The George W. Beadle Award is a scientific prize given by the
Genetics Society of America to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions” to
Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...
. The Award was established in 1999 and named in honor of
George Wells Beadle
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical eve ...
, who won the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...
in 1958.
Laureates
Source
Genetics Society of America* 1999
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner (born 23 May 1942) is a biologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Mo ...
* 2000
John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' in 2002 with ...
and
Robert Waterston
*2001
Gerald Fink
*2002 André Goffeau and
Robert K. Mortimer
*2003
Gerald M. Rubin and
Allan C. Spradling
* 2004
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
* 2005
Thomas C. Kaufman, Indiana University
* 2006
Fred Sherman, University of Rochester
* 2007
Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota
* 2008
Mark Johnston, Washington University School of Medicine
* 2009
Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School
* 2010
William M. Gelbart, Harvard University
* 2011
Joseph R. Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
* 2012
Therese Markow, University of California, San Diego
* 2013
R. Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
* 2014
Hugo J. Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine
* 2015
John Postlethwait, University of Oregon
* 2016
Susan Celniker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* 2017
Susan A. Gerbi, Brown University
* 2018
Philip Hieter, University of British Columbia
* 2019
Michael P. Snyder, Stanford University
* 2020
Julie Ahringer, Cambridge University
See also
*
List of genetics awards
References
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American science and technology awards
Genetics awards
1999 establishments in the United States
Awards established in 1999