Dickson Prize
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The Dickson Prize in Medicine and the Dickson Prize in Science were both established in 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fischer Dickson. , 11 of the recipients had gone on to win the Nobel Prize
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, and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progressive contributions" to medicine. The award includes $50,000, a bronze medal, and the Dickson Prize Lecture.
, and recognizes those who have "notably advanced the field of science".
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
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Dickson Prize in Medicine
The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the University of PittsburghUniversity of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progressive contributions" to medicine. The award includes $50,000, a bronze medal, and the Dickson Prize Lecture.
- 1971 Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
- 1972 Solomon A. Berson and Rosalyn S. Yalow
- 1973 John H. Gibbon Jr.
- 1974 Stephen W. Kuffler
- 1975 Elizabeth F. NeufeldElizabeth F. NeufeldElizabeth F. Neufeld is an American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.Neufeld and her Russian Jewish family emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1940; they had left Europe as refugees to escape Nazi persecution...
- 1976 Frank J. DixonFrank J. DixonFrank James Dixon was an award-winning biomedical researcher, best known for his research into diseases of the immune system that can damage other organs of the body. Dixon was also noted for having developed techniques involving trace iodines to study proteins.Born in St. Paul, Dixon received his...
- 1977 Roger GuilleminRoger GuilleminRoger Charles Louis Guillemin received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.Completing his undergraduate work at the University of Burgundy, Guillemin...
- 1978 Paul GreengardPaul GreengardPaul Greengard is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous...
- 1979 Bert W. O'MalleyBert W. O'MalleyBert W. O’Malley, M.D. is the Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. A native of Pittsburgh, he has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.D. from their School of Medicine...
- 1980 David H. HubelDavid H. HubelDavid Hunter Hubel is the John Franklin Enders Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was...
and Torsten N. Wiesel - 1981 Philip LederPhilip LederPhilip Leder is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical School....
- 1982 Francis H. Ruddle
- 1983 Eric R. KandelEric R. KandelEric Richard Kandel is an American neuropsychiatrist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons...
- 1984 Solomon H. SnyderSolomon H. SnyderSolomon H. Snyder is an American neuroscientist.Snyder attended Georgetown University 1955-1958 and received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1962. After medical internship at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, he served as a research associate 1963-1965 at the NIH,...
- 1985 Robert C. Gallo
- 1986 J. Michael BishopJ. Michael Bishop-External links:**...
- 1987 Elvin A. KabatElvin A. KabatElvin Abraham Kabat was an Americanbiomedical scientist who is considered one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry together with his mentor Michael Heidelberger...
- 1988 Leroy E. Hood
- 1989 Bernard Moss
- 1990 Ernst Knobil
- 1991 Phillip A. Sharp
- 1992 Francis Sellers Collins
- 1993 Stanley B. PrusinerStanley B. PrusinerStanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco . Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein...
- 1994 Bert VogelsteinBert VogelsteinBert Vogelstein is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins University. He clarified the role of the gene p53, which repairs DNA in dividing cells and destroys the cell if its DNA cannot be repaired. Damaged p53 is responsible for half of all cancers...
- 1995 Ronald M. EvansRonald M. EvansRonald M. Evans is an American professor and biologist who works at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He received his BS and PhD degrees from UCLA, followed by a postdoctoral training in Rockefeller University...
- 1996 Philippa MarrackPhilippa MarrackPhilippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with...
- 1997 Edward Everett Harlow, Jr. and Eric Steven Lander
- 1998 Richard D. Klausner
- 1999 James E. Darnell Jr.
- 2000 Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Dickson Prize Lecture, April 13, 2000: "Telomere Capping and Cell Proliferation")
- 2001 Robert G. RoederRobert G. RoederRobert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, Sept. 12, 2001: "Regulation of Transcription in Human Cells: Complexities and Challenges") - 2002 C. David AllisC. David AllisCharles David Allis is an American molecular biologist, and is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics at The Rockefeller University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, Sept. 18, 2002: "Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails") - 2003 Susan L. Lindquist (Dickson Prize Lecture, Sept. 24, 2003: "Protein Conformation as a Pathway to Understanding Cellular Processes, Disease and Bio-Inspired Materials")
- 2004 Elaine FuchsElaine FuchsElaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, 2004: "Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages") - 2005 Ronald W. DavisRonald W. DavisRonald "Ron" W. Davis Ph.D. is Professor of Biochemistry & Genetics, and Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, 2005: "New Genomic Technology for Yeast Applied to Clinical Medicine") - 2006 Roger D. KornbergRoger D. KornbergRoger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, Oct. 5, 2006: "Chromatin and Transcription") - 2007 Carol W. GreiderCarol W. GreiderCarolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist. She is Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, Oct. 11, 2007: "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction") - 2008 Randy W. Schekman (Dickson Prize Lecture, "Dissecting the Secretion Process: From Basic Mechanism to Human Disease")
- 2009 Victor AmbrosVictor AmbrosVictor Ambros is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA . He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.-Background:...
(Dickson Prize Lecture, "MicroRNAs, from Model Organisms to Human Biology.") - 2010 Stephen J. Elledge
Dickson Prize in Science
The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
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Award recipients by year
- 1970 Richard BellmanRichard BellmanRichard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.-Biography:...
- 1971 George Palade and Keith Roberts Porter
- 1972 Francis L. Ver Snyder
- 1973 Elias J. Corey
- 1974 David M. Geiger
- 1975 - not awarded
- 1976 - not awarded
- 1977 John H. SinfeltJohn H. SinfeltJohn H. Sinfelt was an American chemical engineer whose research on catalytic reforming was responsible for the introduction of unleaded gasoline.Sinfelt was working for the Standard Oil Development Company , where he specialized in developing...
- 1978 Seymour BenzerSeymour BenzerSeymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...
- 1979 - not awarded
- 1980 John Werner Cahn
- 1981 - not awarded
- 1982 Harden M. McConnellHarden M. McConnellHarden M. McConnell is an American physical chemist at Stanford University.-Birth and education:Harden M. McConnell was born on July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. He completed his Bachelor of Science from George Washington University in 1947 and his PhD from the California Institute of...
- 1983-84 Edward FredkinEdward FredkinEdward Fredkin is an early pioneer of digital physics. In recent work, he uses the term digital philosophy . His primary contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata...
- 1985 Norman Davidson
- 1986 Benjamin WidomBenjamin WidomBenjamin Widom is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics...
- 1987 Mitchell FeigenbaumMitchell FeigenbaumMitchell Jay Feigenbaum is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.- Biography :...
- 1988 Joan A. SteitzJoan A. SteitzJoan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which...
- 1989 Richard E. DickersonRichard E. DickersonRichard E. Dickerson was the first to carry out a single-crystal structure analysis of B-DNA, with what has become known as the "Dickerson dodecamer": C-G-C-G-A-A-T-T-C-G-C-G. At UCLA he has continued his investigations of the structures of A- and B-DNA, and of complexes between DNA and drugs or...
- 1990 F. Sherwood Rowland
- 1991 David Botstein
- 1992 Paul LauterburPaul LauterburPaul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
- 1993 Vera RubinVera RubinVera Rubin is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves...
- 1994 Raymond KurzweilRaymond KurzweilRaymond "Ray" Kurzweil is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition , text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments...
- 1995 Leland Hartwell
- 1996 John P. Hirth
- 1997 Walter AlvarezWalter AlvarezWalter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis...
- 1998 Peter ShorPeter ShorPeter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical...
, 25th recipient (Dickson Lecture, Nov. 8, 1999, "Quantum Computing") - 1999 Howard RaiffaHoward RaiffaHoward Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
(Dickson Lecture, Tue. April 4, 2000: "Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist" - 2000 Alexander PinesAlexander PinesAlexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the Department of...
(Dickson Lecture, April 11, 2001: "Some Magnetic Moments" - 2001 Carver MeadCarver MeadCarver Andress Mead is a US computer scientist. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology , having taught there for over 40 years.Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting...
(Dickson Lecture, March 19, 2002: "The Coming Revolution in Photography") - 2002 Robert Langer (Dickson Lecture, Feb. 26, 2003: "Biomaterials And How They Will Change Our Lives")
- 2003 Marc W. Kirschner (Dickson Lecture, March 30, 2004: "Timing the Inner Cell Cycle")
- 2004 George WhitesidesGeorge WhitesidesGeorge Whitesides may refer to:* George M. Whitesides, American chemist* George T. Whitesides, American space scientist and son of the above...
(Dickson Lecture, March 28, 2005: "Assumptions: If common assumptions about the modern world break down, then what could science and technology make happen?") - 2005 David HausslerDavid HausslerDavid Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences on...
(Dickson Lecture, March 9, 2006: "Ultraconserved elements, living fossil transposons, and rapid bursts of change: reconstructing the uneven evolutionary history of the human genome" - 2006 Jared DiamondJared DiamondJared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA...
(Dickson Lecture, March 26, 2007: "Collapse") - 2007 Jean FréchetJean FrechetProfessor Jean M.J. Fréchet is the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley...
- 2008 Richard M. Karp
- 2009 Saul PerlmutterSaul PerlmutterSaul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...
(Dickson Lecture, March 17, 2010: "Stalking Dark Energy & the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe")