Alan T. Waterman Award
The Alan T. Waterman Award is a National Science Foundation award for early career researchers. It is awarded annually and the winner receives $ 1 million for research at an institution of their choice over five years. It was first awarded in 1975 and is named after the first NSF director, Alan T. Waterman .
The awardee must be a US citizen or permanent resident in the US, be under 36 years of age, and have received a doctorate no more than 7 years ago.
Award winners
- 1976 Charles Fefferman , mathematics
- 1977 J. William Schopf , paleontology
- 1978 Richard A. Muller , Astrophysics, Physics
- 1979 William Thurston , Mathematics
- 1980 Roy Schwitters , physics
- 1981 W. Clark Still , Organic Chemistry
- 1982 Richard Axel , genetic engineering
- 1983 Corey S. Goodman , Neurobiology
- 1984 Harvey Friedman , Mathematical Logic
- 1985 Jacqueline Barton , Bioorganic Chemistry
- 1986 Edward Witten , physics
- 1987 Lawrence H. Summers , Economics
- 1988 Peter G. Schultz , chemistry
- 1989 Richard H. Scheller , genetic engineering
- 1990 Mark E. Davis , chemistry
- 1991 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Computer Science (Computational Geometry)
- 1992 Shrinivas Kulkarni , astrophysics
- 1993 Deborah L. Penry , Chemistry, Marine Biology
- 1994 Gang Tian , Mathematics
- 1995 Matthew PA Fisher , Physics
- 1996 Robert M. Waymouth , Chemistry
- 1997 Eric Allin Cornell , Physics
- 1998 Christopher C. Cummins , chemistry
- 1999 Chaitan Khosla , chemistry
- 2000 Jennifer A. Doudna , biochemistry
- 2001 Vahid Tarokh , Broadband Networks
- 2002 Erich Jarvis , Neuroscience
- 2003 Angelika Amon , molecular biology
- 2004 Kristi Anseth , bioengineering
- 2005 Dalton Conley , Sociology
- 2006 Emmanuel Candès , Mathematics
- 2007 Peidong Yang , nanotechnology
- 2008 Terence Tao , mathematics
- 2009 David Charbonneau , Astrophysics (Exoplanets)
- 2010 Subhash Khot , computer science
- 2011 Casey W. Dunn , evolutionary biologist
- 2012 Robert Wood , Robotics, Scott Aaronson , Computer Limits
- 2013 Mung Chiang , electrical engineering, WLAN
- 2014 Feng Zhang , genetic engineering
- 2015 Andrea Alù , Metamaterials
- 2016 Mircea Dincă , microporous materials
- 2017 Baratunde A. Cola , Nanotechnology Engineering, John V. Pardon , Mathematics
- 2018 Kristina R. Olson , Developmental Psychology
- 2019 Jennifer Dionne , Materials Science, Mark Braverman , Computer Science
- 2020 Emily Balskus , Biochemistry, John O. Dabiri , Fluid Mechanics