The Arthur S. Flemming Award is an award given annually to employees of the

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. More than 500 individuals have received the award since it was created in 1948. The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration of The George Washington University administers the award. A nomination requires the person to be a federal employee for at least three years and for less than fifteen years. Every year twelve awards are given in five different categories: Leadership and/or Management, Legal Achievement,

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, Clinical Trials and

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, Applied Science and

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, and

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. Federal Agencies are encouraged to nominate outstanding public servants who meet the nomination requirements. Previously nominated individuals include such noted public servants as Gretchen Campbell for pioneering accomplishments in the emerging field of

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; and Fern Hunt recognized for a sustained record of fundamental contributions to

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, stochastic modelling, and other fields. The awards are given to the annual winners at the

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through its

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, which since 1997 has worked in partnership with the Arthur S. Flemming Awards Commission.

Noted recipients

''(Non exhaustive list)'' * Jean Apgar * Neil Armstrong * David A. Bray *

Samuel Broder Samuel Broder spent his childhood in Poland, in a group of Jewish guerrillas threatened by the Nazis. He emigrated to the United States with a group of Polish survivors and settled with his parents in an industrial neighborhood in Detroit, where ...

* Gretchen Campbell * George R. Carruthers *

John Chancellor John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in TV news. He served as anchor of the ''NBC Nightly News'' from 1970 to 1982 and continu ...

* Francis S. Collins * Sen.

Elizabeth Dole Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Dole (née Hanford; born July 29, 1936)Mary Ella Cathey Hanford, "Asbury and Hanford Families: Newly Discovered Genealogical Information" ''The Historical Trail'' 33 (1996), pp. 44–45, 49. is an American attorn ...

* Anthony Fauci * Deborah S. Jin *

Robert Gates Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American intelligence analyst and university president who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by president George W. Bush a ...

Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Education & career ...

* Bruce Herschensohn * Ivy Hooks * Robert Hormats * Fern Hunt *

Sherwood B. Idso Sherwood B. Idso (born June 12, 1942) is the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. Previously he was a Research Physicist with the U.S. Department of A ...

* George Khoury *

Kent Kresa Kent Kresa (born March 24, 1938) is an American businessman. Formerly, he was Chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman, as well as Chairman of General Motors and has worked with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Lincoln Lab ...

*Rep.

Howard Mosby Howard Mosby (born June 20, 1961) is an American politician from Georgia. Mosby is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 90. Early life and education Mosby was born in Atlanta to Gwendolyn Mizell Mosby, a retired Bu ...

* Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan * Elaine Surick Oran *

Christa Peters-Lidard Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation. Early life Peters-Lidard grew up in Chesterfield ...

William Daniel Phillips William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Biography Phillips was born to William Cornelius Phillips of Juniata, Pennsylvan ...

Paul Volcker Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended th ...

, Jr. * Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.

References

{{reflist https://tspppa.gwu.edu/arthur-s-flemming-awards
https://tspppa.gwu.edu/history-arthur-s-flemming-awards

External links

Arthur S. Flemming Awards
American awards 1948 establishments in the United States