AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
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The Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and "honors scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility".
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
and "honors scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility".
Recipients
- 2010 Nancy OlivieriNancy Fern OlivieriNancy Fern Olivieri, BSc, MD, FRCPC, is a prominent Toronto haematologist and researcher with an interest in the treatment of hemoglobinopathies....
- 2009 Drummond Rennie
- 2008 James HansenJames HansenJames E. Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He has held this position since 1981...
- 2007 Eugenie ScottEugenie ScottEugenie Carol Scott is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education since 1987...
et. al. - 2006 David MichaelsDavid Michaels (epidemiologist)David Michaels is currently the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration . He is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr...
- 2005 rDNA Advisory Committee
- 2004 Walter Reich
- 2003 L. Dennis Smith
- 2001 Howard K. SchachmanHoward SchachmanHoward K. Schachman is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.Schachman received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948. He has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley ever since. He signed but protested the loyalty oath...
- 2000 Aleksandr NikitinAlexander NikitinAleksander Nikitin, a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist, started to co-operate with Norwegian environmental Bellona Foundation in 1994. He was arrested in February 1996 by Russian FSB and charged with treason through espionage for his...
- 1999 Joel L. LebowitzJoel LebowitzJoel L. Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics...
- 1998 JoAnn Burkholder
- 1997 Salim Kheirbek
- 1996 Daniel CallahanDaniel CallahanDaniel Callahan was born July 19, 1930. Callahan is a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics.·In high school Callahan was a swimmer and choose to attend Yale University because of its competitive swimming program. While at Yale, he was drawn to...
- 1995 Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov
- 1994 June E. Osborn, Mathilde KrimMathilde KrimMathilde Krim, Ph.D. is the founding chairman of amfAR, an association for AIDS research.-Biography:Krim received her Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1953...
- 1993 Daniel L. Albritton, Robert T. WatsonRobert Watson (scientist)Robert T. Watson is a British scientist who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s.- Education and awards :...
- 1992 Inez Austin
- 1991 Adrian R. Morrison
- 1990 Matthew S. MeselsonMatthew MeselsonMatthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant...
- 1989 Robert L. Sprague, Natural Resources Defense CouncilNatural Resources Defense CouncilThe Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...
- 1988 Richard L. GarwinRichard GarwinRichard Lawrence Garwin , is an American physicist. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1949, where he worked in the lab of Enrico Fermi.Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J...
, Roger M. BoisjolyRoger BoisjolyRoger M. Boisjoly is a mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist and an aerodynamicist who worked for Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle program... - 1987 Stanley L. WeinbergStanley L. WeinbergStanley L. Weinberg was the founder of the National Center for Science Education.-External links:* by Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of NCSE....
, Norman D. NewellNorman D. NewellNorman Dennis Newell was professor of geology at Columbia University, and chairman and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.-Personal life:...
, Francisco J. AyalaFrancisco J. AyalaFrancisco José Ayala Pereda is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the US in 1961 to study for... - 1986 Colegio Medico de Chile, Victor Paschkis
- 1985 Werner A. BaumWerner A. BaumWerner A. Baum is the 2nd chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the 7th president of University of Rhode Island ....
- 1983 Anatoly KoryaginAnatoly KoryaginAnatoly Ivanovich Koryagin is a Russian psychiatrist and Soviet dissident. He holds a Candidate of Science degree .- Early career :...
, Jose Westerkamp - 1982 Paul BergPaul BergPaul Berg is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids...
, Maxine SingerMaxine SingerMaxine Frank Singer is an American molecular biologist and science administrator. She is known for her contributions to solving the genetic code, her role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniques , and her leadership of Carnegie Institution of Washington.Singer...
, Norton ZinderNorton ZinderNorton Zinder is an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969...
, Morris H. Baslow