Robert Andrews Millikan

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Robert Andrews Millikan
Física


Nacionalidade	Estadunidense
Residência	Estados Unidos

Nascimento	22 de março de 1868
Local	Morrison

Falecimento	19 de dezembro de 1953 (85 anos)
Local	San Marino

Actividade
Campo(s)	Física
Instituições	Universidade de Chicago, Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia
Alma mater	Oberlin College, Universidade Columbia

Orientador(es)	Michael Pupin e Albert Abraham Michelson
Orientado(s)	William Hayward Pickering, Robley Evans, Harvey Fletcher, Chung-Yao Chao

Prêmio(s)	Prêmio Comstock de Física (1913), Medalha Edison IEEE (1922), Nobel de Física (1923), Medalha Hughes (1923), Medalha Matteucci (1925), Medalha ASME (1926), Medalha Franklin (1937)

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Robert Andrews Millikan (Morrison, 22 de março de 1868 — San Marino, 19 de dezembro de 1953) foi um físico estadunidense.

Recebeu o Nobel de Física de 1923, por trabalhos sobre cargas elétricas elementares e o efeito fotoeléctrico.^[1]

Referências

↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923. Página visitada em 14 de julho de 2009.(em inglês)

[editar] Ligações externas

Perfil no sítio oficial do Nobel de Física 1923 (em inglês)

Precedido por Niels Bohr	Nobel de Física 1923	Sucedido por Karl Siegbahn
Precedido por Francis William Aston	Medalha Hughes 1923	Sucedido por Frank Edward Smith
Precedido por Arnold Sommerfeld	Medalha Matteucci 1925	Sucedido por Enrico Fermi
Precedido por Frank Baldwin Jewett e Charles Kettering	Medalha Franklin 1937 com Peter Debye	Sucedido por William Frederick Durand e Charles August Kraus

v • e Presidentes da American Physical Society
1899-1925	1899 Henry Augustus Rowland • 1901 Albert Abraham Michelson • 1903 Arthur Gordon Webster • 1905 Carl Barus • 1907 Edward Leamington Nichols • 1909 Henry Crew • 1911 William Francis Magie • 1913 Benjamin Osgood Peirce • 1914 Ernest Merritt • 1916 Robert Andrews Millikan • 1918 Henry Andrews Bumstead • 1919 Joseph Sweetman Ames • 1921 Theodore Lyman • 1923 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall • 1925 Dayton Miller
1926-1950	1927 Karl Taylor Compton • 1929 Henry Gale • 1931 William Francis Gray Swann • 1933 Paul Darwin Foote • 1934 Arthur Holly Compton • 1935 Robert Williams Wood • 1936 Floyd Richtmyer • 1937 Harrison Randall • 1938 Lyman Briggs • 1939 John Tate • 1940 John Zeleny • 1941 George Braxton Pegram • 1941 Gideon Tabor Stewart • 1942 Percy Williams Bridgman • 1943 Albert Hull • 1944 Arthur Jeffrey Dempster • 1945 Harvey Fletcher • 1946 Edward Condon • 1947 Lee Alvin DuBridge • 1948 Robert Oppenheimer • 1949 Francis Wheeler Loomis • 1950 Isidor Isaac Rabi
1951-1975	1951 Charles Christian Lauritsen • 1952 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • 1953 Enrico Fermi • 1954 Hans Bethe • 1955 Raymond Thayer Birge • 1956 E. Wigner • 1957 Henry DeWolf Smyth • 1958 Jesse Beams • 1959 George Eugene Uhlenbeck • 1960 Victor Weisskopf • 1961 Frederick Seitz • 1962 William Vermillion Houston • 1963 John Harry Williams • 1964 Robert Bacher • 1965 Felix Bloch • 1966 John Archibald Wheeler • 1967 Charles Hard Townes • 1968 John Bardeen • 1969 Luis Walter Alvarez • 1970 Edward Mills Purcell • 1971 Robert Serber • 1972 Philip McCord Morse • 1973 Joseph Edward Mayer • 1974 Wolfgang Panofsky • 1975 Chien-Shiung Wu
1976-2000	1976 William Alfred Fowler • 1977 George Pake • 1978 Norman Foster Ramsey • 1979 Lewis Branscomb • 1980 Herman Feshbach • 1981 Arthur Schawlow • 1982 Maurice Goldhaber • 1983 Robert Marshak • 1984 Mildred Dresselhaus • 1985 Robert Rathbun Wilson • 1986 Sidney Drell • 1987 Val Logsdon Fitch • 1989 J. Krumhansl • 1990 Eugen Merzbacher • 1991 Nicolaas Bloembergen • 1992 Ernest Henley • 1993 Donald Langenberg • 1994 Burton Richter • 1995 Chandra Kumar Patel • 1996 John Robert Schrieffer • 1997 David Allan Bromley • 1998 Andrew Sessler • 1999 Jerome Isaac Friedman • 2000 James Langer
2001-futuro	2001 George Trilling • 2002 William Brinkman • 2003 Myriam Sarachik • 2004 Helen Quinn • 2005 Marvin Cohen • 2006 John Hopfield • 2007 Leo Kadanoff • 2008 Arthur Bienenstock • 2009 Cherry A. Murray • 2010 Curtis Callan • 2011 Barry C. Barish • 2012 Robert L. Byer • 2013 Michael Turner • 2014 Malcolm R. Beasley

v • e Medalha Edison IEEE
1909–1925	1909: Elihu Thomson · 1910: Frank Julian Sprague · 1911: George Westinghouse · 1912: William Stanley · 1913: Charles Francis Brush · 1914: Alexander Graham Bell · 1915: Não concedida · 1916: Nikola Tesla · 1917: John Joseph Carty · 1918: Benjamin Garver Lamme · 1919: William Le Roy Emmet · 1920: Michael Pupin · 1921: Cummings C. Chesney · 1922: Robert Andrews Millikan · 1923: John W. Lieb · 1924: John W. Howell · 1925: Harris J. Ryan
1926–1950	1926: Não concedida · 1927: William David Coolidge · 1928: Frank Baldwin Jewett · 1929: Charles F. Scott · 1930: Frank Conrad · 1931: Edwin W. Rice · 1932: Bancroft Gherardi · 1933: Arthur Edwin Kennelly · 1934: Willis Rodney Whitney · 1935: Lewis B. Stillwell · 1936: Alex Dow · 1937: Gano Dunn · 1938: Dugald C. Jackson · 1939: Philip Torchio · 1940: George Ashley Campbell · 1941: John B. Whitehead · 1942: Edwin Armstrong · 1943: Vannevar Bush · 1944: Ernst Alexanderson · 1945: Philip Sporn · 1946: Lee De Forest · 1947: Joseph Slepian · 1948: Morris E. Leeds · 1949: Karl B. McEachron · 1950: Otto B. Blackwell
1951–1975	1951: Charles F. Wagner · 1952: Vladimir Zworykin · 1953: John F. Peters · 1954: Oliver Ellsworth Buckley · 1955: Leonid A. Umansky · 1956: Comfort A. Adams · 1957: John K. Hodnette · 1958: Charles Kettering · 1959: James F. Fairman · 1960: Harold S. Osborne · 1961: William B. Kouwenhoven · 1962: Alexander C. Monteith · 1963: John Robinson Pierce · 1964: Não concedida · 1965: Walker Lee Cisler · 1966: Wilmer L. Barrow · 1967: George Harold Brown · 1968: Charles F. Avila · 1969: Hendrik Wade Bode · 1970: Howard Aiken · 1971: John Wistar Simpson · 1972: William Hayward Pickering · 1973: Bernard D. H. Tellegen · 1974: Jan A. Rajchman · 1975: Sidney Darlington
1976–2000	1976: Murray Joslin · 1977: Henri Busignies · 1978: Daniel E. Noble · 1979: Albert Rose · 1980: Robert Adler · 1981: C. Chapin Cutler · 1982: Nathan Cohn · 1983: Herman P. Schwan · 1984: Eugene I. Gordon · 1985: John D. Kraus · 1986: James Flanagan · 1987: Robert A. Henle · 1988: James Ross MacDonald · 1989: Nick Holonyak · 1990: Archie W. Straiton · 1991: John Louis Moll · 1992: George D. Forney · 1993: James H. Pomerene · 1994: Leslie A. Geddes · 1995: Robert W. Lucky · 1996: Floyd Dunn · 1997: Esther M. Conwell · 1998: Rolf Landauer · 1999: Kees Schouhamer Immink · 2000: Jun-ichi Nishizawa
2001–atualidade	2001: Robert Heath Dennard · 2002: Edward E. Hammer · 2003: Não concedida · 2004: Federico Capasso · 2005: Peter Lawrenson · 2006: Fawwaz T. Ulaby · 2007: Russel D. Dupuis · 2008: Dov Frohman · 2009: Tingye Li · 2010: Ray Dolby

v • e Nobel de Física (1901 — 2011)
1901 — 1925	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen • Hendrik Lorentz e Pieter Zeeman • Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie e Marie Curie • John William Strutt • Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard • Joseph John Thomson • Albert Abraham Michelson • Gabriel Lippmann • Guglielmo Marconi e Karl Ferdinand Braun • Johannes Diderik van der Waals • Wilhelm Wien • Nils Gustaf Dalén • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes • Max von Laue • William Henry Bragg e William Lawrence Bragg • Charles Glover Barkla • Max Planck • Johannes Stark • Charles Edouard Guillaume • Albert Einstein • Niels Bohr • Robert Andrews Millikan • Karl Siegbahn • James Franck e Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1926 — 1950	Jean Baptiste Perrin • Arthur Holly Compton e Charles Thomson Rees Wilson • Owen Willans Richardson • Louis de Broglie • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman • Werner Karl Heisenberg • Erwin Schrödinger e Paul Dirac • James Chadwick • Victor Franz Hess e Carl David Anderson • Clinton Davisson e George Paget Thomson • Enrico Fermi • Ernest Orlando Lawrence • Otto Stern • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Wolfgang Pauli • Percy Williams Bridgman • Edward Victor Appleton • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett • Hideki Yukawa • Cecil Frank Powell
1951 — 1975	John Douglas Cockcroft e Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton • Felix Bloch e Edward Mills Purcell • Frits Zernike • Max Born e Walther Bothe • Willis Eugene Lamb e Polykarp Kusch • William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen e Walter Houser Brattain • Chen Ning Yang e Tsung-Dao Lee • Pavel Cherenkov, Illia Mikhailovich Frank e Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm • Emilio Gino Segrè e Owen Chamberlain • Donald Arthur Glaser • Robert Hofstadter e Rudolf Mössbauer • Lev Landau • Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer e J. Hans D. Jensen • Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Basov e Aleksandr Prokhorov • Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger e Richard Feynman • Alfred Kastler • Hans Bethe • Luis Walter Alvarez • Murray Gell-Mann • Hannes Alfvén e Louis Eugène Félix Néel • Dennis Gabor • John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper e John Robert Schrieffer • Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever e Brian David Josephson • Martin Ryle e Antony Hewish • Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson e Leo James Rainwater
1976 — 2000	Burton Richter e Samuel Chao Chung Ting • Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott e John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias e Robert Woodrow Wilson • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam e Steven Weinberg • James Watson Cronin e Val Logsdon Fitch • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow e Kai Siegbahn • Kenneth G. Wilson • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar e William Alfred Fowler • Carlo Rubbia e Simon van der Meer • Klaus von Klitzing • Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig e Heinrich Rohrer • Johannes Georg Bednorz e Karl Alexander Müller • Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz e Jack Steinberger • Norman Foster Ramsey, Hans Georg Dehmelt e Wolfgang Paul • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall e Richard Edward Taylor • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes • Georges Charpak • Russell Alan Hulse e Joseph Hooton Taylor • Bertram Neville Brockhouse e Clifford Glenwood Shull • Martin Lewis Perl e Frederick Reines • David Morris Lee, Douglas Dean Osheroff e Robert Coleman Richardson • Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji e William Daniel Phillips • Robert Betts Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer e Daniel Chee Tsui • Gerardus 't Hooft e Martinus J. G. Veltman • Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer e Jack Kilby
2001 — 2010	Eric Allin Cornell, Carl Wieman e Wolfgang Ketterle • Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba e Riccardo Giacconi • Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg e Anthony Leggett • David Gross, Hugh David Politzer e Frank Wilczek • Roy Glauber, John Lewis Hall e Theodor Hänsch • John Mather e George Fitzgerald Smoot III • Albert Fert e Peter Grünberg • Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi e Toshihide Masukawa • Charles Kao, Willard Boyle e George Smith • Andre Geim e Konstantin Novoselov • Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess e Brian Schmidt

Medalha Hughes (1902 — 2008)

1902: Joseph John Thomson 1903: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf 1904: Joseph Wilson Swan 1905: Augusto Righi 1906: Hertha Marks Ayrton 1907: Ernest Howard Griffiths 1908: Eugen Goldstein 1909: Richard Glazebrook 1910: John Ambrose Fleming 1911: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1912: William Duddell 1913: Alexander Graham Bell 1914: John Sealy Townsend 1915: Paul Langevin 1916: Elihu Thomson 1917: Charles Glover Barkla 1918: Irving Langmuir 1919: Charles Chree 1920: Owen Willans Richardson 1921: Niels Bohr 1922: Francis William Aston 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan 1924: — 1925: Frank Edward Smith 1926: Henry Jackson 1927: William Coolidge 1928: Maurice de Broglie 1929: Hans Geiger 1930: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1931: William Lawrence Bragg 1932: James Chadwick 1933: Edward Appleton 1934: Karl Siegbahn 1935: Clinton Davisson 1936: Walter H. Schottky 1937: Ernest Lawrence 1938: John Cockcroft e Ernest Walton 1939: George Paget Thomson 1940: Arthur Holly Compton 1941: Nevill Francis Mott 1942: Enrico Fermi 1943: Marcus Oliphant 1944: George Finch 1945: Basil Schonland 1946: John Randall 1947: Frédéric Joliot-Curie 1948: Robert Watson-Watt 1949: Cecil Powell 1950: Max Born 1951: Hendrik Anthony Kramers 1952: Philip Dee 1953: Edward Crisp Bullard 1954: Martin Ryle 1955: Harrie Massey 1956: Frederick Lindemann 1957: Joseph Proudman 1958: Edward Andrade 1959: Brian Pippard 1960: Joseph Pawsey 1961: Alan Cottrell 1962: Brebis Bleaney 1963: Frederic Williams 1964: Abdus Salam 1965: Denys Wilkinson 1966: Nicholas Kemmer 1967: Kurt Mendelssohn 1968: Freeman Dyson 1969: Nicholas Kurti 1970: David Bates 1971: Robert Hanbury Brown 1972: Brian David Josephson 1973: Peter Hirsch 1974: Peter Fowler 1975: Richard Dalitz 1976: Stephen Hawking 1977: Antony Hewish 1978: William Gemmell Cochran 1979: Robert Joseph Paton Williams 1980: Francis Farley 1981: Peter Higgs, Thomas Walter e Bannerman Kibble 1982: Drummond Matthews e Frederick Vine 1983: John Ward 1984: Roy Kerr 1985: Tony Skyrme 1986: Michael Woolfson 1987: Michael Pepper 1988: Archibald Howie e M.J. Whelan 1989: John Stewart Bell 1990: Thomas George Cowling 1991: Philip Moon 1992: Michael Seaton 1993: George Isaak 1994: Robert G. Chambers 1995: David Shoenberg 1996: Amyand Buckingham 1997: Andrew Lang 1998: Raymond Hide 1999: Alexander Boksenberg 2000: Chintamani Rao 2001: John Pethica 2002: Alexander Dalgarno 2003: Peter Edwards 2004: John Clarke 2005: Keith Moffatt 2006: Michael Kelly 2007: Artur Ekert 2008: Michele Dougherty

Medalha Matteucci (1868 — 2006)

1868 Hermann von Helmholtz 1875 Henri Victor Regnault 1876 William Thomson 1877 Gustav Kirchhoff 1878 Gustav Wiedemann 1879 Wilhelm Eduard Weber 1880 Antônio Pacinotti 1881 Emilio Villari 1882 Augusto Righi 1887 Thomas Edison 1888 Heinrich Hertz 1894 John William Strutt 1895 Henry Augustus Rowland 1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Philipp Lenard 1901 Guglielmo Marconi 1903 Albert Abraham Michelson 1904 Marie Curie e Pierre Curie 1905 Henri Poincaré 1906 James Dewar 1907 William Ramsay 1908 Antônio Garbasso 1909 Orso Mario Corbino 1910 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1911 Jean Perrin 1912 Pieter Zeeman 1913 Ernest Rutherford 1914 Max von Laue 1915 Johannes Stark 1915 William Henry Bragg e William Lawrence Bragg 1917 Antonino Lo Surdo 1918 Robert Williams Wood 1919 Henry Moseley 1921 Albert Einstein 1923 Niels Bohr 1924 Arnold Sommerfeld 1925 Robert Andrews Millikan 1926 Enrico Fermi 1927 Erwin Schrödinger 1928 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1929 Werner Heisenberg 1930 Arthur Holly Compton 1931 Franco Rasetti 1932 Frédéric Joliot-Curie e Irène Joliot-Curie 1956 Wolfgang Pauli 1975 Bruno Touschek 1978 Abdus Salam 1979 Luciano Maiani 1980 Gian Carlo Wick 1982 Rudolf Peierls 1985 Hendrik Casimir 1987 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1988 Lev Okun 1989 Freeman Dyson 1990 Jack Steinberger 1991 Bruno Rossi 1992 Anatole Abragam 1993 John Archibald Wheeler 1994 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1995 Tsung-Dao Lee 1996 Wolfgang Panofsky 1998 Oreste Piccioni 2001 Theodor Hänsch 2002 Nicola Cabibbo 2003 Manuel Cardona 2004 David Ruelle 2006 Giorgio Bellettini

Medalha ASME

1921: Hjalmar G. Carlson · 1922: Frederick A. Halsey · 1923: John Ripley Freeman · 1926: Robert Andrews Millikan · 1927: Wilfred Lewis · 1928: Julian Kennedy · 1930: W. L. R. Emmet · 1931: Albert Kinsbury · 1933: Ambrose Swasey · 1934: Willis Carrier · 1935: Charles T. Main · 1936: Edward Bausch · 1937: Edward P. Bullard Jr · 1938: Stephen J. Pigott · 1939: James E. Gleason · 1940: Charles Kettering · 1941: Theodore von Kármán · 1942: Ervin G. Bailey · 1943: Lewis K. Sillcox · 1944: Edward G. Budd · 1945: William Frederick Durand · 1946: Morris E. Leeds · 1947: Paul W. Kiefer · 1948: Frederick G. Keys · 1949: Fred L. Dornbrook · 1950: Harvey C. Knowles · 1951: Glenn B. Warren · 1952: Nevin E. Funk · 1953: Crosby Field · 1954: E. Burnley Powell · 1955: Granville M. Read · 1956: Harry Franklin Vickers · 1957: L.M.K. Boelter · 1958: Wilbur H. Armacost · 1959: Martin Frisch · 1960: C. Richard Soderberg · 1962: Philip Sporn · 1963: Igor Sikorsky · 1964: Alan Howard · 1998: Frank Kreith · 1965: Jan Burgers · 1967: Mayo D. Hersey · 1968: Samuel C. Collins · 1969: Lloyd H. Donnell · 1970: Robert Gilruth · 1971: Horace Smart Beattie · 1972: Waloddi Weibull · 1973: Christopher Kraft · 1974: Nicholas Hoff · 1975: Maxime Faget · 1976: Raymond Mindlin · 1977: Robert W. Mann · 1979: Den Hartog · 1981: Robert S. Hahn · 1983: Jack N. Binns, Sr. · 1984: Aaron Cohen · 1985: Milton C. Shaw · 1986: Orlan W. Boston · 1987: Philip G. Hodge, Jr. · 1988: Eric Reissner · 1989: William R. Sears · 1990: Harley A. Wilhelm · 1992: Daniel Drucker · 1993: Richard H. Gallagher · 1996: Robert C. Dean, Jr. · 1997: Bernard Budiansky · 1999: H. Norman Abramson · 2000: Arther E. Bergles · 2001: Warren M. Rohsenow · 2002: Leroy S. "Skip" Fletcher · 2003: Norman Ralph Augustine · 2004: Bradford W. Parkinson · 2005: Robert E. Uhrig · 2006: Richard J. Goldstein · 2007: Dean Kamen · 2008: Frank E. Talke · 2009: Suh Nam-pyo · 2010: John Abele · 2011: Clayton Daniel Mote Jr.

v • e Presidentes da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência
1848-1900	1848 William Charles Redfield · 1849 Joseph Henry · 1850 Alexander Dallas Bache · 1851 Louis Agassiz · 1852 Benjamin Peirce · 1854 James Dwight Dana · 1855 John Torrey · 1856 James Hall · 1857 Alexis Caswell · 1857 Jacob Whitman Bailey · 1858 Jeffries Wyman · 1859 Stephen Alexander · 1860 Isaac Lea · 1866 Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard · 1867 John Strong Newberry · 1868 Benjamin Apthorp Gould · 1869 John Wells Foster · 1870 Thomas Sterry Hunt · 1870 William Chauvenet · 1871 Asa Gray · 1872 John Lawrence Smith · 1873 Joseph Lovering · 1874 John Lawrence LeConte · 1875 Julius Erasmus Hilgard · 1876 William Barton Rogers · 1877 Simon Newcomb · 1878 Othniel Charles Marsh · 1879 George Frederick Barker · 1880 Lewis Henry Morgan · 1881 George Jarvis Brush · 1882 John William Dawson · 1883 Charles Augustus Young · 1884 John Peter Lesley · 1885 Hubert Anson Newton · 1886 Edward S. Morse · 1887 Samuel Pierpont Langley · 1888 John Wesley Powell · 1889 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall · 1890 George Lincoln Goodale · 1891 Albert Benjamin Prescott · 1892 Joseph LeConte · 1893 William Harkness · 1894 Daniel Garrison Brinton · 1895 Edward Morley · 1896 Theodore Nicholas Gill · 1896 Edward Drinker Cope · 1897 Wolcott Gibbs · 1897 William John McGee · 1898 Frederic Ward Putnam · 1899 Grove Karl Gilbert · 1899 Marcus Benjamin · 1899 Edward Orton, Sr. · 1900 Robert Simpson Woodward
1901-1925	1901 Charles Sedgwick Minot · 1902 Ira Remsen · 1902 Asaph Hall · 1903 Carroll Davidson Wright · 1904 William Gilson Farlow · 1905 Calvin Milton Woodward · 1906 William Henry Welch · 1907 Edward Leamington Nichols · 1908 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin · 1909 David Starr Jordan · 1910 Albert Abraham Michelson · 1911 Charles Bessey · 1912 Edward Charles Pickering · 1913 Edmund Beecher Wilson · 1914 Charles W. Eliot · 1915 William Wallace Campbell · 1916 Charles R. Van Hise · 1917 Theodore William Richards · 1918 John Merle Coulter · 1919 Simon Flexner · 1920 Leland Ossian Howard · 1921 Eliakim Hastings Moore · 1922 James Playfair McMurrich · 1923 Charles Doolittle Walcott · 1924 James McKeen Cattell · 1925 Michael Pupin
1926-1950	1926 Liberty Hyde Bailey · 1927 Arthur Amos Noyes · 1928 Henry F. Osborn · 1929 Robert Andrews Millikan · 1930 Thomas Hunt Morgan · 1931 Franz Boas · 1932 John Jacob Abel · 1933 Henry N. Russell · 1934 Edward L. Thorndike · 1935 Karl T. Compton · 1936 Edwin Conklin · 1937 George D. Birkhoff · 1938 Wesley C. Mitchell · 1939 Walter B. Cannon · 1940 Albert F. Blakeslee · 1941 Irving Langmuir · 1942 Arthur H. Compton · 1943 Isaiah Bowman · 1944 Anton J. Carlson · 1945 James B. Conant · 1946 Charles Kettering · 1947 Harlow Shapley · 1948 Edmund Ware Sinnott · 1949 Elvin Charles Stakman · 1950 Roger Adams
1951-1975	1951 Kirtley Fletcher Mather · 1952 Detlev Bronk · 1953 Edward Condon · 1954 Warren Weaver · 1955 George Beadle · 1956 Paul Sears · 1957 Lawrence Hasbrouck Snyder · 1958 Wallace Reed Brode · 1959 Paul Ernest Klopsteg · 1960 Chauncey Depew Leake · 1961 Thomas Park · 1962 Paul Magnus Gross · 1963 Alan Tower Waterman · 1964 Laurence M. Gould · 1965 Henry Eyring · 1966 Alfred Sherwood Romer · 1967 Don Krasher Price · 1968 Walter Orr Roberts · 1969 Bentley Glass · 1970 Athelstan Spilhaus · 1971 Mina Rees · 1972 Glenn Theodore Seaborg · 1973 Leonard M. Rieser · 1974 Roger Revelle · 1975 Margaret Mead
1976-2000	1976 William D. McElroy · 1977-1978 Emilio Q. Daddario · 1979 Edward E. David Jr. · 1980 Kenneth Ewart Boulding · 1981 Frederick Mosteller · 1982 David Allan Bromley · 1983 Margaret Burbidge · 1984 Anna J. Harrison · 1985 David A. Hamburg · 1986 Gerard Piel · 1987 Lawrence Bogorad · 1988 Sheila E. Widnall · 1989 Walter E. Massey · 1990 Richard C. Atkinson · 1991 Donald N. Langenberg · 1992 Leon Max Lederman · 1993 Frank Sherwood Rowland · 1994 Eloise E. Clark · 1995 Francisco J. Ayala · 1996 Rita R. Colwell · 1997 Jane Lubchenco · 1998 Mildred Dresselhaus · 1999 M. R. C. Greenwood · 2000 Stephen Jay Gould
2001-presente	2001 Mary L. Good · 2002 Peter H. Raven · 2003 Floyd E. Bloom · 2004 Mary Ellen Avery · 2005 Shirley Ann Jackson · 2006 Gil Omenn · 2007 John Holdren · 2008 David Baltimore · 2009 James J. McCarthy · 2010 Peter Agre · 2011 Alice S. Huang · 2012 Nina Fedoroff · 2013 William H. Press