The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...
and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world.
[AAAD Awards – AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility]
AAAS webpage. According to the AAAS, exemplary actions include "acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates."
History
The establishment of this new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was announced by AAAS executive officer William D. Carey on 23 October 1980. The award, presented for the first time at the 1982 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, consisted of a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000.
Recipients
* 1982 -
Paul Berg,
Maxine Singer,
Norton Zinder,
Morris H. Baslow
* 1983 -
Anatoly Koryagin,
Jose Westerkamp
* 1985 -
Werner A. Baum
* 1986 -
Colegio Medico de Chile,
Victor Paschkis
* 1987 -
Stanley L. Weinberg,
Norman D. Newell,
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco José Ayala Pereda (March 12, 1934 – March 3, 2023) was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Davis.
Ayal ...
* 1988 -
Richard L. Garwin,
Roger M. Boisjoly
* 1989 -
Robert L. Sprague,
Natural Resources Defense Council
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* 1990 -
Matthew S. Meselson
* 1991 -
Adrian R. Morrison
* 1992 -
Inez Austin
* 1993 -
Daniel L. Albritton,
Robert T. Watson
* 1994 -
June E. Osborn,
Mathilde Krim
* 1995 -
Vil Mirzayanov
* 1996 -
Daniel Callahan
* 1997 -
Salim Kheirbek
* 1998 -
JoAnn Burkholder
* 1999 -
Joel L. Lebowitz
* 2000 -
Alexander Nikitin
* 2001 -
Howard K. Schachman
* 2002 -
L. Dennis Smith
* 2003 -
Walter Reich
* 2004 -
rDNA Advisory Committee
* 2005 -
David Michaels
* 2006 -
Eugenie Scott, Dover High School Science Department, and
R. Wesley McCoy
* 2007 -
James Hansen
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* 2008 -
Drummond Rennie
* 2009 -
Nancy Olivieri
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* 2010 -
Elizabeth Loftus
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* 2011 -
J. David Jentsch,
Edythe D. London, and
Dario Ringach
* 2012 -
Kiyoshi Kurokawa
* 2013 -
Hoosen Coovadia
* 2014 -
Omid Kokabee
* 2015 -
Jean Maria Arrigo
* 2016 -
Kurt Gottfried
* 2017 - Award date adjusted – see 2018
* 2018 -
Mark Edwards
* 2019 -
Channa Jayasumana,
Sarath Gunatilake
* 2020 -
Erin Kimmerle
* 2021 -
Ricardo Galvão
* 2022 -
Ronald W. Jones
* 2023 -
Peter Hotez
See also
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AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy
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AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
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AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
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Newcomb Cleveland Prize The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is annually awarded to author(s) of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of ''Science
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References
External links
Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility – AAAS
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Awards established in 1982
Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
1982 establishments in the United States