The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world. According to the AAAS, exemplary actions include "acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates."
History The establishment of this new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was announced by AAAS executive officer William D. Carey on 23 October 1980. The award, presented for the first time at the 1982 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, consisted of a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000.
Recipients 1982 - Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Norton Zinder, Morris H. Baslow 1983 - Anatoly Koryagin, Jose Westerkamp 1985 - Werner A. Baum 1986 - Colegio Medico de Chile, Victor Paschkis 1987 - Stanley L. Weinberg, Norman D. Newell, Francisco J. Ayala 1988 - Richard L. Garwin, Roger M. Boisjoly 1989 - Robert L. Sprague, Natural Resources Defense Council 1990 - Matthew S. Meselson 1991 - Adrian R. Morrison 1992 - Inez Austin 1993 - Daniel L. Albritton, Robert T. Watson 1994 - June E. Osborn, Mathilde Krim 1995 - Vil Mirzayanov 1996 - Daniel Callahan 1997 - Salim Kheirbek 1998 - JoAnn Burkholder 1999 - Joel L. Lebowitz 2000 - Alexander Nikitin 2001 - Howard K. Schachman 2002 - L. Dennis Smith 2003 - Walter Reich 2004 - rDNA Advisory Committee 2005 - David Michaels 2006 - Eugenie Scott, Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy 2007 - James Hansen 2008 - Drummond Rennie 2009 - Nancy Olivieri 2010 - Elizabeth Loftus 2011 - J. David Jentsch, Edythe D. London, and Dario Ringach 2012 - Kiyoshi Kurokawa 2013 - Hoosen Coovadia 2014 - Omid Kokabee 2015 - Jean Maria Arrigo 2016 - Kurt Gottfried 2017 - Award date adjusted – see 2018 2018 - Mark Edwards 2019 - Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake 2020 - Erin Kimmerle 2021 - Ricardo Galvão 2022 - Ronald W. Jones 2023 - Peter Hotez 2024 - Eric Stover 2025 - Encieh Erfani 2026 - Morteza Mahmoudi
See also AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research Newcomb Cleveland Prize
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External links Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility – AAAS