europe.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

H. A. Barker

(For his profound study of the chemical activities of microorgqanisms, including the unraveling of fatty acid metabolism and the discovery of the active coenzyme form of vitamin B12.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Paul Doughty Bartlett

(For his leadership in advancing our understanding of the mechanisms by which chemical reactions take place, and for his success in training younger teachers and researchers.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Bernard Brodie

(For pioneering new qualitative concepts which have revolutionzed the development, the study, and the effective use of therapeutic agents in the treatment of human disease.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Detlev Bronk

(For his highly original research in the field of physiology and for his manifold contributions to the advance of science and its institution in the service of society.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

J. Presper Eckert

(For pioneering and containuing contributions in creating, developing, and improving the high-speed electronic digital computer.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Herbert Friedman

(For pioneering work in rocket and satellite astronomy and in particular for his contributions to the field of X-ray astronomy.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Nathan M. Newmark

(For contributions to the development of powerful and widely used methods for analyzing complex structural components and assemblies under a variety of conditions of loading.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Jerzy Neyman

(For laying the foundations of modern statistics and devising tests and procedure that have become essential parts of the knowledge of every statistician.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Lars Onsager

(For a brilliant variety of seminal contributions to the understanding of electrolytes and other chemical systems, especially to the thermodynamics of systems in change.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

B. F. Skinner

(For basic and imaginative contributions to the study of behavior which have had profound influence upon all of psychology and many related areas.)

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