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STS Alumni & Their Honors

Nobel Prize

STS 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

Fields Medal

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

National Medal of Science

STS Year Name Year
1948 Breslow, Ronald 1991
1950 Cohen, Paul J. 1967
1955 Hoffmann, Roald 1983

National Medal of Technology

STS Year Name Year
1965 Kurzweil, Raymond C. 1999

MacArthur Fellowship

STS 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

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

STS Year Name Year
1949 Gilbert, Walter 1979
1956 Hood, Leroy E. 1987

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

STS Year Name Affiliation
1943 Rechtin, Eberhardt Aerospace Corporation
1949 Goldman, Alan J. Johns Hopkins University
1952  Armstrong, John A. IBM Corporation
1964  Sproull, Robert F. Sun Microsystems
1974  Leighton, Frank T. Mass. Institute of Technology

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

STS Year Name Affiliation
1943 Rosenblatt, Murray University of California
1944 Kraichnan, Robert Harry  
1945 Clark, George W. Mass. 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 Institute of Health
1947 Felsenfeld, Gary National Institute 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. Calif. Institute of Technology
1955 Hoffmann, Roald Cornell University
1956 Chilton, Mary Dell CIBA-GEIGY
1956 Hood, Leroy Calif. 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
1967 Wilczek, Frank A. Mass. Institute of Technology
1974 Lander, Eric The Broad Institute

Sloan Research Fellows

Fifty-six former Science Talent Search (STS) Finalists have been named Sloan Research Fellows.

Searching for Science Talent Search Alumni

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