[Asis-l] National Medal of Science -- Nominiations due June 30, 2003
Richard Hill
rhill at asis.org
Tue May 6 08:46:44 EDT 2003
[Forwarded message from Maria Zemanko of the National Science Foundation.
Dick Hill]
I would like to encourage you to nominate a member of the ASIST community
for the 2004 National Medal of Science
(http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards/nms/medal.htm), the Nation's highest honor
for scientists and engineers presented annually by the President of the
United States.
The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959
as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special
recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the
physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences."
Since its establishment, the Medal has been awarded to 401 distinguished
scientists and engineers. Naturally, "computer science" was not an
established field at that time, and only recently "computer science" was
added to "Mathematics". I am attaching the list of the Medal recipients in
"Mathemantics & Computer Science" (see below or the attached spreadsheet).
However, so far there was no awardee in the area of "Information Science and
Technology".
I would like to quote Dr. Rita R. Colwell, the National Science Foundation
Director:
"There are numerous younger American scientists and engineers, many of them
women and minorities, now reaching the point where their contributions are
worthy of recognition.
Your efforts to identify worthy nominees for the Medal in this public
recognition of outstanding
contributions are critical to its success. On behalf of the President's
Committee on the National Medal of
Science, I want to thank you in advance for those efforts."
I hope you will take the time and effort to nominate worthy candidates from
your ranks. We are living in the "Information Age", so it would be befitting
to honor the researchers how have helped us to get here!
The nomination procedures and guidelines, as well as instructions for
submitting an electronic nomination, renomination, or support letter, are
detailed in the Program Annoucement:
The National Medal of Science 2004
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03040
Questions concerning the procedures or requests for additional nomination
forms should be directed to the Committee's Program Manager, Mrs. Susan E.
Fannoney at 703-292-8096, or <nms at nsf.gov>.
Subtype : National Science Board
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National Medal of Science Recipients
Mathematics & Computer Science
Name Affiliation Award Year
Rao, Calyampudi R. Pennsylvania State University 2001
Stein, Elias M. Princeton University 2001
Thompson, John Griggs University of Florida 2000
Uhlenbeck, Karen E. University of Texas at Austin 2000
Browder, Felix E Rutgers University [Math] 1999
Coifman, Ronald R. Yale University 1999
Morawetz, Cathleen Synge Courant Inst of Math Sciences 1998
Yau, Shing-Tung Harvard University 1997
Karp, Richard M. University of Washington 1996
Smale, Stephen Univ of California at Berkeley 1996
Nirenberg, Louis New York University 1995
Cocke, John IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 1994
Kruskal, Martin D. Rutgers University 1993
Newell, Allen Carnegie Mellon University 1992
Calderon, Alberto P. University of Chicago [Math] 1991
Carrier, George F. Harvard University 1990
Kleene, Stephen C. University of Wisconsin 1990
McCarthy, John Stanford University 1990
Karlin, Samuel Stanford University 1989
MacLane, Saunders University of Chicago 1989
Spencer, Donald C. Princeton University 1989
Gomory, Ralph E. IBM Corporation 1988
Keller, Joseph B. Stanford University 1988
Bott, Raoul Harvard University [Math] 1987
Freedman, Michael H. U of California at San Diego 1987
Lax, Peter D. New York University 1986
Zygmund, Antoni University of Chicago 1986
Goldstine, Herman H. Institute for Advanced Study 1983
Singer, Isadore M. Univ of California at Berkeley 1983
Stone, Marshall H. University of Massachusetts 1982
Doob, Joseph L. University of Illinois 1979
Knuth, Donald E. Stanford University 1979
Friedrichs, Kurt Otto New York University 1976
Whitney, Hassler Institute for Advanced Study 1976
Backus, John W. IBM San Jose Research Lab 1975
[Comp Sci]
Chern, Shiing-shen Univ of California at Berkeley 1975
Dantzig, George B. Stanford University 1975
Godel, Kurt Institute for Advanced Study 1974
Tukey, John Wilder Princeton University 1973
Brauer, Richard D. Harvard University 1970
Feller, William Princeton University 1969
Neyman, Jerzy Univ of California at Berkeley 1968
Cohen, Paul J. Stanford University 1967
Milnor, John W. Princeton University 1966
Zariski, Oscar Harvard University 1965
Wiener, Norbert MIT 1963
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