Support of Science Award

Each year CSSP confers its Award for Support of Science to honor an individual who merits recognition for outstanding and dedicated support of U.S. science, free scientific communication, and support of basic research. Winners of this CSSP award include:

Awardees Allan Bromley and Carol Browner

National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts, and National Medal of Science Winner Maxine Singer

2010 – The Gordon Research Conferences

2009 – Paula Dobriansky, Undersecretary (ret.), State Department

2008 – Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation

2007 – Arden Bement, Director, National Science Foundation

2006 – Norman Borlaug, CIMMYT

2005 – Sherwood Boehlert, Chair, House Science Committee

2004 – Don Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science

2003 – Christopher “Kit” Bond, Chair, Senate Independent Agencies Appropriations Committee

2002 – Martin A. Apple, President, CSSP

Commerce Under Secretary Mary Good

2001 – Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences

2000 – Neal Lane, Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, White House
2000 – Senator Bill Frist, MD, Chair, Senate Science Caucus & Senate Science, Technology & Space Committees

1999 – Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird Professor, Harvard

1998 – F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine

1997 – Norman Augustine, CEO, Lockheed-Martin Corporation

1996 – Mary L. Good, Under Secretary for Technology, United States Department of Commerce

1995 – Philip H. Abelson, Editor-in-Chief (ret), Science

1994 – M.R.C. Greenwood, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House

1993 – Maxine Singer, President, Carnegie Foundation

1992 – D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House

1991 – George E. Brown, Chairman, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

1990 – Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

1989 – C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon-General

1988 – Roland W. Schmitt, Chairman, National Science Board

1987 – William Carey, Executive Officer, AAAS

1986 – Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation

1985 – George Keyworth, Science Advisor to the President

1984 – Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences

1983 – Don Fuqua, Chairman, House Committee on Science and Technology

: Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug