Awards
The Academy gives a number of different awards:
- General
- John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
- NAS Award for Initiatives in Research
- NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
- Public Welfare Medal
- Astronomy/Astrophysics
- Henry Draper Medal
- J. Lawrence Smith Medal
- James Craig Watson Medal
- Behavioral/Social Sciences
- NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Troland Research Awards
- Biology and Medicine
- Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
- Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
- Richard Lounsbery Award
- NAS Award in Molecular Biology
- NAS Award in the Neurosciences
- Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal
- Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
- Chemistry
- NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
- NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Alexander Agassiz Medal
- Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship
- Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
- Mary Clark Thompson Medal
- Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
- G. K. Warren Prize
- Engineering and Applied Sciences
- NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering - aeronautical engineering
- Gibbs Brothers Medal - naval architecture, marine engineering
- NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science
- Mathematics and Computer Science
- NAS Award in Mathematics
- Physics
- Arctowski Medal
- Comstock Prize in Physics
- Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
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