William Allan Award
The William Allan Award is the highest scientific award of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and is presented annually. The prize was first awarded in 1961 and is intended to commemorate William Allan (1881–1943), a US pioneer in human genetics .
In addition to a medal, the winner receives prize money of US $ 10,000 . He is supposed to give a price presentation at the annual meeting of the ASHG and publish its summary in the American Journal of Human Genetics .
Award winners
- 1962 Newton E. Morton
- 1965 James V. Neel
- 1967 Vernon Ingram
- 1968 Harry Harris
- 1969 Jérôme Lejeune
- 1970 Arno G. Motulsky
- 1973 Barton Childs
- 1974 Curt Stern
- 1975 Philip Levine , Alexander Solomon Wiener
- 1977 Victor A. McKusick
- 1978 Charles R. Scriver
- 1979 F. Clarke Fraser
- 1980 Walter F. Bodmer
- 1981 Patricia A. Jacobs
- 1982 Elizabeth F. Neufeld
- 1983 Frank H. Ruddle
- 1984 Yuet Wai Kan
- 1985 Joseph L. Goldstein , Michael S. Brown
- 1986 Mary Frances Lyon
- 1987 Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- 1988 Torbjörn Caspersson
- 1989 David Botstein , Raymond L. White
- 1990 Kary B. Mullis
- 1991 Janet D. Rowley , Alfred Knudson , Jr.
- 1992 Alec Jeffreys
- 1993 Antonio Cao , Michael Kaback
- 1994 Doug Wallace
- 1995 Kurt Hirschhorn
- 1996 Robert Elston
- 1997 Philip Leder
- 1998 Bert Vogelstein
- 1999 Stephen Warren
- 2001 Charles J. Epstein
- 2002 Albert de la Chapelle
- 2003 David Weatherall
- 2004 Louis Kunkel
- 2005 Francis Collins
- 2006 Dorothy Warburton
- 2007 Arthur Beaudet
- 2008 Haig Kazazian
- 2009 Huntington F. Willard
- 2010 Jurg Ott
- 2011 John M. Opitz
- 2012 Uta Francke
- 2013 Aravinda Chakravarti
- 2014 Stuart H. Orkin
- 2015 Kay E. Davies
- 2016 James F. Gusella
- 2017 Kári Stefánsson
- 2018 Eric S. Lander
- 2019 Stylianos E. Antonarakis
- 2020 Mary-Claire King
Web links
- ASHG Awards and list of winners at the American Society of Human Genetics (ashg.org)
- ^ ASHG Honors Mary-Claire King, PhD with the 2020 William Allan Award. In: ashg.org. American Society of Human Genetics, July 13, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .