The Nevada Medal was established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement in science and engineering", and is presented by the Governor of Nevada.[1] The previous recipients are:
- Verner Suomi
- Dwight Billings
- James A. Van Allen
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Carl Djerassi
- Margaret Bryan Davis
- John N. Bahcall
- Charles Elachi
- Hector F. DeLuca
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Lynn Margulis
- Wallace Broecker
- Harold Mooney
- John H. Seinfeld
- M. Gordon Wolman
- Charles Goldman
- Fakhri A. Bazzaz
- Farouk El-Baz
- Donald Grayson
- Walter Alvarez
- Susan Lindquist
- James E. Hansen
- Francis Collins
- Robert Ballard
- Steven Squyres
- Nina Fedoroff
- Albert Yu-Min Lin
- Christopher McKay
- Missy Cummings
- Marcia McNutt
- Kathryn Sullivan (2020)[2]
References edit
- ^ "About the DRI Nevada Medal". Desert Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^ "2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space". 25 November 2019.