List of National Medal of Science laureates

• 1964—Neal E. Miller
• 1986—Herbert A. Simon
• 1987—Anne Anastasi, George Stigler
• 1988—Milton Friedman
• 1990—Leonid Hurwicz, Patrick Suppes
• 1991—George Armitage Miller
• 1992—Eleanor J. Gibson
• 1994—Robert K. Merton
• 1995—Roger Shepard
• 1996—Paul Samuelson
• 1997—William Kaye Estes
• 1998—William Julius Wilson
• 1999—Robert Solow
• 2000—Gary Becker
• 2003—R. Duncan Luce
• 2004—Kenneth Arrow
• 2005—Gordon H. Bower
• 2008—Michael Posner
• 2009—Mortimer Mishkin
• 2011—Anne Treisman
• 2012—Robert Axelrod
• 2014—Albert Bandura
• 2023—Huda Akil, Shelley E. Taylor
• 2025—Larry Martin Bartels

• 1963—C. B. van Niel
• 1964—Theodosius Dobzhansky, Marshall Warren Nirenberg
• 1965—Francis Peyton Rous, George Gaylord Simpson, Donald Van Slyke
• 1966—Edward F. Knipling, Fritz Albert Lipmann, William Cumming Rose, Sewall Wright
• 1967—Kenneth Stewart Cole, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, Alfred Sturtevant
• 1968—Horace Barker, Bernard Beryl Brodie, Detlev Bronk, Jay Laurence Lush, B. F. Skinner{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=328|title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details - NSF - National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov}}
• 1969—Robert Huebner, Ernst Mayr
• 1970—Barbara McClintock, Albert Sabin
• 1973—Daniel I. Arnon, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.
• 1974—Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff, James V. Neel, James A. Shannon
• 1975—Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy, Sterling B. Hendricks, Orville Vogel
• 1976—Roger Guillemin, Keith R. Porter, Efraim Racker, E. O. Wilson
• 1979—Robert H. Burris, Elizabeth C. Crosby, Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa, Earl Reece Stadtman, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Paul Alfred Weiss
• 1981—Philip Handler
• 1982—Seymour Benzer, Glenn W. Burton, Mildred Cohn
• 1983—Howard Bachrach, Paul Berg, Wendell L. Roelofs, Berta Scharrer
• 1986—Stanley Cohen, Donald Henderson, Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, George Emil Palade, Joan A. Steitz
• 1987—Michael DeBakey, Theodor Otto Diener, Harry Eagle, Har Gobind Khorana, Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 1988—Michael Stuart Brown, Stanley Norman Cohen, Joseph L. Goldstein, Maurice Hilleman, Eric Kandel, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
• 1989—Katherine Esau, Viktor Hamburger, Philip Leder, Joshua Lederberg, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Harland G. Wood
• 1990—Baruj Benacerraf, Herbert Boyer, Daniel E. Koshland Jr., Edward B. Lewis, David G. Nathan, E. Donnall Thomas
• 1991—Mary Ellen Avery, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Elvin A. Kabat, Robert Kates, Salvador Luria, Paul Marks, Folke K. Skoog, Paul Zamecnik
• 1992—Maxine Singer, Howard Martin Temin
• 1993—Daniel Nathans, Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
• 1994—Thomas Eisner, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1995—Alexander Rich
• 1996—Ruth Patrick
• 1997—James Watson, Robert Weinberg
• 1998—Bruce Ames, Janet Rowley
• 1999—David Baltimore, Jared Diamond, Lynn Margulis
• 2000—Nancy Coover Andreasen, Peter H. Raven, Carl Woese
• 2001—Francisco J. Ayala, George Bass, Mario Capecchi, Ann Graybiel, Gene Likens, Victor A. McKusick, Harold E. Varmus
• 2002—James E. Darnell, Evelyn M. Witkin
• 2003—J. Michael Bishop, Solomon H. Snyder, Charles Yanofsky
• 2004—Norman Borlaug, Phillip Allen Sharp, Thomas Starzl
• 2005—Anthony Fauci, Torsten Wiesel
• 2006—Rita R. Colwell, Nina Fedoroff, Lubert Stryer
• 2007—Robert Lefkowitz, Bert W. O'Malley
• 2008—Francis Collins, Elaine Fuchs, Craig Venter
• 2009—Susan Lindquist, Stanley B. Prusiner
• 2010—Ralph L. Brinster, Rudolf Jaenisch
• 2011—Lucy Shapiro, Leroy Hood, Sallie W. Chisholm
• 2012—May Berenbaum, Bruce Alberts
• 2013—Rakesh Jain
• 2014—Stanley Falkow, Mary-Claire King, Simon A. Levin
• 2023—Gebisa Ejeta, Eve Marder, Gregory Petsko, Sheldon Weinbaum
• 2025—Bonnie L. Bassler, Angela Marie Belcher, Helen M. Blau, Emery Neal Brown, G. David Tilman, Teresa Kaye Woodruff

• 1964—Roger Adams
• 1982—F. Albert Cotton, Gilbert Stork
• 1983—Roald Hoffmann, George C. Pimentel, Richard Zare
• 1986—Harry B. Gray, Yuan T. Lee, Carl Shipp Marvel, Frank Westheimer
• 1987—William Summer Johnson, Walter H. Stockmayer, Max Tishler
• 1988—William O. Baker, Konrad Emil Bloch, Elias James Corey
• 1989—Richard Barry Bernstein, Melvin Calvin, Rudolph A. Marcus, Harden M. McConnell
• 1990—Elkan Blout, Karl August Folkers, John D. Roberts
• 1991—Ronald Breslow, Gertrude B. Elion, Dudley R. Herschbach, Glenn T. Seaborg
• 1992—Howard Ensign Simmons Jr.
• 1993—Donald J. Cram, Norman Hackerman
• 1994—George S. Hammond
• 1995—Thomas Cech, Isabella Karle
• 1996—Norman Davidson
• 1997—Darleane C. Hoffman, Harold S. Johnston
• 1998—John W. Cahn, George M. Whitesides
• 1999—Stuart A. Rice, John Ross, Susan Solomon
• 2000—John D. Baldeschwieler, Ralph F. Hirschmann
• 2001—Ernest R. Davidson, Gábor A. Somorjai
• 2002—John Isaiah Brauman
• 2004—Stephen J. Lippard
• 2005—Tobin J. Marks
• 2006—Marvin H. Caruthers, Peter Dervan
• 2007—Mostafa El-Sayed
• 2008—Joanna Fowler, JoAnne Stubbe
• 2009—Stephen J. Benkovic, Marye Anne Fox
• 2010—Jacqueline Barton, Peter J. Stang
• 2011—Allen J. Bard, M. Frederick Hawthorne
• 2012—Judith Klinman, Jerrold Meinwald
• 2013—Geraldine L. Richmond
• 2014—Paul Alivisatos
• 2025—R. Lawrence Edwards

• 1962—Theodore von Kármán
• 1963—Vannevar Bush, John R. Pierce
• 1964—Othmar Ammann, Charles Stark Draper
• 1965—Hugh Latimer Dryden, Kelly Johnson, Warren K. Lewis
• 1966—Claude Shannon
• 1967—Edwin H. Land, Igor Sikorsky
• 1968—J. Presper Eckert, Nathan M. Newmark
• 1969—Jack Kilby
• 1970—George Mueller
• 1973—Doc Edgerton, Richard T. Whitcomb
• 1974—Rudolf Kompfner, Ralph Brazelton Peck, Abel Wolman
• 1975—Manson Benedict, Bill Pickering, Frederick Terman, Wernher von Braun
• 1976—Morris Cohen, Peter Carl Goldmark, Erwin Wilhelm Müller
• 1979—Emmett Leith, Raymond D. Mindlin, Robert Noyce, Earl R. Parker, Simon Ramo
• 1982—Ed Heinemann, Donald L. Katz
• 1983—Bill Hewlett, George Low, John G. Trump
• 1986—Hans W. Liepmann, Tung-Yen Lin, Bernard M. Oliver
• 1987—Robert Byron Bird, Harry Bolton Seed, Ernst Weber
• 1988—Daniel C. Drucker, Willis Hawkins, George W. Housner
• 1989—Harry George Drickamer, Herbert E. Grier
• 1990—Mildred Dresselhaus, Nick Holonyak
• 1991—George H. Heilmeier, Luna Leopold, Guyford Stever
• 1992—Calvin Quate, John Roy Whinnery
• 1993—Alfred Y. Cho
• 1994—Ray William Clough
• 1995—Hermann A. Haus
• 1996—James L. Flanagan, C. Kumar N. Patel
• 1998—Eli Ruckenstein
• 1999—Kenneth N. Stevens
• 2000—Yuan-Cheng Fung
• 2001—Andreas Acrivos
• 2002—Leo Beranek
• 2003—John Prausnitz
• 2004—Edwin N. Lightfoot
• 2005—Jan D. Achenbach
• 2006—Robert S. Langer
• 2007—David J. Wineland, Andrew Viterbi
• 2008—Rudolf E. Kálmán
• 2009—Amnon Yariv
• 2010—Shu Chien
• 2011—John B. Goodenough
• 2012—Thomas Kailath
• 2023—Subra Suresh
• 2025—John O. Dabiri

• 1963—Norbert Wiener
• 1964—Solomon Lefschetz, Marston Morse
• 1965—Oscar Zariski
• 1966—John Milnor
• 1967—Paul Cohen
• 1968—Jerzy Neyman
• 1969—William Feller
• 1970—Richard Brauer
• 1973—John Tukey
• 1974—Kurt Gödel
• 1975—John Backus, Shiing-Shen Chern, George Dantzig
• 1976—Kurt Otto Friedrichs, Hassler Whitney
• 1979—Joseph L. Doob, Donald Knuth
• 1982—Marshall H. Stone
• 1983—Herman Goldstine, Isadore Singer
• 1986—Peter Lax, Antoni Zygmund
• 1987—Raoul Bott, Michael Freedman
• 1988—Ralph E. Gomory, Joseph Keller
• 1989—Samuel Karlin, Saunders Mac Lane, Donald C. Spencer
• 1990—George F. Carrier, Stephen Cole Kleene, John McCarthy
• 1991—Alberto Calderón
• 1992—Allen Newell
• 1993—Martin David Kruskal
• 1994—John Cocke
• 1995—Louis Nirenberg
• 1996—Richard M. Karp, Stephen Smale
• 1997—Shing-Tung Yau
• 1998—Cathleen Synge Morawetz
• 1999—Felix Browder, Ronald Coifman
• 2000—John G. Thompson, Karen Uhlenbeck
• 2001—C. R. Rao, Elias M. Stein
• 2002—James Glimm
• 2003—Carl R. de Boor
• 2004—Dennis Sullivan
• 2005—Bradley Efron
• 2006—Hyman Bass
• 2007—Leonard Kleinrock
• 2009—David Mumford
• 2010—Richard A. Tapia, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
• 2011—Solomon W. Golomb, Barry Mazur
• 2012—Alexandre Chorin, posthumous David Blackwell
• 2013—Michael Artin
• 2025—Ingrid Daubechies, Cynthia Dwork

• 1963—Luis Walter Alvarez
• 1964—Julian Schwinger, Harold Urey, Robert Burns Woodward
• 1965—John Bardeen, Peter Debye, Leon M. Lederman, William Walden Rubey
• 1966—Jacob Bjerknes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Henry Eyring, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Vladimir K. Zworykin
• 1967—Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit, Louis Plack Hammett, George Kistiakowsky
• 1968—Paul Doughty Bartlett, Herbert Friedman, Lars Onsager, Eugene Wigner
• 1969—Herbert C. Brown, Pief Panofsky
• 1970—Robert H. Dicke, Allan Sandage, John C. Slater, John Archibald Wheeler, Saul Winstein
• 1973—Carl Djerassi, Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, Vladimir Haensel, Frederick Seitz, Robert R. Wilson
• 1974—Nicolaas Bloembergen, Paul Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Linus Pauling, Kenneth Pitzer
• 1975—Hans Bethe, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, Lewis Hastings Sarett, Edgar Bright Wilson, Chien-Shiung Wu
• 1976—Samuel Goudsmit, Herbert S. Gutowsky, Frederick Rossini, Verner E. Suomi, Henry Taube, George Uhlenbeck
• 1979—Richard Feynman, Herman Francis Mark, Edward Mills Purcell, John H. Sinfelt, Lyman Spitzer, Victor Weisskopf
• 1982—Philip W. Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes
• 1983—Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Goldhaber, Helmut Landsberg, Walter Munk, Frederick Reines, Bruno Rossi, John Robert Schrieffer
• 1986—Solomon J. Buchsbaum, H. Richard Crane, Herman Feshbach, Robert Hofstadter, Yang Chen-Ning
• 1987—Philip Abelson, Walter M. Elsasser, Paul Lauterbur, George Pake, James Van Allen
• 1988—D. Allan Bromley, Paul Ching Wu Chu, Walter Kohn, Norman Ramsey Jr., Jack Steinberger
• 1989—Arnold Beckman, Eugene Parker, Robert P. Sharp, Henry Stommel
• 1990—Allan MacLeod Cormack, Edwin McMillan, Robert Pound, Roger Revelle
• 1991—Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Edward C. Stone, Steven Weinberg
• 1992—Eugene Merle Shoemaker
• 1993—Val Logsdon Fitch, Vera Rubin
• 1994—Albert Overhauser, Frank Press
• 1995—Hans Georg Dehmelt, Peter Goldreich
• 1996—Wallace Smith Broecker
• 1997—Marshall Rosenbluth, Martin Schwarzschild, George Wetherill
• 1998—Don L. Anderson, John N. Bahcall
• 1999—James Cronin, Leo Kadanoff
• 2000—Willis Lamb, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Gilbert F. White
• 2001—Marvin L. Cohen, Raymond Davis Jr., Charles David Keeling
• 2002—Richard Garwin, W. Jason Morgan, Edward Witten
• 2003—Brent Dalrymple, Riccardo Giacconi
• 2004—Robert N. Clayton
• 2005—Ralph Asher Alpher, Lonnie Thompson
• 2006—Daniel Kleppner
• 2007—Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Charles Pence Slichter
• 2008—Berni Alder, James Gunn
• 2009—Yakir Aharonov, Esther M. Conwell, Warren M. Washington
• 2011—Sidney Drell, Sandra Faber, Sylvester James Gates
• 2012—Burton Richter, Sean Solomon
• 2014—Shirley Ann Jackson
• 2023—Barry Barish, Myriam Sarachik
• 2025—Richard B. Alley, Wendy L. Freedman, Keivan G. Stassun

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recipients.cfm National Medal of Science - Recipient Search]
• [https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/results.cfm?action=sort_year&keyword=&state=all&first_name=&last_name=&affiliation=all&discipline=all&award_year=&nobel_disc=all National Medal of Science (1962–2014) - List of all recipients, in alphabetical order]
• [https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/results.jsp?d-6908034-p=1&d-6908034-s=3&d-6908034-o=2 National Medal of Science (1962–2014) - List of all recipients, in chronological order]
• [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/03/president-obama-honors-nation-s-top-scientists-and-innovators National Medals 2014]
• [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/22/president-obama-honor-nations-leading-scientists-and-innovators National Medals 2015]
• [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/19/president-obama-honors-nations-leading-scientists-and-innovators National Medals 2016]

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