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Dickson Prize

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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.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. Michael Bishop
Scientist
22-Feb-1936   Genetic causes of cancer
Jared Diamond
Scientist
10-Sep-1937   Collapse of societies
Robert C. Gallo
Doctor
23-Mar-1937   Identified first retroviruses in humans
Paul Greengard
Scientist
11-Dec-1925   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Carol W. Greider
Scientist
15-Apr-1961   Co-Discoverer of telomerase
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
Saul Perlmutter
Astronomer
1959   Accelerating expansion of the universe
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 30-May-2011 Developed radioimmunoassay technique


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