The Dickson Prize in Medicine and the Dickson Prize in Science were both established in 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fischer Dickson.

Dickson Prize in Medicine

The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the

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and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progressive contributions" to medicine. The award includes $50,000, a bronze medal, and the Dickson Prize Lecture. Receiving the Dickson Prize in Medicine is strongly correlated with receiving the

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and the

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Recipients

Source
University of Pittsburgh
* 1971 Earl W. Sutherland Jr. * 1972 Solomon A. Berson and Rosalyn S. Yalow * 1973 John H. Gibbon Jr. * 1974 Stephen W. Kuffler * 1975 Elizabeth F. Neufeld * 1976 Frank J. Dixon * 1977

Roger Guillemin Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924) is a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year ...

* 1978

Paul Greengard Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for ...

* 1979 Bert W. O'Malley * 1980 David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel * 1981

Philip Leder Philip Leder (November 19, 1934 – February 2, 2020) was an American geneticist. Early life and education Leder was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical Sc ...

* 1982 Francis H. Ruddle * 1983 Eric R. Kandel * 1984 Solomon H. Snyder * 1985 Robert C. Gallo * 1986

J. Michael Bishop John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize. He serves as an activ ...

* 1987 Elvin A. Kabat * 1988 Leroy E. Hood * 1989

Bernard Moss Bernard Moss (born July 26, 1937 in Brooklyn) is a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the United States National Institutes of Health. He is the Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Viral Diseases and of ...

* 1990

Ernst Knobil Ernst Knobil (September 20, 1926 – April 13, 2000) was a scientist known for his pioneering research in endocrinology. His discoveries were important for the field of reproductive endocrinology, the development of hormonal contraceptives, and ...

* 1991

Phillip A. Sharp Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryo ...

* 1992

Francis Sellers Collins Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institutes of Health (N ...

* 1993 Stanley B. Prusiner * 1994

Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. A pi ...

* 1995

Ronald M. Evans Ronald Mark Evans (born April 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Biologist, Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute fo ...

* 1996 Philippa Marrack * 1997 Ed Harlow and Eric Steven Lander * 1998 Richard D. Klausner * 1999 James E. Darnell Jr. * 2000 Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Dickson Prize Lecture, April 13, 2000: "Telomere Capping and Cell Proliferation") * 2001

Robert G. Roeder Robert G. Roeder (born June 3, 1942, in Boonville, Indiana, United States) is an American biochemist. He is known as a pioneer scientist in eukaryotic transcription. He discovered three distinct nuclear RNA polymerases in 1969 and characterize ...

(Dickson Prize Lecture, September 12, 2001: "Regulation of Transcription in Human Cells: Complexities and Challenges") * 2002 C. David Allis (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 18, 2002: "Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails") * 2003 Susan L. Lindquist (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 24, 2003: "Protein Conformation as a Pathway to Understanding Cellular Processes, Disease and Bio-Inspired Materials") * 2004

Elaine Fuchs Elaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, who helped lead the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which ...

(Dickson Prize Lecture, 2004: "Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages") * 2005 Ronald W. Davis (Dickson Prize Lecture, 2005: "New Genomic Technology for Yeast Applied to Clinical Medicine") * 2006

Roger D. Kornberg Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which ...

(Dickson Prize Lecture, October 5, 2006: "Chromatin and Transcription") * 2007 Carol W. Greider (Dickson Prize Lecture, October 11, 2007: "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction") * 2008 Randy W. Schekman (Dickson Prize Lecture, "Dissecting the Secretion Process: From Basic Mechanism to Human Disease") * 2009

Victor Ambros Victor R. Ambros (born 1953, Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Back ...

(Dickson Prize Lecture, "MicroRNAs, from Model Organisms to Human Biology.") * 2010 Stephen J. Elledge * 2011 J. Craig Venter * 2012 Brian J. Druker * 2013 Huda Y. Zoghbi (Dickson Prize Lecture, Thursday, October 3, 2013: "

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and MECP2 Disorders: From the

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to Genes and

Neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developme ...

.") * 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon * 2015

Karl Deisseroth Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technolo ...

* 2016

Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a ...

* 2017 David M. Sabatini * 2018

Bonnie Bassler Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist; the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She h ...

* 2019

Ruslan Medzhitov Ruslan Maksutovich Medzhitov (born March 12, 1966) is a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His research focuses on the analysis of the innate i ...

* 2020 James J. Collins

Dickson Prize in Science

The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon University and recognizes those who "have made the most progress in the scientific field in the United States for the year in question." The award is dated by the year in which it was announced, which is often the year before the lecture occurs.

Recipients

Source
Carnegie Mellon University
* 1971

Richard Bellman Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. He founde ...

* 1972 George Palade and

Keith Roberts Porter Keith Roberts Porter (June 11, 1912 – May 2, 1997) was a Canadian- American cell biologist. He created pioneering biology techniques and research using electron microscopy of cells. Porter also contributed to the development of other experime ...

* 1973 * 1974 Elias J. Corey * 1975 David H. Geiger, civil engineering * 1975 – ''not awarded'' * 1977 – ''not awarded'' * 1978

John H. Sinfelt John H. Sinfelt (February 18, 1931 in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Munson, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania – May 28, 2011 in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American chemical engineer whose research on catalytic reforming was responsible for t ...

* 1979 Seymour Benzer * 1980 – ''not awarded'' * 1981 John Werner Cahn * 1982 – ''not awarded'' * 1983 Harden M. McConnell * 1983–84

Edward Fredkin Edward Fredkin (born October 2, 1934) is a distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and an early pioneer of digital physics. Fredkin's primary contributions include work on reversible computing and cellular automata. ...

* 1986 Norman Davidson * 1987

Benjamin Widom Benjamin Widom (born 13 October 1927) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics. In 1998, Widom was awarded the Boltzmann Medal "for his illumin ...

* 1988

Mitchell Feigenbaum Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. Early life Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pe ...

* 1989 Joan A. Steitz * 1990 Richard E. Dickerson * 1991 F. Sherwood Rowland * 1992

David Botstein David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist serving as the chief scientific officer of Calico. He served as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013, where ...

* 1993

Paul Lauterbur Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poss ...

* 1994

Vera Rubin Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by study ...

* 1995

Raymond Kurzweil Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and e ...

* 1996

Leland Hartwell Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wit ...

* 1997 * 1998

Walter Alvarez Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in ...

* 1999

Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially f ...

, 25th recipient (Dickson Lecture, November 8, 1999, "Quantum Computing") * 2000

Howard Raiffa Howard Raiffa (; January 24, 1924 – July 8, 2016) was an American academic who was the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He w ...

(Dickson Lecture, Tue. April 4, 2000: "Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist" * 2001

Alexander Pines Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945) is an American chemist. He is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berke ...

(Dickson Lecture, April 11, 2001: "Some Magnetic Moments" * 2002

Carver Mead Carver Andress Mead (born May 1, 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), ...

(Dickson Lecture, March 19, 2002: "The Coming Revolution in Photography") * 2003

Robert Langer Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and one of the twelve Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshau ...

(Dickson Lecture, February 26, 2003: "Biomaterials And How They Will Change Our Lives") * 2004

Marc W. Kirschner Marc Wallace Kirschner (born February 28, 1945) is an Americans, American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is known for major discoveries in cell and developmen ...

(Dickson Lecture, March 30, 2004: "Timing the Inner Cell Cycle") * 2005 George Whitesides (Dickson Lecture, March 28, 2005: "Assumptions: If common assumptions about the modern world break down, then what could science and technology make happen?") * 2006

David Haussler David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that d ...

(Dickson Lecture, March 9, 2006: "Ultraconserved elements, living fossil transposons, and rapid bursts of change: reconstructing the uneven evolutionary history of the human genome" * 2007

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books '' The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Priz ...

(Dickson Lecture, March 26, 2007: "Collapse") * 2008

Jean Fréchet Jean M.J. Fréchet (born August 1944) is a French-American chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry, chemically amplified photores ...

* 2009 Richard M. Karp * 2010

Saul Perlmutter Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ...

(Dickson Lecture, March 17, 2010: "Stalking Dark Energy & the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe") * 2011 David A. Tirrell * 2011 Marvin L. Cohen (March 8, 2012: "Einstein, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience & Superconductivity") * 2013 François M. M. Morel (March 12, 2013: "Ocean Acidification: Causes, Time Scales & Consequences") * 2014

(February 3, 2014: "Illuminating the Brain") * 2015 Joseph M. DeSimone (February 16, 2015: "Breakthroughs in Imprint Lithography and 3D Additive Fabrication") * 2016

Judea Pearl Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on beli ...

(February 29, 2016 : "Science, Counterfactuals and Free Will") * 2017 Chad A. Mirkin (February 2, 2017 : "Nanotechnology: Small Things Matter") * 2018

(February 1, 2018: "CRISPR Systems: Nature's Toolkit for Genome Editing") * 2019 Emery N. Brown (January 31, 2019: "The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia") * 2020

Geraldine Richmond Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17, 1953 in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemist and physical chemist who is serving as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the US Department of Energy. Richmond was confirmed to her DOE role by the ...

(February 11, 2020: "Surf, Sink or Swim: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Water Surfaces")

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