The NAS Award in the Neurosciences is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...

  "in recognition of extraordinary contributions to progress in the fields of neuroscience, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and behavioral and clinical neuroscience." It was first awarded in 1988.

List of NAS Award in the Neurosciences winners

• 2010: Roger A. Nicoll
• 2007: Jean-Pierre Changeux
  Jean-Pierre Changeux
  Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins , to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions...
  
  
• 2004: Brenda Milner
  Brenda Milner
  Brenda Milner, is a Canadian neuroscientist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. -Biography:...
  
  
• 2001: Seymour Benzer
  Seymour Benzer
  Seymour 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...
  
  
• 1998: Vernon B. Mountcastle
• 1994: Walle J. H. Nauta
  Walle Nauta
  Dr. Walle J. H. Nauta was a leading neuroscientist. Nauta was born in 1916 in Medan, Dutch East Indies. He was an Institute Professor at MIT....
  
  
• 1991: Paul Greengard
  Paul Greengard
  Paul 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...
  
  
• 1988: Seymour S. Kety
  Seymour S. Kety
  Seymour S. Kety was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease...
  
   and Louis Sokoloff

External links

• NAS Award in the Neurosciences National Academy of Sciences web site