NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

The NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "to recognize authors whose reviews have synthesized extensive and difficult material, rendering a significant service to science and influencing the course of scientific thought." It has been awarded annually in specific fields since 1979.

List of NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing winners

• 2011: Thomas J. Sargent (economics)
• 2010: John Alroy (geosciences)
• 2009: Roger W. Hendrix (genetics)
• 2008: Alejandro Portes (social and political sciences)
• 2007: Geoffrey R. Burbidge (astronomy)
• 2006: Peter Vitousek (environmental science)
• 2005: Daniel L. Schacter (psychology)
• 2004: Donald G. Truhlar (chemical physics)
• 2003: Stuart H. Hurlbert (ecology)
• 2002: Roy G. D'Andrade (anthropology)
• 2001: Milton W. Cole (materials science)
• 2000: Charles F. Stevens (neuroscience)
• 1999: James M. Poterba (economics)
• 1998: James R. Holton (geology/geophysics)
• 1997: Paul Harvey (evolutionary biology)
• 1996: Jeffrey S. Banks (social/political sciences)
• 1995: Robion C. Kirby (mathematics)
• 1994: Thomas M. Jessell (developmental biology)
• 1993: Janet Taylor Spence (psychology)
• 1992: Robert T. Watson (chemistry)
• 1991: Alexander N. Glazer (botany)
• 1990: James N. Spuhler (anthropology)
• 1989: Sidney R. Coleman (physics)
• 1988: Eric R. Kandel (cell biology)
• 1987: Gardner Lindzey (psychology)
• 1986: Virginia Trimble (astronomy)
• 1985: Ira Herskowitz (biochemistry)
• 1984: Ernest R. Hilgard (psychology)
• 1983: Michael E. Fisher (critical phenomena)
• 1982: Victor A. McKusick (genetics)
• 1981: John S. Chipman (economics)
• 1980: W. Conyers Herring (applied physics)
• 1979: G. Alan Robinson (pharmacology)

See also

• List of prizes

External links

• NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing National Academy of Sciences web site