2013 Awards Recipients
The Academy has selected 18 researchers to receive awards for their outstanding scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. Read More »
Awards by Field
Behavioral and Social Sciences
- NAS Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- NAS Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Troland Research Awards
Biology and Medicine
- Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
- Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal
- Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
- NAS Award in Molecular Biology
- NAS Award in the Neurosciences
- Pradel Research Award
- Richard Lounsbery Award
- Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Alexander Agassiz Medal
- Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship
- Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
- G. K. Warren Prize
- Mary Clark Thompson Medal
- NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences
Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Gibbs Brothers Medal
- J. C. Hunsaker Award in Aeronautical Engineering
- NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
- Comstock Prize in Physics
- Henry Draper Medal
- J. Lawrence Smith Medal
- James Craig Watson Medal
- NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
- NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society
- NAS Award in Mathematics
- William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research (formerly the NAS Award for Initiatives in Research)
General
- Public Welfare Medal
- John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (field rotates among the physical, biological, and social sciences)
- NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (field rotates among the physical, biological, and social sciences)


