Awards & Winners

1970 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1970 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1970 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Richard Brauer

(For his work on conjectures of Dickson, Cartan, Maschke, and Artin, his introduction of the Brauer group, and his development of the theory of modular representations.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Robert H. Dicke

(For fashioning radio and light waves into tools of extraordinary accuracy and for decisive studies of cosmology and of the nature of gravitation.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Barbara McClintock

(For establishing the relations between inherited characters in plants and the detailed shapes of their chromosomes, and for showing that some genes are controlled by other genes within chromosomes.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

George Mueller

(For his many individual contributions to the design of the Apollo system, including the planning and interpretation of a large array of advanced experiments necessary to insure the success of this venture into a new and little known environment.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Albert Sabin

(For numerous fundamental contributions to the understanding of viruses and viral diseases, culminating in the development of the vaccine which has eliminated poliomyelitis as a major threat to human health.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Allan Sandage

(For bringing the very limits of the universe within the reach of man's awareness and unraveling the evolution fo stars and galaxies--their origins and ages, distances and destinies.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

John C. Slater

(For wide-ranging contributions to the basic theory of atoms, molecules, and matter in the solid form.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

John Archibald Wheeler

(For his basic contributions to our understanding of the nuclei of atoms, exemplified by his theory of nuclear fission, and his own work and stimulus to others on basic questions of gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Saul Winstein

(In recognition of his many innovative and perceptive contributions to the study of mechanism in organic chemical reactions.)