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NSF Deputy Director Cora Marrett (far left) and NSF Director Subra Suresh (far right) with the 2009 National Medal of Science laureates at the black tie dinner
preceding the White House medals ceremony. The laureates are, from left to right: Amnon Yariv, Warren Washington (former chairman of the National Science Board),
Stanley Prusiner, David Mumford, Mortimer Mishkin, Susan Lindquist, Marye Anne Fox, Esther Conwell, Stephen Benkovic and Yakir Aharonov.
Credit: Sandy Shaeffer for the National Science Foundation
At the ready, a marine holds a National Medal of Science for presentation to a laureate during the White House ceremony.
Credit: Sandy Shaeffer for the National Science Foundation
A plaster cast of the front of the National Medal of Science.
Credit: Donald DeLue, sculptor; photo from the NSF Collection
Both sides of the National Medal of Science. The front reads "National Medal of Science." On the reverse: "Awarded by the President of the
United States of America."
Credit: Steven C. Buhneing, National Science Foundation
John H. Gibbons, science advisor to President Bill Clinton, swears in new committee members (from left) Kenneth Arrow, Charles Schrieffer,
Elsa Garmire, Eric Lander and Joan Steitz, on Oct. 28, 1996, at NSF.
Credit: NSF Collection
1990 Program
Credit: NSF Collection
President John F. Kennedy and Theodore von Kármán
Credit: Official White House Photo; courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Igor Sikorsky
Credit: Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives, Inc.
President Richard M. Nixon and Barbara McClintock
Credit: Official White House Photo
President Gerald R. Ford and Chien-Shiung Wu
Credit: Official White House Photo
President Jimmy Carter and Richard Feynman
Credit: NSF Collection
President Ronald Reagan and the laureates, May 1983
Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
President George H. W. Bush and H. Guyford Stever
Credit: Official White House Photo
President Bill Clinton and a group of laureates, September 1993
Credit: Official White House Photo
President George W. Bush with Charles P. Slichter
Credit: Christy Bowe-ImageCatcher News for NSF
President Barack Obama and Warren Washington
Credit: Official White House Photo
Theodore von Kármán
Credit: Official White House Photo; courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Marshall Nirenberg at NIH in the early 1960s.
Credit: NIH
Igor Sikorsky and his helicopters.
Credit: Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives, Inc.
Barbara McClintock in the lab at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., in April 1963.
Credit: Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society
Albert Sabin administering the vaccine that saved millions from polio.
Credit: Courtesy of Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, University of Cincinnati
Linus Pauling holding a scientific model in October 1975.
Credit: Jose Mercado, Stanford News Service
Chien-Shiung Wu and mechanical equipment in a lab.
Credit: #2205.Wu,ChienShiungInLab; courtesy of University Archives, Columbia University in the City of New York
George Uhlenbeck accepting the Medal of Science from President Jimmy Carter.
Credit: NSF Collection
Harvard University scientist E.O. Wilson in January 2005.
Credit: Rose Lincoln, staff photographer, Harvard University News Office
Richard Feynman
Credit: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Simon Ramo
Credit: NSF Collection
Dean Wooldridge and Simon Ramo (right) compare their pictures in a painting on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1957. Their company did systems
engineering for the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) before merging with Thompson Products in 1958.
Credit: TRW Archive
Roald Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University.
Credit: Gary Hodges, Cornell University
Joan A. Steitz receiving the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan.
Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Joan A. Steitz
Credit: Yale University Office of Public Information
Anne Anastasi
Credit: Goucher College Library Special Collections
Anne Anastasi with Vice President George H.W. Bush and (partly hidden) President Ronald Reagan.
Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Paul (Ching-Wu) Chu, former president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College
of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston.
Credit: Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Stanley N. Cohen, the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine, Stanford University.
Credit: Jose Mercado, Stanford News Service
Mildred S. Dresselhaus holding a model of a carbon nanotube.
Credit: Ed Quinn
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Credit: Georgia Litwack
John D. Roberts
Credit: NSF Collection
John Roberts with his students at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
Credit: Caltech
H. Guyford Stever in 1972.
Credit: NSF Collection
Molecular biologist and science advocate Maxine F. Singer.
Credit: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Maxine Singer Papers
Astronomer Vera Rubin in 1974, with her "measuring engine" used to examine photographic plates.
Credit: Courtesy of Carnegie Institution of Washington
George Whitesides, University Professor at Harvard University in June 2004.
Credit: Stephanie Mitchell, staff photographer, Harvard University News Office
George Whitesides, blowing bubbles in 1999, with then-NSF Director Rita Colwell (far right).
Credit: Christy Bowe
William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University in October 2008.
Credit: Stephanie Mitchell, staff photographer, Harvard University News Office
Karen K. Uhlenbeck in Berkeley, Calif., in 1979.
Credit: George M. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley
Edward Witten receiving the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush.
Credit: NSF Collection
Jan D. Achenbach with President George W. Bush.
Credit: Ryan K. Morris, National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
Peter B. Dervan
Credit: Lance Hayashida, Caltech
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove with President George W. Bush.
Credit: Christy Bowe-ImageCatcher News for the National Science Foundation
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Mostafa A. El-Sayed at the 2007 National Medal of Science White House ceremony.
Credit: Christy Bowe-ImageCatcher News for the National Science Foundation
Charles P. Slichter
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Francis S. Collins with President Barack Obama at the National Medal of Science awards ceremony at the White House in October 2009.
Credit: Ryan K Morris, National Science & Technology Medals Foundation
Warren M. Washington, an internationally recognized expert on atmospheric science and climate research.
Credit: UCAR
Jacqueline Barton with her husband, Peter Dervan, who is also a Medal of Science awardee.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer for the National Science Foundation
California Institute of Technology (CalTech) chemistry and chemical engineering professor Jacqueline K. Barton.
Credit: Lance Hayashida, Caltech
Peter Stang, distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of Utah.
Credit: Lawrence Boye, University of Utah
Richard A. Tapia after receiving a 2010 National Medal of Science.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer for the National Science Foundation
Table full of National Medals
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer for the National Science Foundation
The 1979 National Medal of Science reception in the Jefferson Room of the State Department. Pictured left to right are NSF Laureate Richard
Feynman his daughter Michelle, wife Gweneth and son Carl.
Credit: NSF Collection
The 1979 National Medal of Science reception in the Jefferson Room of the State Department. Pictured are NMS Laureate Simon Ramo and
his wife Virginia with an unidentified guest.
Credit: NSF Collection
President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with Anne Anastasi during the ceremony to present the National medal of Science
in the Rose Garden of the White House.
Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Vice President Al Gore with 1994 National Medal of Science awardees Robert Merton, George S. Hammond, Frank Press,
Thomas Elsner, John Cocke, Elizabeth Neufeld, Albert Overhauser and Ray Clough.
The awards ceremony was held at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium on Dec. 19, 1994.
Credit: NSF Collection
National Medal of Science breakfast reception, July 26, 1996, at the National Science Foundation. Pictured left to right are Cathleen Morawetz
(NMS committee member and 1998 NMS Laureate), Anne Peterson (NSF deputy director), Marta Cehelsky (National Science Board executive officer), Grace
Broecker (wife of 1996 NMS Laureate Wallace S. Broecker) and Vera Rubin (NMS committee member and 1993 NMS Laureate).
Credit: NSF Collection
“The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band plays in the White House foyer during the 1999 National Medal of Science
and Technology Awards ceremony (March 2000).
Credit: © Christy Bowe
The 1999 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology (and Innovation was added in 2007) awards reception and dinner
at the International Trade Center, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2000.
Credit: © Christy Bowe
The 1999 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology awards reception and dinner at the International Trade Center,
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2000. Pictured are NMS Laureates, students from Benjamin Banneker Academic High School and NSF Director Rita Colwell.
Front row, L-R: Three Benjamin Banneker High School students, NSF Director Rita Colwell, student, NMS Laureate Susan Solomon, student
Second row, L-R: Two students, NMS Laureates Kenneth Stevens, Jared Diamond, and John Ross, student, NMS Laureates David Baltimore, and Leo Kadanoff
Third row, L-R: student, Felix Browder, Stuart Rice, Lynn Margulis, two students, James Cronin, Robert Solow, student, Ronal Coifman
Credit: © Christy Bowe
NMS Laureate Mostafa El-Sayed and a student from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology at the 2007 National Medal of
Science gala held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., Sept. 28, 2008.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
Berni Alder, a 2008 National Medal of Science Laureate, and his family at the White House, Oct. 7, 2009.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
Shu Chien, a 2010 National Medal of Science Laureate, and his family at the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation gala, Oct. 21, 2011.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
The 2009 National Medal of Science Laureates prepare to enter the East Room of the White House to receive their medals on Nov. 17, 2010.
In line are Yakir Aharonov, Stephen Benkovic, Marye Anne Fox, Susan Lindquist and David Mumford.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
NSF Deputy Director Cora Marrett (third from right) with 2010 National Medal of Science awardees Jackie Barton, Ralph Brinster,
Shu Chien, Rudolf Jaenisch, Richard Tapia and Srinivasa Varadhan at the National Science Foundation, Oct. 20, 2011.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
President Barack Obama speaks during the 2010 National Medal of Science (NMS) award ceremony in the East Room of the White House,
Oct. 20, 2011. Pictured from the left are NMS awardees Jackie Barton, Ralph Brinster, Shu Chien, Rudolf Jaenisch, Richard Tapia and
Srinivasa Varadhan. To the right of the president are the 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation awardees.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
National Medal of Science 2011 awardees (left to right) Sidney Drell, Leroy Hood, Sandra Faber, Fred Hawthorne, Jim Gates, Solomon
Golomb and John Goodenough at the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation gala at the Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C., Feb 1, 2013.
Credit: Sandy Schaeffer to NSF
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