List of National Medal of Science winners

The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields, behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. The Committee on the National Medal of Science under the National Science Foundation (NSF) is responsible for recommending medal candidates to the President.

Behavorial and social science

• 1964 Roger Adams, Othmar H. Ammann, Theodosius Dobzhansky,Charles S. Draper, Solomon Lefschetz, Neal Elgar Miller, H. Marston Morse, Marshall W. Nirenberg
• 1986 Herbert A. Simon
• 1987 Anne Anastasi, George J. Stigler
• 1988 Milton Friedman
• 1989 Roger W. Sperry
• 1990 Leonid Hurwicz, Patrick Suppes
• 1991 Robert W. Kates, George A. Miller
• 1992 Eleanor J. Gibson
• 1994 Robert K. Merton
• 1995 Roger N. Shepard
• 1996 Paul A. Samuelson
• 1997 William K. Estes
• 1998 William Julius Wilson
• 1999 Robert M. Solow
• 2000 Gary S. Becker
• 2001 George F. Bass
• 2003 R. Duncan Luce

Biology

• 1963 Cornelius Van Niel
• 1965 Francis P. Rous, George G. Simpson, Donald D. Van Slyke
• 1966 Edward F. Knipling, Fritz A. Lipmann, William C. Rose, Sewall Wright
• 1967 Kenneth S. Cole, Harry F. Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, Alfred H. Sturtevant
• 1968 H. A. Barker, Bernard B. Brodie, Detlev W. Bronk, Jay Lush, B. Frederick Skinner
• 1969 Robert J. Huebner, Ernst Mayr
• 1970 Barbara McClintock, Albert B. Sabin
• 1973 Daniel I. Arnon, Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
• 1974 Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff, James Van Gundia Neel, James Augustine Shannon
• 1975 Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy, Sterling Brown Hendricks, Orville Alvin Vogel
• 1976 Roger C.L. Guillemin, Keith Roberts Porter, Efraim Racker, Edward O. Wilson
• 1979 Robert H. Burris, Elizabeth C. Crosby, Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa, Earl Reece Stadtman, George Ledyard Stebbins, Paul A. Weiss
• 1981 Philip Handler
• 1982 Seymour Benzer, Glenn W. Burton, Mildred Cohn
• 1983 Howard L. Bachrach, Paul Berg, Wendell L. Roelofs, Berta Scharrer
• 1986 Stanley Cohen, Donald A. Henderson, Vernon B. Mountcastle, George Emil Palade, Joan A. Steitz
• 1987 Michael E. Debakey, Theodor O. Diener, Harry Eagle, Har Gobind Khorana, Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 1988 Michael S. Brown, Stanley N. Cohen, Joseph L. Goldstein, Maurice R. Hilleman, Eric R. Kandel, Rosalyn S. Yalow
• 1989 Katherine Esau, Viktor Hamburger, Philip Leder, Joshua Lederberg, Harland G. Wood
• 1990 Baruj Benacerraf, Herbert W. Boyer, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Edward B. Lewis, David G. Nathan, E. Donnall Thomas
• 1991 Mary Ellen Avery, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Elvin A. Kabat, Salvador E. Luria, Paul A. Marks, Folke K Skoog, Paul C. Zamecnik
• 1992 Maxine Singer, Howard M. Temin
• 1993 Daniel Nathans, Salome G. Waelsch
• 1994 Thomas Eisner, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1995 Alexander Rich
• 1996 Ruth Patrick
• 1997 James D. Watson, Robert A. Weinberg
• 1998 Bruce Ames, Janet Rowley
• 1999 David Baltimore, Jared Diamond, Lynn Margulis
• 2000 Nancy C. Andreasen, Peter H. Raven, Carl Woese
• 2001 Francisco J. Ayala, Mario R. Capecchi, Ann M. Graybiel, Gene E. Likens, Victor A. McKusick, Harold Varmus
• 2002 James E. Darnell, Evelyn M. Witkin
• 2003 J. Michael Bishop, Solomon H. Snyder, Charles Yanofsky

Chemistry

• 1982 F. Albert Cotton, Gilbert Stork
• 1983 Roald Hoffmann, George C. Pimentel, Richard N. Zare
• 1986 Harry Gray, Yuan Tseh Lee, Carl S. Marvel, Frank H. Westheimer
• 1987 William S. Johnson, Walter H. Stockmayer, Max, Tishler
• 1988 William O. Baker, Konrad E. Bloch, Elias J. Corey
• 1989 Richard B. Bernstein, Melvin Calvin, Rudoph A. Marcus, Harden M. McConnel
• 1990 Elkan R. Blout, Karl, Flokers, John D. Roberts
• 1991 Ronald Breslow, Gertrude B. Elion, Dudley R. Herschbach, Glenn T. Seaborg
• 1992 Howard E. Simmons, Jr.
• 1993 Donald J. Cram, Norman Hackerman
• 1994 George S. Hammond
• 1995 Thomas Cech, Isabella L. Karle
• 1996 Norman Davidson
• 1997 Darleane C. Hoffman, Harold S. Johnston
• 1998 John W. Cahn, George M. Whitesides
• 1999 Stuart A. Rice, John Ross, Susan Solomon
• 2000 John D. Baldeschwieler, Ralph F. Hirschmann
• 2001 Ernest R. Davidson, Gabor A. Somorjai
• 2002 John I. Brauman

Engineering

• 1962 Theodore Von Karman
• 1963 Vannevar Bush, John Robinson Pierce
• 1965 Hugh L. Dryden, Clarence L. Johnson, Warren K. Lewis
• 1966 Claude E. Shannon
• 1967 Edwin H. Land, Igor I. Sikorsky
• 1968 J. Presper Eckert, Nathan M. Newmark
• 1969 Jack St. Clair Kilby
• 1970 George E. Mueller
• 1973 Harold E. Edgerton, Richard T. Whitcomb
• 1974 Rudolf Kompfner, Ralph Brazelton Peck, Abel Wolman
• 1975 Manson Benedict, William H. Pickering, Frederick E. Terman, Werher Von Braun
• 1976 Morris Cohen, Peter C. Goldmark, Erwin W. Mueller
• 1979 Emmett N. Leith, Raymond D. Mindlin, Robert N. Noyce, Earl R. Parker, Simon, Ramo
• 1982 Edward H. Heinemann, Donald L. Katz
• 1983 William R. Hewlett, George M. Low, John G. Trump
• 1986 Hans Wolfgang Liepmann, T. Y. Lin, Bernard M. Oliver
• 1987 Robert B. Bird, H. Bolton Seed, Ernst Weber
• 1988 Daniel C. Drucker, Willis M. Hawkins, George W. Housner
• 1989 Harry George Drickamer, Herbert E. Grier
• 1990 Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Nick Holonyak Jr.
• 1991 George Heilmeier, Luna B. Leopold, H. Guyford Stever
• 1992 Calvin F. Quate, John Roy Whinnery
• 1993 Alfred Y Cho
• 1994 Ray W. Clough
• 1995 Hermann A. Haus
• 1996 James L. Flanagan, C. Kumar N. Patel
• 1998 Eli Ruckenstein
• 1999 Kenneth N. Stevens
• 2000 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
• 2001 Andreas Acrivos
• 2002 Leo L. Beranek
• 2003 John M. Prausnitz

Mathematics

• 1963 Norbert Wiener
• 1965 Oscar Zariski
• 1966 John Milnor
• 1967 Paul Cohen
• 1968 Jerzy Neyman
• 1969 William Feller
• 1970 Richard Brauer
• 1973 John Tukey
• 1974 Kurt Godel
• 1975 John W. Backus, Shiing-shen Chern, George B. Dantzig
• 1976 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, Hassler Whitney
• 1979 Joseph L. Doob, Donald E. Knuth
• 1982 Marshall Harvey Stone
• 1983 Herman Goldstine, Isadore Singer
• 1986 Peter Lax, Antoni Zygmund
• 1987 Raoul Bott, Michael Freedman
• 1988 Ralph E. Gomory, Joseph B. Keller
• 1989 Samuel Karlin, Saunders MacLane, Donald C. Spencer
• 1990 George F. Carrier, Stephen Cole Kleene, John McCarthy
• 1991 Alberto Calderón
• 1992 Allen Newell
• 1993 Martin Kruskal
• 1994 John Cocke
• 1995 Louis Nirenberg
• 1996 Richard M. Karp, Stephen Smale
• 1997 Shing-Tung Yau
• 1998 Cathleen Synge Morawetz
• 1999 Felix E Browder, Ronald R. Coifman
• 2000 John Griggs Thompson, Karen E. Uhlenbeck
• 2001 Calyampudi R. Rao, Elias M. Stein
• 2002 James G. Glimm
• 2003 Carl R. de Boor

Physics

• 1963 Luis W. Alvarez
• 1964 Julian Schwinger, Harold C. Urey, Robert B. Woodward
• 1965 John Bardeen, Peter Debye, Leon M. Lederman, William Rubey
• 1966 Jacob Bjerknes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Henry Eyring, John H. Van Vleck, Vladimir K. Zworykin
• 1967 Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit, Louis Hammett, George Kistiakowsky
• 1968 Paul Bartlett, Herbert Friedman, Lars Onsager, Eugene Wigner
• 1969 Herbert C. Brown, Wolfgang Panofsky
• 1970 Robert H. Dicke, Allan R. Sandage, John C. Slater, John A. Wheeler, Saul Winstein
• 1973 Carl Djerassi, Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, Vladimir Haensel, Frederick Seitz, Robert Rathbun Wilson
• 1974 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Paul Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Linus Carl Pauling, Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
• 1975 Hans A. Bethe, Joseph Hirschfelder, Lewis Sarett, E. Bright Wilson Jr., Chien-Shiung Wu
• 1976 Samuel Goudsmit, Herbert Gutowsky, Frederick Rossini, Verner Suomi, Henry Taube, George Uhlenbeck
• 1979 Richard P. Feynman, Herman Mark, Edward M. Purcell, John Sinfelt, Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Victor F. Weisskopf
• 1982 Philip W. Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes
• 1983 E. Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Goldhaber, Helmut Landsberg, Walter Munk, Frederick Reines, Bruno B. Rossi, J. Robert Schrieffer
• 1986 Solomon Buchsbaum, Horace Crane, Herman Feshbach, Robert Hofstadter, Chen Ning Yang
• 1987 Philip Abelson, Walter Elsasser, Paul C. Lauterbur, George Pake, James A. Van Allen
• 1988 David Allan Bromley, Paul (Ching-Wu) Chu, Walter Kohn, Norman F. Ramsey, Jack Steinberger
• 1989 Arnold O. Beckman, Eugene Parker, Robert Sharp, Henry Stommel
• 1990 Allan M. Cormack, Edwin M. McMillan, Robert Pound, Roger Revelle
• 1991 Arthur L. Schawlow, Edward Stone, Steven Weinberg
• 1992 Eugene M. Shoemaker
• 1993 Val Fitch, Vera Rubin
• 1994 Albert Overhauser, Frank Press
• 1995 Hans Dehmelt, Peter Goldreich
• 1996 Wallace S. Broecker
• 1997 Marshall Rosenbluth, Martin Schwarzschild, George Wetherill
• 1998 Don Anderson, John N. Bahcall
• 1999 James Cronin, Leo Kadanoff
• 2000 Willis E. Lamb, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Gilbert White
• 2001 Marvin Cohen, Raymond Davis, Charles Keeling
• 2002 Richard Garwin, W. Jason Morgan, Edward Witten
• 2003 G. Brent Dalrymple, Riccardo Giacconi