HONOR

Science award, established 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fisher Dickson, consisting of a medal and a $50,000 prize. Given by Carnegie Mellon University.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
J. Michael Bishop	Scientist	22-Feb-1936		Genetic causes of cancer
Robert C. Gallo	Doctor	23-Mar-1937		Identified first retroviruses in humans
Paul Greengard	Scientist	11-Dec-1925		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Roger Guillemin	Scientist	11-Jan-1924		Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
David H. Hubel	Scientist	27-Feb-1926		Neurophysiology of vision
Eric R. Kandel	Scientist	7-Nov-1929		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Ray Kurzweil	Inventor	12-Feb-1948		Age of Spiritual Machines
Susan L. Lindquist	Biologist	5-Jun-1949		Protein folding
Stanley B. Prusiner	Scientist	28-May-1942		Prions
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928		Structure of galaxies
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.	Scientist	19-Nov-1915	9-Mar-1974	Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP)
Torsten N. Wiesel	Scientist	3-Jun-1924		Neurophysiology of vision
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	Physicist	19-Jul-1921		Developed radioimmunoassay technique

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