National Academy of Sciences - Awards

Awards

The Academy gives a number of different awards:

• General
  • John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
  • NAS Award for Initiatives in Research
  • NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
  • Public Welfare Medal

• Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Henry Draper Medal
  • J. Lawrence Smith Medal
  • James Craig Watson Medal

• Behavioral/Social Sciences
  • NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • Troland Research Awards

• Biology and Medicine
  • Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
  • Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
  • Richard Lounsbery Award
  • NAS Award in Molecular Biology
  • NAS Award in the Neurosciences
  • Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal
  • Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology

• Chemistry
  • NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
  • NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society

• Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Alexander Agassiz Medal
  • Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship
  • Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
  • Mary Clark Thompson Medal
  • Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
  • G. K. Warren Prize

• Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering - aeronautical engineering
  • Gibbs Brothers Medal - naval architecture, marine engineering
  • NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science

• Mathematics and Computer Science
  • NAS Award in Mathematics

• Physics
  • Arctowski Medal
  • Comstock Prize in Physics
  • Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics