The AMA ''Scientific Achievement Award'' is awarded by

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. It may be given to either physicians or non-physician scientists who have contributed significantly to the field of medical science. The award itself consists of a gold medallion. The recipients are chosen by the AMA's Board of Trustees, and Physician candidates must be AMA members.

Recipients

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AMA Awards
* 1962 – Donald D. Van Slyke, PhD, Upton, New York * 1963 – John F. Enders, Phd, Boston, Massachusetts * 1964 – René J. Dubos, PhD, New York, New York * 1965 –

Edward C. Kendall Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 – May 4, 1972) was an American chemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench, for the ...

, PhD, Princeton, New Jersey * 1966 – Wendell M. Stanley, PhD, Berkeley, California * 1967 –

Gregory Pincus Gregory Goodwin Pincus (April 9, 1903 – August 22, 1967) was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill. Early life Gregory Goodwin Pincus was born in Woodbine, New Jersey to Jewish parents, who w ...

, ScD, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts * 1968 –

Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic aci ...

, MD, Palo Alto, California * 1969 – Philip Handler, PhD, Durham, North Carolina * 1970 –

Choh Hao Li Choh Hao Li (sometimes ''Cho Hao Li'') (; April 21, 1913 – November 28, 1987) was a Chinese-born American biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. In 1970 he ...

, Phd, Berkeley, California * 1971 –

Robert B. Woodward Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the most preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, e ...

, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts * 1972 – William Bennett Kouwenhoven, MD, Baltimore, Maryland * 1973 – Edith Hinkley Quimby, ScD, Palo Alto, California * 1974 – Philip Abelson, PhD, Washington, District of Columbia * 1975 – Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, Bronx, New York; Solomon A. Berson, MD (posthumously) * 1976 – Harry Goldblatt, MD, Cleveland, Ohio * 1977 –

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

, MD, Baltimore, Maryland * 1978 – F. Mason Sones, MD, Cleveland, Ohio * 1979 – Orvan W. Hess, MD, New Haven, Connecticut * 1980 – Harold E. Kleinert, MD, Louisville, Kentucky * 1981 – Hans von Leden, MD, Los Angeles, California * 1982 – Willem J. Kolff, PhD, Salt Lake City, Utah * 1983 – Maurice R. Hillerman, PhD, West Point, Pennsylvania * 1984 – Maurice J. Jurkiewicz, MD, Atlanta, Georgia * 1985 – Solomon H. Snyder, MD, Baltimore, Maryland * 1986 – George Edward Burch, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana * 1987 – Norman E. Shumway, MD, Stanford, California * 1988 –

Harriet P. Dustan Harriet Pearson Dustan (1920–1999) was an American physician who is known for her pioneering contributions to effective detection and treatment of hypertension. She was the first woman to serve on the Board of Governors of the American Board of ...

, MD, Birmingham, Alabama * 1989 – John G. Morrison, MD, Piedmont, California * 1990 – Arthur C. Guyton, MD, Jackson, Mississippi * 1991 – Henry Nicholas Wagner, Jr., MD, Baltimore, Maryland * 1992 – Byrl J. "B.J." Kennedy, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota * 1993 – Juan A. del Regato, MD, Tampa, Florida * 1994 – William H. Beierwaltes, MD, Grosse Point Park, Michigan * 1995 – Carl R. Hartrampf, Jr., MD, Atlanta, Georgia; Frank G. Moody, MD, Houston, Texas * 1996 – Alfred B. Swanson, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan * 1997 – E. Harvey Estes, MD, Raleigh, North Carolina * 1998 – Charles S. Lieber, MD, Bronx, New York * 1999 – no listed recipient * 2000 –

Tom Maniatis Tom Maniatis (born May 8, 1943), is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. He is a professor at Columbia University, and serves as the Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center. Education Maniatis received B. ...

, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts * 2001 – Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland * 2002 –

David Baltimore David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Techno ...

, PhD, Pasadena, California * 2003–2009 – no listed recipients * 2010 – David L. Chadwick, MD, La Mesa, California{{cite web , url=http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/awards/about-ama-awards-program/past-recipients.page? , title=American Medical Association (AMA) Award Recipients: Scientific Achievement Award , access-date=2012-11-09 , archive-date=2016-04-27 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427130227/http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/awards/about-ama-awards-program/past-recipients.page , url-status=dead

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