• The Public Welfare Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of distinguished contributions in the application of science...
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    Academy of Sciences awarded Tyson the Public Welfare Medal in 2015 for his "extraordinary role in exciting the public about the wonders of science". Tyson...
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    honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction...
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  • to advance science. For his work on maize, Shull was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1948. He was also elected...
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    Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, its highest award. In 1979 Green and his wife were awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the...
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    York's Gold Medal Award, "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National...
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    Maxine Singer (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    receive the Vannevar Bush Award, in 1999. In 2007, she was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Singer made important contributions...
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    National Academy of Sciences, from which he was awarded the 2018 Public Welfare Medal. In 2020, he was awarded the million-dollar Berggruen Prize. 1993:...
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    science and the national welfare during the years he served as a Congressman," Daddario was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy...
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    years he was chairman of the board. In 1933, he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. His son, Alexander Graham...
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    Medalists". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 November 2023. "Public Welfare Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 November 2023. "2012...
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    from August 1, 1955 to August 31, 1968. In 1962 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member....
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    1916 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, which also gave him the Marcellus Hartley Medal. He was also one of the...
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    Isidor Isaac Rabi (category Medal for Merit recipients)
    Award from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1985, the Golden Plate Award...
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    science communication. He was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal in 2016 "for his extraordinary application of the skills honed as...
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    awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1912. In 1917 Stratton was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of...
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    Donald Henderson (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    Practice, and Science). 1975 – George McDonald Medal, London School of Tropical Medicine 1978 – Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences 1985 – Albert...
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    spoke. 1939: the National Academy of Sciences awarded Hoover its Public Welfare Medal. 1950: King George VI of the United Kingdom appointed Hoover Honorary...
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    Council for Canada. 2003: Public Welfare Medal from the US National Academy of Sciences: First non-US citizen to receive the medal, 2007 2002:Jack P. Blaney...
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    first Cornelius Amory Pugsley Gold Medal Award In 1930, Mather was posthumously awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences...
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  • David A. Hamburg (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    was awarded the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, its most prestigious award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996...
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    Association 2021: Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences 2021: Dan David Prize, Dan David Foundation, Israel 2021: President's Medal, The George...
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    Alan Tower Waterman (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Waterman was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1960. He served as director...
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    John W. Gardner (category United States Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare)
    Berkeley. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1966 Gardner was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences...
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    Philip Abelson (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    Distinguished Civilian Service Medal and the Waldo E. Smith Medal in 1988. In 1992 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal, the National Academy of Sciences's...
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    front page of The New York Times. In 1951 Lilienthal was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was also an elected...
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    Victor Weisskopf (category Albert Einstein Medal recipients)
    Planck Medal in 1956 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, the National Medal of Science (1980), the Wolf Prize (1981) and the Public Welfare Medal from...
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    William C. Gorgas (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army))
    Gorgas and George Washington Goethals were awarded the inaugural Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Gorgas retired from the Army...
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    in Public Policy (2001) Member of the American Philosophical Society (2015) Lawrence S. Huntington Environmental Prize (2017) Public Welfare Medal from...
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    George Washington Goethals (category Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal)
    Goethals and William Crawford Gorgas were awarded the inaugural Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Also, Congress awarded Goethals...
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