Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
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The Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
"for important contributions to the medical sciences." It was first awarded in 1952.
United States National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
"for important contributions to the medical sciences." It was first awarded in 1952.
List of Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal winners
- 2010: Janet D. RowleyJanet RowleyJanet Davison Rowley is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers....
- 2007: Jeffrey M. FriedmanJeffrey M. FriedmanJeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity.-Biography:...
- 2004: Irving L. WeissmanIrving WeissmanIrving Lerner "Irv" Weissman M.D. is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine....
- 2001: Robert J. LefkowitzRobert LefkowitzRobert J. Lefkowitz, M.D. is an American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors.-Biography:...
- 1998: Hugh O. McDevitt
- 1994: Donald MetcalfDonald MetcalfEmeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne...
- 1991: Roscoe O. BradyRoscoe BradyRoscoe O. Brady M.D., is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a part of the National Institute of Health, USA, where he is currently the chief of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch. Brady graduated from Pennsylvania State University and...
- 1988: Maclyn McCartyMaclyn McCartyMaclyn McCarty was an American geneticist.Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene...
- 1985: Oscar D. Ratnoff
- 1979: Henry G. Kunkel
- 1976: Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
- 1973: Seymour S. KetySeymour S. KetySeymour S. Kety was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease...
- 1970: Thomas Francis, Jr.Thomas Francis, Jr.Thomas Francis, Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in America, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccines.- Life and achievements :Francis...
- 1967: Karl P. LinkKarl Paul LinkKarl Paul Gerhard Link was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin.-Training and early career:...
- 1966: Rufus Cole
- 1962: George H. WhippleGeorge WhippleGeorge Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator...
- 1961: Karl F. MeyerKarl Friedrich MeyerKarl Friedrich Meyer was an American scientist of Swiss origin. He was one of the most prodigious scientists in many areas of infectious diseases in man and animals, the ecology of pathogens, epidemiology and public health[1-6]...
- 1959: Eugene L. OpieEugene Lindsay OpieEugene Lindsay Opie, M.D. was an American physician and pathologist who conducted important research on the causes, transmission, and diagnosis of tuberculosis and on immunization against the disease. He served as professor of pathology at several U.S. medical schools, as well as Dean of the...
- 1958: Ernest W. GoodpastureErnest William GoodpastureDr. Ernest William Goodpasture was an American pathologist and physician. Goodpasture advanced the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, parasitism, and a variety of rickettsial and viral infections...
- 1955: Peyton RousFrancis Peyton RousPeyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
- 1952: Alfred N. RichardsAlfred Newton RichardsAlfred Newton Richards was an American pharmacologist.Richards was born in Stamford, New York. He served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology from 1910 to 1946; thereafter he became Professor Emeritus...
External links
- Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal National Academy of Sciences web site