2000s
2008
Dr.
George V. Coyne S.J.
2007
Dr.
Margaret Dalzell Lowman
Adventurer, Educator, Forest Canopy Biologist
2006
Dr.
Paul Farmer
Medical anthropologist and physician; founding director of Partners in Health
2005
Dr. Holmes Rolston, III
University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State
University.
2004
Dr. Ralph Hirschmann
Rao Makineni Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania.
2003
Dr. Janet Rowley
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor; Department of Human Genetics, The
University of Chicago.
2002
Dr. Ruth Patrick
Professor; The Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
2001
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey
Physician - Surgeon; Chancellor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medecine, Houston,
TX.
2000
Dr. Peter C. Doherty
Professor and Chairman, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, Memphis, TN. Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1996).
1990s
1999
Dr. Charles H. Townes
Professor in the Graduate School, the University of California at Berkeley;
Inventor of the maser and laser; Nobel Laureate in Physics (1964).
1998
Dr. Francis S. Collins
Physician - Geneticist; Director, National Center for Human Genome Research
1997
Dr. Peter H. Raven
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden; Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington
University.
1996
Dr. Maxine F. Singer
President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Scientist Emeritus, Laboratory of
Biochemistry, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, National Cancer
Institute; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
1995
Dr. Victor A. McKusick
Founder President of the Human Genome Organization; pioneer in bringing genetics
into the mainstream of clinical medicine; University Professor of Medical
Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University and Physician at The Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, Md.
1993
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
Discoverer of RNA splicing; Salvadore E. Lauria Professor and Head, Department
of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former director of the
Center for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nobel
Laureate in Medicine (1993).
1960s
1968
Dr. Alfred M. Bongiovanni
Specialist in glands and growth problems in children; Physician-in-Chief at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the William H. Bennett Professor of
Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , Philadelphia.
1965
Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel
Pioneer in Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery at Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C.
1963
Major Robert M. White, U.S.A.F.
Pilot, X-15 Experimental Research Aircraft, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
1961
Dr. James A. Shannon
Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
1960
Dr. William J. Thaler
United States Navy Research Physicist.
1940s
1946
Dr. John C. Hubbard
Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1943
Dr. George Speri Sperti
Director, Institutum Divi Thomae, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1942
Dr. Joseph A. Becker
Research Physicist of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1941
Dr. Eugene M. K. Geiling
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Chicago.
1940
Dr. Petrus J.W. Debye
Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1936).
1930s
1939
Dr. (Rev.) John Montgomery Cooper
Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1938
Dr. Thomas Parran
Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.
1937
Dr. (Rev.) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
Paleontologist with the National Geological Survey of China.
1936
Dr. (Rev.) Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame.
1935
Dr. Francis Owen Rice
Professor of Chemistry at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1934
Abbé Georges Lemaître, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor of Astro-Physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.
1933
Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor, F.R.S.L.
Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Princeton University.
1932
Dr. Francis P. Garvan
President of the Chemical Foundation of America, New York.
1931
Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld
Professor of Physics at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1930
Dr. Albert F. Zahm
Pioneer in Aeronautics; Director of Aeronautical Research in the Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
