List of prizes, medals, and awards

A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc.

Science, mathematics, technology

• Albert Einstein World Award of Science -- true benefit and well being to mankind (World Cultural Council)
• Alexander Agassiz Medal -- a medal and a prize of $15,000 awarded every three years for original contribution in the science of oceanography by the US National Academy of Sciences
• Balzan Prize -- international prize for humanities, natural sciences and culture, as well as humanitarian endeavours for peace
• Bruce Medal -- outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• Copley Medal -- Physical Sciences and the Biological Sciences (Royal Society of London)
• Dan David Prize -- annually honors scientists working on the "Future Dimension," with the topic rotating each year ($1 million prize)
• Dirac Prize – there are two prizes with the same name. "Dirac Medal of the ICTP" is given each year by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). "The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
• Enrico Fermi Award -- for lifetime achievement in in the development, use, or production of energy.
• Fritz Pregl Prize -- Austrian award in Chemistry (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• Gibbs Brothers Medal -- Naval architecture, Marine engineering (National Academy of Sciences).
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• James Craig Watson Medal -- Astronomy (National Academy of Sciences)
• Henry Draper Medal -- Astrophysics (National Academy of Sciences)
• Ho-Am Prize -- Korean awards for the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind
• Hubbard Medal -- National Geographic Society award for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research
• Hughes Medal -- Electricity and Magnetism (Royal Society of London)
• IEEE Edison Medal
• IEEE Medal of Honor
• Kavli Prize
• Kyoto Prize -- Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, Arts and Philosophy (Inamori Foundation)
• King Faisal Foundation Prize -- King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder and the Kingdom's third monarch. Prizes for Service to Islam, Islamic Studies and Arabic Literature were established in 1977 and first awarded in 1979. In 1981 the Prize Board added Medicine; Science was included in 1982.
• Lasker Award -- Basic Medical Research, Clinical Medical Research, Public Service (Lasker Foundation)
• Lenin Prize -- formerly awarded to Soviet citizens for achievements in arts and letters, cinema, mathematics, sciences and other disciplines.
• Lomonosov Gold Medal -- Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Longitude prize -- precise determination of a ship's longitude
• Marcel Benoist Prize -- Swiss prize for Sciences and the Humanities (Swiss Confederation)
• Marconi Prize -- advancements in communications
• Millennium Technology Prize -- for outstanding technological achievements
• NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
• National Medal of Science -- given by the President of the United States on recommendation of the National Science Foundation to scientists and engineers in behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
• National Medal of Technology -- American award for leading innovators.
• Nobel Prize -- outstanding research, groundbreaking inventions, outstanding contributions to society
• Physics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Chemistry (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Medicine (Karolinska Institute)
• Literature (Swedish Academy)
• Peace (Parliament of Norway)
• Economics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Priestley Medal -- Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
• Prince of Asturias Awards -- Sciences, Public Affairs, Humanities (Felipe, Prince of Asturias)
• Rumford Medal -- (Royal Society) restricted to scientists working in Europe
• Rumford Prize -- (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
• Shaw Prize
• Thorarinsson Medal -- Volcanology
• George Van Biesbroeck Prize -- Astronomy
• Vannevar Bush Award -- welfare of mankind and the nation (National Science Foundation)
• Wolf Prize -- Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics (Wolf Foundation)
• Wollaston Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Mathematics

• Abel Prize
• Bôcher Memorial Prize
• Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems
• Clay Research Award
• Cole Prize
• Euler Medal
• Fields Medal
• Fulkerson Prize
• John von Neumann Theory Prize
• Lobachevsky International Prize
• Modesto Panetti Prize
• Nevanlinna Prize
• Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
• Salem Prize
• Schock Prize in Mathematics
• Steele Prize
• Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Computer science, engineering, technology and invention

• ACM Turing Award
• Charles Stark Draper Prize
• EFF Pioneer Award
• FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
• IEEE John von Neumann Medal
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
• IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
• The Japan Prize
• Knuth reward check
• Lemelson-MIT Prize
• Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
• Perkin Medal
• Tony Kent Strix award

Aviation and space technology

• America's Space Prize
• ANSARI X PRIZE -- Private suborbital spaceflight, won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures
• NASA Centennial Challenges
• NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering -- aeronautical engineering
• Orteig Prize -- Aviation for trans-atlantic crossing, won by Charles Lindbergh

Medical and biomedical sciences

• Danone International Prize for Nutrition

Agriculture

• World Food Prize