This list of early career awards is an index to articles on notable awards given to individuals who show great promise early in their career.

List of awards

Arts

;Literary *

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish ...

(recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a Commonwealth author under 40) *

International Young Publisher of the Year {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 The International Young Publisher of the Year is a British Council award programme, which has been developed with the support of the London Book Fair. It is targeted at publishers aged 25 to 35 from emerging economi ...

(young publishers) *

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer who has not yet published his or her first book. Formerly restricted to writers under age 35, the age li ...

(a writer under 35 who has not yet published his or her first book) ;Music *

BBC Young Musician of the Year BBC Young Musician is a televised national music competition broadcast wikt:biennially, biennially on BBC Television and BBC Radio 3. Originally BBC Young Musician of the Year, its name was changed in 2010. The competition, a former member of t ...

Eurovision Young Musicians The Eurovision Young Musicians (), often shortened to EYM, or Young Musicians, is a biennial classical music competition for European musicians that are aged between 12 and 21. It is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and broadcast ...

International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year The International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award is a British Council and London Calling award program for young (aged 25 to 35) entrepreneurs in the music industry from the developing and transitional economies, launched in 2006, and la ...

(music industry) *

Peter Whittingham Award Help Musicians (formerly Musicians Benevolent Fund), is a United Kingdom charity offering help for musicians throughout their careers. History It was created by Victor Beigel in 1921 as the Gervase Elwes Memorial Fund, following the death of En ...

(musicians) ;Other *

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

(visual artist under age of 50)

Sciences

Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a PhD, for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar ...

(distinguished contributions by a woman within 5 years of receiving a PhD) * Charles F. Lucks Award (for significant contribution to the subject of thermal conductivity by a young scientist) *

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...

(mathematicians not over age of 40) *

Francqui Prize The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...

(Belgian scholar or scientist under 50) *

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award The Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society in Rockville, Maryland, is given to a woman who "holds very high promise or has achieved prominence while developing the early stages of a career in biophysical research".Biophysical So ...

from the

Biophysical Society The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. Founded in 1958, the Society currently consists of over 7,500 members in academia, government, an ...

, Rockfille, 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 *

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in t ...

from the American Physical Society (outstanding work by a woman within 7 years of receiving a PhD) *

Otto Hahn Medal The Otto Hahn Medal (german: Otto-Hahn-Medaille) is awarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers in both the natural and social sciences. The award takes its name from the German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Otto Hahn ...

(young/junior scientists) * Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize (outstanding younger German scientists under the age of 40) * Passano Foundation Young Scientist Award *

Searle Scholars Program The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to the 15 young US professionals in biomedical research and chemistry considered most promising. The award was established in 1980 by a donation from the Searle (company), Sear ...

(career development award made annually to the 15 young US professionals in biomedical research and chemistry) * Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award for the Physical Sciences (early to mid-career scientists, within seven years of the awarding of their doctorate from a research institution in the State of Victoria, Australia) * Frank Fenner's (prev. Science Minister's) Prize for Life Scientist of the Year (early to mid-career scientists, not more than ten years past the award of their highest degree (e.g. Master’s or PhD), working in the life sciences) *

Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science are annual Australian awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation, and teaching. The prizes have been awarded since 2000, when they replaced the Australia Prize for science. The ...

(early to mid-career scientists, not more than ten years past the award of their highest degree (e.g. Master’s or PhD), working in the physical sciences) * Presidential Early Career Award for scientists and engineers * Young Scientist Research Prizes (final year PhD candidates from a research institution in the State of Victoria, Australia) * National Institutes of Health Genomic Innovator Award (early career investigators in genome biology and genomic medicine "with outstanding records of productivity as they pursue important research areas, including new directions as they arise") * Young Environmentalist of the Year award (positive impacts in the water & environmental sector) ; Social sciences * T. S. Ashton Prize (economic history - author is 35 or younger, OR within 5 years of Ph.D., OR has no previous publication in economic/social history or closely related field) *

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

(American economist under age of 40)

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