Awards & Winners

1993 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1993 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1993 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Chemistry

Donald J. Cram

(For his pioneering research on the chemical foundations of molecular recognition; the understanding of the molecular basis of biological systems; his shaping of scientific thought and development, and guidance to generations of students.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Daniel Nathans

(For his seminal research in molecular genetics that formed a foundation for contemporary biotechnology.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Alfred Y. Cho

(For his pioneering work in the development of molecular beam epitaxy, which revolutionized thin film growth, making possible atomically accurate structures for elecronic and proelecronic devices, and for the study of new quantum phenomena.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Val Logsdon Fitch

(For his pioneering experiments at the frontiers of physics, from his measurement of the properties of mu-mesons in nuclei to his co-discovery that nature violates a fundamental spacetime symmetry property; and for his leadership on National science policy.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry

Norman Hackerman

(For his seminal contributions in the field of electrochemistry; for his effective and far-seeing vision in higher education; and for his devoted service to the nation and science.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Martin David Kruskal

(For his influence as a leader in nonlinear science for more than two decades as the principal architect of the theory of soliton solutions of nonlinear equations of evolution.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Vera Rubin

(For her pioneering research programs in observational cosmology which demonstrated that much of the matter in the universe is dark and for significant contributions to the realization that the universe is more complex and more mysterious than had been imagined.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

(For her lifetime of work on developmental genetics, providing a large body of knowledge on the study of mammalian genetics.)