List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science

Astronomy, space, atmospheric science

Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy - annual award for outstanding contributions to astronomy by a woman within five years of earning a doctorate degree.

Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences (created 1998) - awarded annually based on paper completion to a woman studying for a Masters or PhD in atmospheric science at a university in the United States. Award amount $1500. [1]

Biology and medicine

FASEB Excellence in Science Award

Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (established 2004)

Women in Medicine Leadership Development Awards, American Association of Medical Colleges

WICB Junior and Senior Awards

Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, given by the American Medical Women's Association to a woman physician "who has made the most outstanding contributions to the cause of women in the field of medicine"

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society, Rockville, Maryland - given to a woman who "has achieved prominence for 'substantial contributions to science'" and showing high promise in the early part of her career

Chemistry

ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation [2]

Garvan-Olin Medal, an annual award that recognizes distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists

Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, an award given by the Iota Sigma Pi honorary society for women in chemistry. Other awards given by the society:

National Honorary Member

Violet Diller Professional Excellence Award

Centennial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research

Undergraduate Excellence in Chemistry

Gladys Anderson Emerson Undergraduate Scholarship

Members-at-Large Re-entry Award

Outstanding Young Women in Chemistry award.

Engineering

Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education [3]

Society of Women Engineers [4]

Mathematics

Krieger–Nelson Prize for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics, established 1995 by the Canadian Mathematical Society

Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education, established 1991 by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Emmy Noether Lectures, an honorary lecture award established by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, established 1990 by the American Mathematical Society with funds from Joan S. Birman

Alice T. Schafer Prize, established 1991 by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Essay Contest: Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics, established in 2001 by the Association for Women in Mathematics

See also Prizes, Awards, and Honors for Women Mathematicians

Technology

Blackberry Women and Technology Awards

General or multiple fields

Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Educational Foundation Award and other Educational Foundation Awards

AMELIA EARHART FELLOWSHIP http://www.zonta.org/Global-Impact/Education/Amelia-Earhart-Fellowship

Athena SWAN, a recognition scheme for UK universities working to advance and promote careers of women in science, engineering, and technology

Brookhaven Women in Science Scholarships and Awards for women in science

Edith Hendley Award for a woman pursuing graduate studies

Elizabeth Blackwell Award [5], given by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, established in 1958

Elsevier Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World

Katharine F. Erskine Award for Medicine and Science, YWCA (created 1993)

CRDF Global, Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship

Korea Outstanding Women in Science Award (established 2002 by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation)

L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science (aka the Helena Rubinstein Women in Science Awards)

Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, established in 1987 by the History of Science Society

Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award "to recognize an individual whose efforts have encouraged the advancement of girls and women in the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science and technology"

Mariafranca Morselli Award for an undergraduate woman in science

Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award), a Norwegian prize for women environmentalists

Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowships, awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD or post-doctoral study in the physical sciences and engineering.

Saruhashi Prize, an award for Japanese women researchers in the natural sciences

South African Awards for Women in Science, including

Distinguished Woman Scientist Award

Distinguished Scientist Award for Contribution to the Improvement of the Quality of Life of Women

Best Emerging Young Woman Scientist Award

Tagea Brandt Rejselegat, a Danish award for women who have made significant contributions in either science, literature or art

Weizmann Women & Science Award

WISE Excellence Award (Women Into Science and Engineering)

Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame

Women of Discovery Award, WINGS WorldQuest [6]