President Joe Biden revealed the latest honorees of the recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The laureates have been honored throughout a prestigious ceremony at the White House final Friday. These esteemed awards have fun groundbreaking contributions which have superior data, pushed progress and tackled the world’s most crucial wants whereas underscoring the very important position of analysis and creativity in fostering a brighter, extra sustainable future.
The National Medal of Science, established in 1959 by the U.S. National Science Foundation, acknowledges excellent contributions throughout scientific disciplines, celebrating groundbreaking discoveries and improvements that sort out humanity’s most pressing wants. Similarly, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, created in 1980 by the U.S. Congress, honors visionaries whose developments have revolutionized industries, pushed financial development and strengthened the nation’s world competitiveness.
“As we celebrate these extraordinary recipients, we are reminded of the boundless potential of science and technology to transform lives and shape the future,” stated NSF Chief Science Officer Karen Marrongelle. “NSF is proud to have supported many of these trailblazers whose groundbreaking work demonstrates the power of curiosity, creativity and collaboration in driving innovation and addressing humanity’s greatest challenges.”
Among this 12 months’s honorees are a number of distinguished people with ties to NSF. John Dabiri, Feng Zhang and Jennifer Doudna are former recipients of NSF’s prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award, which acknowledges distinctive early-career scientists and engineers for his or her transformative contributions. Keivan Stassun, a present member of the National Science Board and a former member of NSF’s Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering, has been a pacesetter in advancing range, fairness and inclusion in STEM.
These honorees exemplify NSF’s enduring position in fostering groundbreaking analysis, nurturing expertise and driving innovation throughout the scientific and engineering enterprise. Among the recipients, NSF has funded, in some unspecified time in the future of their careers, all 14 recipients of the National Medal of Science and eight of the 9 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
The recipients are:
National Medal of Science
- Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State University.
- Larry Martin Bartels, Vanderbilt University.
- Bonnie L. Bassler, Princeton University.
- Angela Marie Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Helen M. Blau, Stanford University.
- Emery Neal Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University.
- Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University.
- R. Lawrence Edwards, University of Minnesota.
- Wendy L. Freedman, The University of Chicago.
- G. David Tilman, University of Minnesota.
- Teresa Kaye Woodruff, Michigan State University.
- John O. Dabiri, California Institute of Technology.
- Keivan G. Stassun, Vanderbilt University.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- Martin Cooper.
- Eric Fossum, Dartmouth University.
- Victor B. Lawrence.
- Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley.
- Kristina M. Johnson.
- Feng Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- David R. Walt, Harvard University.
- Paul G. Yock, Stanford University.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation Organization Recipients