Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
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The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science was established in 1889 by the will of university president Frederick A. P. Barnard, and has been awarded by Columbia, based on recommendations by the National Academy of Science, every 5 years since 1895. If you win a Barnard Medal, you either already have, or will earn a Nobel prize too (in fact, the Barnard Medal pre-dates the Nobel prizes.) Not to be confused with the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
Winners
- 1895 - Lord Rayleigh, William Ramsay
- 1900 - Wilhelm Röntgen
- 1905 - Henri Becquerel
- 1910 - Ernest Rutherford
- 1915 - William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg
- 1920 - Albert Einstein
- 1925 - Niels Bohr
- 1930 - Werner Heisenberg
- 1935 - Edwin Hubble
- 1940 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie
- 1945 - No award[1][2]
- 1950 - Enrico Fermi
- 1955 - Merle Tuve
- 1960 - I. I. Rabi
- 1965 - William Alfred Fowler
- 1970 -
- 1975 -
- 1985 - Benoit Mandelbrot
- 1990 -
- 1995 -
- 2000 -
- 2005 -
- 2010 -
References
- ↑ The NAS's Barnard Medal Committee unanimously recommended that no award be made in 1945, owing to the fact that World War 2 had "blanketed much of the evidence which should be considered" for the award. Letter of Barnard Medal Committee Chairman Edwin Hubble to the Secretary of the National Academy of Science, April 11, 1945.
- ↑ No award recipient for 1945 is listed in list of medal recipients in the Annual Report of the National Academy of Sciences for 1960 (pg. 203).
