Call for NominationsSource: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,Vol. 95, No. 4 (Feb. 17, 1998), pp. 1351-1355Published by: National Academy of SciencesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44285 .

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* Arctowski Medal (solar physics and solar-terrestrial relationships)

* NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

* NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society

* Comstock Prize in Physics

* Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship

* Gibbs Brothers Medal (naval architecture and marine engineering)

* NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science

* NAS Award for Initiatives in Research (biomedical science)

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of awards-spanning a range of scientific disciplines- Is to be presented in 1999 are described on the follow- nR a copy of the form on page 1355, will be accepted (tact the National Academy of Sciences at 202-334-2444 p://www.nas.edu/nas).

* Richard Lounsbery Award (biology and medicine)

* NAS Award in Molecular Biology

* NAS Public Welfare Medal

* Robertson Memorial Lecture (environmental science)

* NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (economics)

* Mary Clark Thompson Medal (geology and paleontology)

* Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology

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Arctowski Medal Medal and prize of $20,000 plus $60,000 to an institu- tion of the recipient's choice awarded every three years to further research in solar physics and solar-terres- trial relationships. Established by the bequest of Jane Arctowska in honor of her husband, Henryk Arctowski.

Recipients: 1969 Eugene N. Parker

J. Paul Wild 1972 Francis S. Johnson 1975 Jacques M. Beckers 1978 John R. Winckler 1981 Thomas M. Donahue 1984 William E. Gordon 1987 John S. Eddy 1990 Peter A. Sturrock 1993 John A. Simpson 1996 Raymond G. Roble

NAS Award in Chemical Sciences -Supported by the Merck Foundation

Medal and prize of $20,000 awarded annually for innov- ative research in the chemical sciences that, in the broadest sense, contributes to the better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity.

Recipients: 1979 Linus Pauling 1980 Frank H. Westheimer 1981 Bruno H. Zimm 1982 Gilbert Stork 1983 Henry Taube 1985 Richard B. Bernstein 1986 Roald Hoffmann 1987 Herbert C. Brown 1988 Harden M. McConnell 1989 Ronald Breslow 1990 F. Albert Cotton 1991 Richard N. Zare 1992 Donald J. Cram 1993 Richard H. Holm 1994 Koji Nakanishi 1995 Isabella L. Karle 1996 Ahmed H. Zewail 1997 M. Frederick Hawthorne 1998 Allen J. Bard

NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society -Established by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Prize of $20,000 awarded every two years for contribu- tions to chemistry, either in fundamental science or its application, that clearly satisfy a societal need. Given in alternate years to chemists working in industry and to those in academia, government, or nonprofit organi- zations. The 1999 award will be given to an industri- al chemist.

Recipients: 1991 Vladimir Haensel 1993 Harold S. Johnston 1995 P. Roy Vagelos 1997 Ernest L. Eliel

Comstock Prize in Physics Prize of $20,000 awarded approximately every five years to a resident of North America for a recent innovative discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, broadly interpreted. Established through the Cyrus B. Comstock Fund. The first presen- tation was made in 1913.

Recent recipients: 1968 Leon N Cooper

J. Robert Schrieffer 1973 Robert H. Dicke 1978 Raymond Davis, Jr. 1983 Theodor W. Hansch

Peter P. Sorokin 1988 Paul C. W. Chu

Maw-Kuen Wu 1993 Erwin L. Hahn

Charles P. Slichter

Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship Prize of $20,000 awarded approximately every three years to a scientist making new contributions to the physics of the Earth whose four to six lectures would prove a solid, timely, and useful addition to the knowledge and litera- ture in the field. The first presentation was made in 1972. Recent recipients: 1987 Harmon Craig 1990 Ho-Kwang Mao 1993 Hiroo Kanamori 1996 James G. Anderson

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Gibbs Brothers Medal Medal and prize of $5,000 awarded every two years for outstanding contributions in the field of naval archi- tecture and marine engineering. The first presenta- tion was made in 1965.

Recent recipients: 1988 Leslie A. Harlander 1991 Bruce G. Collip 1993 Olin J. Stephens II 1995 Owen H. Oakley 1997 William B. Morgan

NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science -Established by the IBM Corporation in honor of Ralph E. Gomon

Prize of $25,000 awarded every three years for original scientific work of intrinsic scientific importance and with significant, beneficial applications in industry.

Recipients: 1990 Carl Djerassi 1993 Nick Holonyak, Jr. 1996 John H. Sinfelt

NAS Award for Initiatives in Research -Supported by Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in honor of William 0. Baker

Prize of $15,000 awarded annually to recognize innova- tive young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit. The award is to be given to a citizen of the United States, preferably no older than 35 years of age. The 1999 award will be given in biomedical science.

Richard Lounsbery Award Medal and prize of $50,000 awarded annually. Given in alternate years to young American and French scien- tists in recognition of extraordinary scientific achieve- ment in biology and medicine, the award is intended to stimulate research and to encourage reciprocal sci- entific exchanges between the United States and France. A further sum of $20,000 is provided to visit a laboratory or research institution in France (if the recipient is American) or in the United States (if the recipient is French). American recipients are invited to lecture at a scientific meeting of the Academy. The first presentation was made in 1979.

Recent recipients: 1988 Francois Cuzin 1989 Richard Axel 1990 Jean Rosa 1991 Marc W. Kirschner

Harold Weintraub 1992 Philippe Ascher

Henri Korn

1993 Stanley B. Prusiner Bert Vogelstein

1994 Jean-Louis Mandel 1995 Douglas A. Melton 1996 Daniel Louvard

Jacques Pouyssegur 1997 James E. Rothman 1998 Pascale Cossant

NAS Award in Molecular Biology -Supported by the Monsanto Company

Medal and prize of $20,000 awarded annually for recent notable discovery in molecular biology by a young sci- entist who is a citizen of the United States. The first presentation was made in 1961.

Recent recipients: 1980 Phillip A. Sharp 1981 Ronald W. Davis

Gerald R. Fink 1982 Joan A. Steitz 1983 James C. Wang 1984 Geoffrey M. Cooper

Robert A. Weinberg 1985 Gerald M. Rubin

Allan C. Spradling 1986 Robert G. Roeder 1987 Thomas R. Cech 1988 H. Robert Horvitz 1989 Kiyoshi Mizuuchi 1990 Elizabeth H. Blackburn 1991 Steven L. McKnight

Robert Tjian 1992 Bruce S. Baker

Thomas W. Cline 1993 Peter S. Kim 1994 Gerald F. Joyce

Jack W. Szostak 1995 Daniel E. Gottschling 1996 Michael S. Levine 1997 Richard H. Scheller

Thomas C. Sudhof 1998 Philip A. Beachy

NAS Public Welfare Medal Medal awarded annually by the Council of the Academy in recognition of distinguished contributions in the application of science to the public welfare. The award was initially supported by the Marcellus Hartley Fund, and the first presentation was made in 1914.

Recent recipients: 1980 Walter Sullivan 1981 Russell E. Train 1982 Paul G. Rogers 1983 Mina Rees 1984 Theodore Hesburgh

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1985 I. I. Rabi 1986 William D. Carey 1987 Dale E. Corson 1988 John E. Sawyer 1989 David Packard 1990 C. Everett Koop 1991 Victor F. Weisskopf 1992 Philip H. Abelson 1993 Jerome B. Wiesner 1994 Carl E. Sagan 1995 Harold Amos 1996 William T. Golden 1997 George T. Thorn 1998 David A. Hamburg

Robertson Memorial Lecture of the National Academy of Sciences Prize of $7,500 awarded every three years to a distin- guished scientist from anywhere in the world. The recipient is invited to lecture on his or her work and its international aspects. The first presentation was made in 1967. The 1999 award will be given in environ- mental science.

NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing -Established by Annual Reviews, Inc. and the Institute for Scientific Information in honor of J. Murray Luck Prize of $5,000 awarded annually for excellence in sci- entific reviewing published anywhere. The field of the award rotates among the biological, physical, and social sciences; the 1999 award will be given in eco- nomics. The first presentation was made in 1979..

Mary Clark Thompson Medal Medal and prize of $7,500 awarded every three to five years for important contributions to geology and paleontology. The first presentation was made in 1921. Recent recipients: 1948 Frank H. McLearn 1949 Lauge Koch 1952 Lloyd W. Stephenson 1954 Alfred S. Romer 1957 G. Arthur Cooper 1958 Roman Kozlowski 1961 Norman D. Newell 1964 Milton N. Bramlette 1967 Wendell P. Woodring 1970 Raymond C. Moore 1973 Hollis D. Hedberg 1976 James M. Schopf 1982 William A. Berggren 1986 J. William Schopf 1990 Harry B. Whittington 1995 David L. Jones

Troland Research Awards Two awards of $35,000 each, awarded annually to young investigators (age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement and further empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of con- sciousness and the physical world. Funds are to be used by the awardee to support his or her research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology, including, for example, the topics of sensation, percep- tion, motivation, emotion, learning, memory, cogni- tion, language, and action. For both awards, preference will be given to experimental work taking a quantita- tive or other formal approach, including mathematics and explicit algorithms (e.g., computer modeling) or symbolic logics of various types, and/or to experimen- tal research seeking physiological explanations. Recipients: 1984 Edward N. Pugh 1985 Keith D.White 1986 Roger Ratcliff 1987 Laurence T. Maloney

Brian A. Wandell 1988 Eric I. Knudsen 1989 Joan T. Cacioppo 1990 Robert Desimone 1991 Daniel L. Schacter 1992 Martha Farah 1993 Steven Pinker 1994 Donald D. Hoffman

David G. Lavond 1995 Michael S. Fanselow

Robert M. Nosofsky 1996 Joseph E. Steinmetz

Steven G. Yantis 1997 Richard B. Ivry

Keith R. Kluender 1998 Virginia M. Richards

Jeffrey D. Schall

Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology -Supported by the Foundation for Microbiology. Prize of $5,000 awarded biennially for excellence in the field of microbiology. The first presentation was made in 1968.

Recent recipients: 1984 Purnell Choppin 1986 Harland G. Wood 1989 Bernard D. Davis 1991 Melvin 1. Simon 1993 Boris Magasanik 1995 Ralph S. Wolfe 1997 Carl R. Woese

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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

NAME OF AWARD:

The following materials must accompany this form: - a one- to two-page summary of the candidate's achievements - a selected bibliography of no more than twelve items - the candidate's curriculum vitae

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2. ADDITIONAL CANDIDATE(S) FOR JOINT NOMINATION (For each, encl sheet.) NOTE: Joint nominations are discouraged; they are generally considered laboratory-on the work to be recognized by the award:

3. POSITION AND AFFILIATION (include complete mailing address and tele?

4. HOME ADDRESS (include complete mailing address and telephone numbe

PROPOSED CITATION (25-word statement of scientific contribution meriting

NOMINATOR (include name, title, organization, address, and telephone numb(

Nominator's Signature

SUPPORTING LETTERS HAVE BEEN REQUESTED FROM THE FOLLOW

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