Dickson Prize

Dickson Prize in Medicine

The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the University of Pittsburgh, and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progressive contributions" to medicine. The award includes $50,000, a bronze medal, and the Dickson Prize Lecture. Receiving the Dickson Prize in Medicine is strongly correlated with receiving the Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize.

Recipients

Source: University of Pittsburg

1971 Earl W. Sutherland Jr.

1972 Solomon A. Berson and Rosalyn S. Yalow

1973 John H. Gibbon Jr.

1974 Stephen W. Kuffler

1975 Elizabeth F. Neufeld

1976 Frank J. Dixon

1977 Roger Guillemin

1978 Paul Greengard

1979 Bert W. O'Malley

1980 David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel

1981 Philip Leder

1982 Francis H. Ruddle

1983 Eric R. Kandel

1984 Solomon H. Snyder

1985 Robert C. Gallo

1986 J. Michael Bishop

1987 Elvin A. Kabat

1988 Leroy E. Hood

1989 Bernard Moss

1990 Ernst Knobil

1991 Phillip A. Sharp

1992 Francis Sellers Collins

1993 Stanley B. Prusiner

1994 Bert Vogelstein

1995 Ronald M. Evans

1996 Philippa Marrack

1997 Ed Harlow and Eric Steven Lander

1998 Richard D. Klausner

1999 James E. Darnell Jr.

2000 Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Dickson Prize Lecture, April 13, 2000: "Telomere Capping and Cell Proliferation")

2001 Robert G. Roeder (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 12, 2001: "Regulation of Transcription in Human Cells: Complexities and Challenges")

2002 C. David Allis (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 18, 2002: "Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails")

2003 Susan L. Lindquist (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 24, 2003: "Protein Conformation as a Pathway to Understanding Cellular Processes, Disease and Bio-Inspired Materials")

2004 Elaine Fuchs (Dickson Prize Lecture, 2004: "Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages")

2005 Ronald W. Davis (Dickson Prize Lecture, 2005: "New Genomic Technology for Yeast Applied to Clinical Medicine")

2006 Roger D. Kornberg (Dickson Prize Lecture, October 5, 2006: "Chromatin and Transcription")

2007 Carol W. Greider (Dickson Prize Lecture, October 11, 2007: "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction")

2008 Randy W. Schekman (Dickson Prize Lecture, "Dissecting the Secretion Process: From Basic Mechanism to Human Disease")

2009 Victor Ambros (Dickson Prize Lecture, "MicroRNAs, from Model Organisms to Human Biology.")

2010 Stephen J. Elledge

2011 J. Craig Venter

2012 Brian J. Druker

2013 Huda Y. Zoghbi (Dickson Prize Lecture, Thursday, October 3, 2013: "Rett Syndrome and MECP2 Disorders: From the Clinic to Genes and Neurobiology.")

2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon

2015 Karl Deisseroth

2016 Jennifer Doudna

Dickson Prize in Science

The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon University, and recognizes those who "have made the most progress in the scientific field in the United States for the year in question." The award is dated by the year in which it was announced, which is often the year before the lecture occurs.

1970 Richard Bellman

1971 George Palade and Keith Roberts Porter

1972 Francis L. Ver Snyder

1973 Elias J. Corey

1974 David H. Geiger, civil engineering

1975 - not awarded

1976 - not awarded

1977 John H. Sinfelt

1978 Seymour Benzer

1979 - not awarded

1980 John Werner Cahn

1981 - not awarded

1982 Harden M. McConnell

1983-84 Edward Fredkin

1985 Norman Davidson

1986 Benjamin Widom

1987 Mitchell Feigenbaum

1988 Joan A. Steitz

1989 Richard E. Dickerson

1990 F. Sherwood Rowland

1991 David Botstein

1992 Paul Lauterbur

1993 Vera Rubin

1994 Raymond Kurzweil

1995 Leland Hartwell

1996 John P. Hirth

1997 Walter Alvarez

1998 Peter Shor, 25th recipient (Dickson Lecture, November 8, 1999, "Quantum Computing")

1999 Howard Raiffa (Dickson Lecture, Tue. April 4, 2000: "Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist"

2000 Alexander Pines (Dickson Lecture, April 11, 2001: "Some Magnetic Moments"

2001 Carver Mead (Dickson Lecture, March 19, 2002: "The Coming Revolution in Photography")

2002 Robert Langer (Dickson Lecture, February 26, 2003: "Biomaterials And How They Will Change Our Lives")

2003 Marc W. Kirschner (Dickson Lecture, March 30, 2004: "Timing the Inner Cell Cycle")

2004 George Whitesides (Dickson Lecture, March 28, 2005: "Assumptions: If common assumptions about the modern world break down, then what could science and technology make happen?")

2005 David Haussler (Dickson Lecture, March 9, 2006: "Ultraconserved elements, living fossil transposons, and rapid bursts of change: reconstructing the uneven evolutionary history of the human genome"

2006 Jared Diamond (Dickson Lecture, March 26, 2007: "Collapse")

2007 Jean Fréchet

2008 Richard M. Karp

2009 Saul Perlmutter (Dickson Lecture, March 17, 2010: "Stalking Dark Energy & the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe")

2010 David A. Tirrell

2011 Marvin L. Cohen (March 8, 2012: "Einstein, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience & Superconductivity")

2012 François M. M. Morel (March 12, 2013: "Ocean Acidification: Causes, Time Scales & Consequences")

2013 Karl Deisseroth (February 3, 2014: "Illuminating the Brain")

2014 Joseph M. DeSimone (February 16, 2015: "Breakthroughs in Imprint Lithography and 3D Additive Fabrication")

2015 Judea Pearl (February 29, 2016 : "Science, Counterfactuals and Free Will")