Alumni Honors

With considerable precision, Science Talent Search^® program judges have identified leading research scientists, mathematicians, and physicians while they were still in high school, years before their professional careers began. The result? More than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors have been won by alumni of this program.

Award	Description
The Nobel Prize	7 Finalists have won the Nobel Prize.
Fields Medal	2 have earned the Fields Medal.
National Medal of Science	5 have been awarded National Medals of Science.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation	2 have been awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
MacArthur Foundation Fellowships	11 have won MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award	3 have been awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
National Academy of Engineering	Five have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
National Academy of Sciences	30 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Sloan Research Fellow	56 have been named Sloan Research Fellows.

Nobel Prize:

Program Year	Name	Honor, Year
1944	Mottelson, Ben R.	Physics, 1975
1947	Cooper, Leon N.	Physics, 1972
1949	Gilbert, Walter	Chemistry, 1980
1950	Glashow, Sheldon L.	Physics, 1979
1955	Hoffman, Roald	Chemistry, 1981
1967	Wilczek, Frank	Physics, 2004
1968	Tsien, Roger	Chemistry, 2008

Fields Medal:

Program Year	Name	Honor, Year
1950	Cohen, Paul J.	Mathematics, 1966
1953	Mumford, David B.	Mathematics, 1974

National Medal of Science:

Program Year	Name	Year
1948	Breslow, Ronald	1991
1950	Cohen, Paul J.	1967
1953	Mumford, David	2010
1955	Hoffmann, Roald	1983
1956	Hood, Leroy	2012

National Medal of Technology and Innovation:

program Year	Name	Year
1965	Kurzweil, Raymond C.	1999
1954	Hoff, Marcian E. "Ted"	2010

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship:

program Year	Name	Year
1948	Berry, Richard S.	1983
1958	Richardson, Jane S.	1985
1960	Winfree, Arthur T.	1984
1961	Axelrod, Robert	1987
1964	Lovins, Amory B.	1993
1967	Wilczek, Frank	1982
1972	Coleman, Robert	1987
1974	Lander, Eric	1987
1953	Mumford, David B.	1987
1984	Schrag, Daniel P.	2000
1990	Agrawala, Maneesh	2009

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award:

program Year	Name	Year
1949	Gilbert, Walter	1979
1956	Hood, Leroy E.	1987
1976	Vale, Ronald	2012

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering:

program Year	Name	Honor
1943	Rechtin, Eberhardt	Aerospace Corporation
1949	Goldman, Alan J.	Johns Hopkins University
1952	Armstrong, John A.	IBM Corporation
1956	Hood, Leroy E.	Institute for Systems Biology
1961	Lesk, Michael E.	Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
1964	Sproull, Robert F.	Sun Microsystems
1965	Kurzweil, Raymond	Kurzweil Technologies
1974	Kroo, Ilan	Stanford University
1974	Leighton, F. Thomson	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978	Drela, Mark	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1989	Jackson, Andrew

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences:

Program Year	Name	University
1943	Rosenblatt, Murray	University of California
1944	Kraichnan, Robert Harry
1945	Clark, George W.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1945	Sessler, Andrew M.	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1945	Streitwieser, Andrew	Harvard University
1945	Tinkham, Michael	Harvard University
1947	Cooper, Leon N.	Brown University
1947	Felsenfeld, Gary	National Institutes of Health
1947	Karplus, Martin	Harvard University
1948	Berry, R. Stephen	University of Chicago
1948	Breslow, Ronald	Columbia University
1948	Martin, Paul C.	Harvard University
1949	Gilbert, Walter	Harvard University
1950	Cohen, Paul J.	Stanford University
1950	Glashow, Sheldon Lee	Harvard University
1950	Sternberg, Saul	University of Pennsylvania
1952	Richards, Paul L.	University of California
1953	Mumford, David B.	Harvard University
1954	Crothers, Donald M.	Yale University
1954	Davidson, Eric H.	California Institute of Technology
1955	Hoffmann, Roald	Cornell University
1956	Chilton, Mary Dell	CIBA-GEIGY
1956	Hood, Leroy	California Institute of Technology
1956	Solovay, Robert M.	University of California
1957	Adler, Stephen L.	Institute for Advanced Study
1958	Halperin, Bertrand I.	Harvard University
1958	Richardson, Jane S.	Duke University
1960	Hochster, Melvin	University of Michigan
1960	Mather, John N.	Princeton University
1961	Axelrod, Robert	University of Michigan
1961	Hubbell, Wayne	University of California, Los Angeles
1963	Vaupel, James W.	Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research
1964	Solomon, Edward I.	Stanford University
1967	Lagarias, J. Clark	University of California, Davis
1967	Wilczek, Frank A.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1969	Cava, Robert J.	Princeton University
1970	Rees, Douglas C.	California Institute of Technology
1974	Lander, Eric	The Broad Institute
1974	Leighton, F. Thomson	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1976	Vale, Ronald	University of California, San Francisco
1976	Yancopoulos, George	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
1980	Randall, Lisa J.	Harvard University

Sloan Research Fellows:

Fifty-six program alumni have been named Sloan Research Fellows.

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