The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the

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and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world.AAAD Awards – AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
AAAS webpage. The establishment of this new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was announced by AAAS executive officer William D. Carey on 23 October 1980. The award, presented for the first time at the 1982 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, consisted of a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000. According to the AAAS, these types of exemplary actions include "acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates." The 2018 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was

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and

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engineer Marc Edwards. The AAAS stated that he was given the award for his ability "to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies" in the area of Flint Michigan. According to Marc, Flint Michigan "represents misconduct by local and federal government engineers and scientists... and allowed an unprecedented exposure to the best known nerve toxin in the most powerful city in America, and perhaps even the world".

Recipients

* 2021 Ricardo Galvão * 2020 Erin Kimmerle * 2019 Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake (to be confirmed) * 2018 Mark Edwards * 2017 Award date adjusted – see 2018 * 2016

Kurt Gottfried Kurt Gottfried (May 17, 1929 – August 25, 2022) was an Austrian-born American physicist who was professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University. He was known for his work in the areas of quantum mechanics and particle physics and was also ...

* 2015 Jean Maria Arrigo * 2014

Omid Kokabee Omid Kokabee (Persian: امید کوکبی; born 1982) is an Iranian experimental laser physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who was arrested in Iran after returning from the United States to visit his family on January 30, 2011. He was ...

* 2013 Hoosen Coovadia * 2012 Kiyoshi Kurokawa * 2011 J. David Jentsch, Edythe D. London, and Dario Ringach * 2010

Elizabeth Loftus Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies. Loftus's research includes the effects of phrasing on the percep ...

* 2009

Nancy Olivieri Nancy Fern Olivieri (born 1954) is a prominent Toronto haematologist and researcher with an interest in the treatment of haemoglobinopathies. She is best known for a protracted struggle with the Hospital for Sick Children and the pharmaceutical c ...

* 2008 Drummond Rennie * 2007

James Hansen James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1942) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1 ...

* 2006

Eugenie Scott Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and educator who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined t ...

, Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy * 2005

David Michaels David Michaels may refer to: *David Michaels (author), a pseudonym for the authors of novels in the ''Splinter Cell'', ''EndWar'', ''H.A.W.X'', and ''Ghost Recon'' series *David Michaels (epidemiologist) (born 1954), American epidemiologist and OSHA ...

* 2004 rDNA Advisory Committee * 2003

Walter Reich Walter Reich is an American magazine editor, psychiatrist, and writer. He was the 2003 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. Appointments In the past, Reich held the roles of director of the U.S. Holocaust Memor ...

* 2002 L. Dennis Smith * 2001 Howard K. Schachman * 2000

Alexander Nikitin Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin (russian: Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Ники́тин; born 16 May 1952) is a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist. In 1996 he was accused ...

* 1999 Joel L. Lebowitz * 1998 JoAnn Burkholder * 1997 Salim Kheirbek * 1996

Daniel Callahan Daniel John Callahan (July 19, 1930 – July 16, 2019) was an American philosopher who played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of The Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute. He ser ...

* 1995

Vil Mirzayanov Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov (russian: Вил Султанович Мирзаянов, tt-Cyrl, Вил Солтан улы Мирзаҗанов; born 9 March 1935 in Starokangyshevo, Dyurtyulinsky District, Bashkortostan) is a Russian people, Russi ...

* 1994 June E. Osborn,

Mathilde Krim Mathilde Krim ( he, מתילדה קרים; née Galland; July 9, 1926 – January 15, 2018) was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of amfAR, American Foundation for AIDS Research. Biography Mathilde Galland was born in Como, Italy t ...

* 1993 Daniel L. Albritton, Robert T. Watson * 1992

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* 1991 Adrian R. Morrison * 1990 Matthew S. Meselson * 1989 Robert L. Sprague,

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* 1988 Richard L. Garwin, Roger M. Boisjoly * 1987 Stanley L. Weinberg, Norman D. Newell,

Francisco J. Ayala Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist, philosopher, and former Catholic priest who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine and University of California, Dav ...

* 1986 Colegio Medico de Chile,

Victor Paschkis The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

* 1985 Werner A. Baum * 1983 Anatoly Koryagin, Jose Westerkamp * 1982

Paul Berg Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their con ...

Maxine Singer Maxine Frank Singer (born February 15, 1931) is an American molecular biologist and science administrator. She is known for her contributions to solving the genetic code, her role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniq ...

Norton Zinder Norton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012) was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1947, Ph.D. from the Univers ...

, Morris H. Baslow

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Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility – AAAS

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Awards – York University

AAAS Establishes Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility – ''Science''. 1980 Dec 5;210(4474):1115-6
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