Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology

The Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology is a science award given by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States , which recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of microbiology . It is named after the American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) and endowed with US $ 20,000  (as of 2019).

Award winners

• 2019 Sharon R. Long
• 2017 Bernard Roizman
• 2015 Susan Gottesman
• 2013 Jeffrey I. Gordon
• 2011 Carol A. Gross
• 2009 Jonathan Beckwith
• 2007 Richard M. Losick
• 2005 Lucy Shapiro
• 2003 Stanley Falkow
• 2001 Norman R. Pace
• 1999 R. John Collier
• 1997 Carl R. Woese
• 1995 Ralph S. Wolfe
• 1993 Boris Magasanik
• 1991 Melvin I. Simon
• 1989 Bernard D. Davis
• 1986 Harland G. Wood
• 1984 Purnell W. Choppin
• 1982 Irwin C. Gunsalus
• 1980 Julius Adler
• 1978 Howard Green
• 1976 Wallace P. Rowe
• 1974 Renato Dulbecco (1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine )
• 1972 Charles Yanofsky
• 1970 ER Stadtman
• 1968 Jack L. Strominger

Web links

• Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org)