The YSEA AWARD FOR ADVANCEMENT OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCE is conferred upon an individual who has received an undergraduate or graduate degree from Yale University or is a member of the Yale Faculty. While it has generally been awarded for a record of professional excellence in a particular field of science or engineering, the choice of the recipient is not explicitly limited. The candidate may have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of a scientific discipline in general, not necessarily through frontier research. Several previous award winners have gone on to become Nobel Laureates or to achieve other major international awards.
HONOR ROLL
Recent recipients:
2021 – Jerry Chow ’10, Ph.D.
2020 – Gary A. Chanan, Ph.D.
2019 – Daniel E. Prober, Ph.D., M.A.H. ’86
2018 – Eric R. Fossum, Ph.D. ’84
2017 – Arthur L. Horwich, M.D.
2016 – Chinedum Osuji, Ph.D.
2015 – T.P Ma, ’74 Ph.D.
2013 – Daniel A. Spielman ’92
2012 – Fred R. Volkmar ’98, M.A.H.
2011 – Jay D. Humphrey ’11, M.A.H.
2010 – Robert J. Schoelkopf ’01, M.A.H.
2009 – Paul L. McEuen ’91, Ph.D.
All recipients, listed in alphabetical order:
- Joseph P. Allen IV
- Sidney Altman
- William Arnett
- George R. Arthur
- R.C. Barker
- Robert J. Birgeneau
- Ray E. Bolz
- D. Allan Bromley
- Harold Brown
- Robert W. Bucheim
- John Baecher Butt
- James J. Carberry
- Gary A. Chanan
- Seymour B. Cohn
- Robert W. Cornell
- Donald M. Crothers
- Edward L. Cussler
- Peter B. Dervan
- James J. Duderstadt
- Alvan R. Feinstein
- John Bennett Fenn
- J. D. Fennebresque
- Gerald R. Fink
- George W. Flynn
- Christopher S. Foote
- Eric R. Fossum
- Charlotte Freund
- Robert L. Fullman
- David H. Gelernter
- Murray Gell-Mann
- F. S. Godsey
- Lawrence Grossman
- Walter R. Hibbard, Jr.
- Joseph F. Hoffman
- Arthur L. Horwich
- Jay D. Humphrey
- John Imbrie
- Downing B. Jenks
- Mark A. Johnson
- Richard D. Klausner
- Andrew C. Kummel
- T.P. Ma
- Vincent T. Marchesi
- Paul L. McEuen
- Ira Seth Melman
- James L. Meriam
- Peter Bartlett Moore
- Philip Ordung
- Chinedum Osuji
- Lisa D. Pfefferle
- Richard Porter
- Daniel E. Prober
- Mark A. Reed
- George S. Reichenbach
- Daniel E. Resasco
- Warren M. Rohsenow
- Albert L. Ruiz
- Robert J. Schoelkopf
- Peter M. Schultheiss
- Maxine Frank Singer
- Mitchell D. Smooke
- Daniel A. Spielman
- Joseph E. Stepanek
- Julius T. Tou
- James W. Truran
- John C. Tully
- Fred R. Volkmar
- Robert W. Walker
- Ralph T. Yang
- Felix Zweig