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Nevada Medal

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The Nevada Medal was established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement in science and engineering", and is presented by the Governor of Nevada.[1] The previous recipients are:

  1. Verner Suomi
  2. Dwight Billings
  3. James A. Van Allen
  4. Benoit Mandelbrot
  5. Carl Djerassi
  6. Margaret Bryan Davis
  7. John N. Bahcall
  8. Charles Elachi
  9. Hector F. DeLuca
  10. F. Sherwood Rowland
  11. Lynn Margulis
  12. Wallace Broecker
  13. Harold Mooney
  14. John H. Seinfeld
  15. M. Gordon Wolman
  16. Charles Goldman
  17. Fakhri A. Bazzaz
  18. Farouk El-Baz
  19. Donald Grayson
  20. Walter Alvarez
  21. Susan Lindquist
  22. James E. Hansen
  23. Francis Collins
  24. Robert Ballard
  25. Steven Squyres
  26. Nina Fedoroff
  27. Albert Yu-Min Lin
  28. Christopher McKay
  29. Missy Cummings
  30. Marcia McNutt
  31. Kathryn Sullivan (2021)[2]

References

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  1. ^ "About the DRI Nevada Medal". Desert Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. ^ "2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space" (Press release). 25 November 2019.
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