Awards & Winners

1999 National Medal of Science

Check winners and nominations of 1999 National Medal of Science. Check awards winners of 1999 National Medal of Science. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science

Robert Solow

(For his creation of the modern framework for analyzing the effects of investment and technological progress on economic growth, greatly influencing economics and economic policy worldwide.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

David Baltimore

(For his fundamental discoveries in virology, tumor biology and immunology, notably the discovery of how tumor-causing viruses multiply; for his devotion to building excellence in scientific institutions; and for his statesmanship in fostering communication between scientists and the general public.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Felix Browder

(For his pioneering work in nonlinear functional analysis and its applications to partial differential equations, and for leadership in the scientific community.)
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Ronald Coifman

(For his fundamental contributions to pure mathematics in the field of harmonic analysis, and for his achievements in the adaptation of that field to the capabilities of the digital computer to produce a family of fast, robust computational tools that have substantially benefited science and technology.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

James Cronin

(For his fundamental contributions to the fields of elementary particle physics and astrophysics and his leadership in creating an international effort to determine the unknown origins of very high-energy cosmic rays.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Jared Diamond

(For his exceptionally creative scholarship, including seminal research in physiology, ecology, conservation biology, and history; for his outstanding role in communicating science by explaining technical advances in widely understandable terms, and for his overwhelming dedication to science's role in building a better future.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science

Leo Kadanoff

(For fundamental theoretical research in the areas of statistical, solid state and nonlinear physics and, in particular, for the development of scaling techniques in these fields.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences

Lynn Margulis

(For her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry

Stuart A. Rice

(For changing the very nature of modern physical chemistry through his research, teaching, a nd writing, using imaginative approaches to both experiment and theory that have inspired a new generation of scientists.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry

John Ross

(For his outstanding contribution and enormous impact in physical chemistry, in particular molecular studies, the kinetics and thermodynamics of nonlinear systems, and new approaches to the determination of complex chemical and biological reaction mechanisms.)
National Medal of Science for Chemistry

Susan Solomon

(For key scientific insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic Ozone hole and for advancing the understanding of the global ozone layer; for changing the direction of ozone research through her findings; and for exemplary service to worldwide public policy decisions and to the American public.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering

Kenneth N. Stevens

(For his leadership and pioneering contributions to the theory of acoustics of speech production and perception, development of mathematical methods of analysis and modeling to study the acoustics of speech production, and establishing the contemporary foundations of speech science.)

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