The NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science is awarded by the U.S.

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"for original scientific work of intrinsic scientific importance and with significant, beneficial applications in industry."NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science
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List of Recipients

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* Shuji Nakamura (2020, sustainability) "... for his pioneering discoveries, synthesis and commercial development of Gallium nitride LEDs and their use in sustainable solid-state light sources" * Robert H. Dennard (2017, computer science) "... for seminal contributions in the field of Microelectronics for the invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), and CMOS scaling." * James C. Liao (2014, bio-energy) "... production of higher alcohols as drop-in fuel from sugars, cellulose, waste protein, or carbon dioxide." *

H. Boyd Woodruff Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is known for the discovery of actinomycin, and the development of the industrial production by fe ...

(2011, agriculture) "... multiple antibiotics, vitamin B12, and the avermectins.." *

Robert T. Fraley Robert Thomas Fraley (January 25, 1953, Danville, Illinois) was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto, where he helped to develop the first genetically modified seeds. He retired from Monsanto in June 2018. He a ...

(2008) "... technologies that enabled the production of the world's first transgenic crops .." *

Philip Needleman Philip Needleman is an American pharmacologist and academic. Needleman was a professor and associate dean at the Washington University School of Medicine and he served as an executive at Monsanto/Searle. He is credited with discovering the first ...

(2005) "... metabolism of arachidonic acid in physiology and pathophysiology, which generates prostacyclin and thromboxane." *

J. Craig Venter John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. ...

(2002) "... using expressed sequence tags in genetic analyses, ... sequencing of microbial genomes, and his leadership in ... sequencing the human genome." *

Ralph F. Hirschmann Ralph Franz Hirschmann (May 6, 1922 – June 20, 2009) was a German American chemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease. Early life and education Born on May 6, 1922, in Fürth, h ...

(1999) "... chemical design and synthesis ... of numerous essential pharmaceuticals, such as anti-inflammatory steroids and anti-hypertensive compounds." * John H. Sinfelt (1996) "... discovery of the principle of bimetallic cluster catalysis and the ... catalyst widely used in making lead-free gasoline." * Nick Holonyak (1993) "... semiconductor materials and devices, including practical light-emitting diodes." *

Carl Djerassi Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Middlebrook, Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is b ...

(1990) "contributions to steroid chemistry ndthe first successful oral contraceptive.."

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{{National Academy of Sciences, state=collapsed Awards established in 1990 Awards of the United States National Academy of Sciences

List of Recipients

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