Check all the winners of National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science presented under National Medal of Science since 1964 .
Anne Treisman(For a 50-year career of penetrating originality and depth that has led to the understanding of fundamental attentional limits in the human mind and brain.) |
Mortimer Mishkin(For his contributions to understanding the neural basis of perception and memory in primates, notably the delineation of sensory neocortical processing systems especially for vision, audition, and somatic sensation, and the organization of memory systems in the brain.) |
Michael I. Posner(For his innovative application of technology to the understanding of brain function, his incisive and accurate modeling of functional tasks, and his development of methodological and conceptual tools to help understand the mind and the development of brain networks of attention.) |
Gordon H. Bower(For his unparalleled contributions to cognitive and mathematical psychology, for his lucid analyses of memory and learning, and for his important service to psychology and to American science.) |
Kenneth Arrow(For his contribution to the field of economics exemplified by his work on general equilibrium theory, social welfare theory, endogenous growth theory, health economics, and information economics. ) |
R. Duncan Luce(For his half century of avances in economics, psychology, and sociology based on mathematical modeling of behavior.) |
Gary Becker(For his pioneering the economic analysis of racial discrimination, inventing the economics of human resources, producing the major modern innovations in economic demography and in economic criminology, and leading recent developments in how social forces shape individual economic behavior.) |
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.) |
William Julius Wilson(For his innovative approach to studying urban poverty, his dedication to the proposition that rigorous social science change will improve his fellow American's lives, and his advocacy of policies which reflect more accurately what we have learned from research and which therefore take a broader point of view with respect to the interactions of race, class, and location.) |
William Kaye Estes(For his fundamental theories of learning, memory, and decision. His pioneering development and testing of mathematical models of psychological processes have set the standard for theoretical progress in behavioral and cognitive science.) |
Paul Samuelson(For fundamental contributions to economic science, specifically general equilibrium theory and macroeconomics, and to economic education and policy over a period fo nearly 60 years.) |
Roger Shepard(For his theoretical and experimental work elucidating the human mind's perception of the physical world and why the human mind has evolved to represent objects as it does; and for giving purpose to the field of cognitive science and demonstrating the value of bringing the insights of many scientific disciplines to bear in scientific problem solving.) |
Robert K. Merton(For founding the sociology of science and for his pioneering contributions to the study of social life, especially the self-fulfilling prophecy and the unintended consequences of social action.) |
Eleanor J. Gibson(For her conceptual insights in developing a theory of perceptual learning; and for achieving a deeper understanding of perceptual development in children and basic processes in reading.) |
George A. Miller(For his innovative leadership in the scientific study of language and cognition, and for his commitment to imrpoved education for literacy.) |
Leonid Hurwicz(For his pioneering work on the theory of modern decentralized allocaiton mechanisms.) |
Patrick Suppes(For his broad efforts to deepen the theoretical and empirical understanding of four major areas: the measurement of subjective probability and utility in uncertain situations; the development and testing of general learning theory; the semantics and syntax of natural language; and the use of interactive computer programs for instruction.) |
Robert Sperry(For his work on neurospecificity which showed how the intricate brain networks for behavior are effected through a system of chemical coding of individual cells, which has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of human nature.) |
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.) |
George Stigler(For his efforts to advance the understanding of industry, its internal organization and relation to government, and for initiating the study of information and markets.) |
Anne Anastasi(For her work in the development of the discipline of differential psychology as a behavioral science, which illuminates the way traits are influenced by heredity and environment and the methods by which traits and human characteristics are measured.) |
Herbert Simon(For his fundamental contributions to our understanding of human problem-solving behavior and decisionmaking, particularly in organizations.) |
Charles Stark Draper(For [his] innumerable imaginative engineering achievements which met urgent National needs of instrumentation, control, and guidance in aeronautics and astronautics.) |
Solomon Lefschetz(For [his] indomitable leadership in developing mathematics and training mathematicians, for [his] fundamental publications in algebraic geometry and topology, and for stimulating needed research in nonlinear control processes.) |
Neal E. Miller(For [his] sustained and imaginative research on principles of learning and motivation and illuminating behavioral analysis of the effects of direct electrical stimulation of the brain.) |
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