National Medal of Science - 1988

Check winners and nominations of 1988 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1988 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science Milton Friedman (For his theoretical contributions, and for application, of the principles of scientific empirical and statistical methods to the field of economics and the social sciences, and to problems critical to the Nation in general.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry William O. Baker (For pioneering studies of the complex relationships between the molecular structures and physical propoerties of polymers, for a distinguished record of leadership in the combined disciplines of science and engineering, and for distinguished service to government and education.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry Konrad Emil Bloch (For his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science David Allan Bromley (For seminal work on nuclear molecules, for development of tandem acfelerators and semi-conductor detectors for charged particles, for his contributions to particle-gamma correlation studies, and for his role in founding the field of precision heavy-ion physics.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Michael Stuart Brown (For their historic discovery of the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol metabolism, opening the way to a new pharmacologic approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death and disability in the Western world.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science Chu Ching-wu (For his wide-ranging congributions in achieving stable superconductivity at -290 degrees F, above the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen (-321 degrees F); and for his particiaption in the discovery of another superconducting compound, this one stable at a higher temperature (-243 de4grees F) and not using rare-earth elements.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Stanley Norman Cohen (For his discovery of methods for propagating and expressing the hereditary information of DNA introduced into living cells, thereby enabling the cloning of individual genes and the study of their structure and function.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry Elias James Corey (For his strikingly original contributions to organic synthesis, which have brought the science of organic chemistry to a new level of power and precision.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering Daniel C. Drucker (For pioneering contributions to the development of the theory of plasticity and of limit design, for leadership in engineering educatgion and in engineering societies promoting excellence, and for his influential advisory service to the Nation.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Joseph L. Goldstein (For their historic discovery of the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol metabolism, opening the way to a new pharmacologic approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death and disability in the Western world.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science Ralph E. Gomory (For his scientific contributions to the mathematics of discrete optimization and its far-reaching influence on information processing; for bringing to a leading position one of industry's most sigificant research establishments; and for his contributions to public and private scientific enterprise.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering Willis Hawkins (For his contributions - through invention, development, management, and advice - to the technical health and competitive status of the United State aeronautical products, sound deterrent weapons systems, and space prowess.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Maurice Hilleman (For his brilliant discoveries in basic research and ingenious inventiveness in creating vaccines that are the foundation for control of infectious diseases through immunologic intervention, preventing death and disability in millions of persons worldwide.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering George W. Housner (For his profound and decisive influence on the development of earthquake engineering worldwide. His research contributions have guided the development of earthquake engineering and have had an important impact on other major disciplines.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Eric Kandel (For discovering the first cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to simple learning and memory.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science Joseph Keller (For his outstanding contribution to the geometrical theory of diffraction. This is a major extension of geometrical optics which succeeds, after many centuries, in adding the physics of diffraction to the simple ray concepts of optics and of other wave motions.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science Walter Kohn (For his pioneering fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of solids, including the effective mass approach to defects in semiconductors, the so-called KKR method of band structure, and, most importantly, the density functional approach to the many-electron problem which has led to great advances in the understanding of bulk solids and solid surfaces.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (For his seminal investigations in broad areas of atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics, and for his dedicated service to the Nation and to the scientific community.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science Jack Steinberger (For his incisive illumination of the properties of subnuclear particles, including exhaustive measurements of strange particles, neutral kaons, and high energy neutrino interactions.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (For her historic contributions to the discovery and development of radioimmunassay, a technique that employs radioactive isotopes to detect and measure the levels of insulin and hormones in the blood and body tissues.)

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1988 National Medal of Science

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