National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by a President of the United States to individuals in science together with engineering who gain made important contributions to the advancement of cognition in the fields of behavioral together with social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. The twelve constituent presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science is responsible for selecting award recipients and is administered by the National Science Foundation NSF.

Recipients

Since Caltech professor Theodore von Kármán received the first medal in 1962, a result of 506 medals earn been awarded, with just eight universities accounting for over 39% of the total. By institutional affiliation at the time of the award, Stanford University counts the near medals at 39, with Harvard University close unhurried at 35, followed by the University of California, Berkeley at 30, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 28, and the California Institute of Technology at 25.