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Brookhaven scientists and other researchers associated with the Laboratory’s world-class facilities have won numerous awards of national and international significance. The following listing includes only a few of the most prestigious awards won by Brookhaven scientists. (See this link for detailed descriptions of the Nobel Prizes won by Brookhaven scientists.)

Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

National Medal of Science

  • 1665 Donald D. Van Slyke
  • 1983 Maurice Goldhaber
  • 2002 Raymond Davis Jr.
  • 2002 James Glimm ***
  • 2008 Joanna Fowler

Enrico Fermi Award

  • 1986 Ernest Courant and M. Stanley Livingston
  • 1987 Gerald Tape
  • 1988 Richard Setlow
  • 1998 Maurice Goldhaber
  • 2002 Raymond Davis Jr.

Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics

  • 1991 Maurice Goldhaber
  • 2000 Raymond Davis Jr.

Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

  • 1969 George Cotzias

Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award

  • 1963 Herbert Kouts
  • 1964 Jacob Bigeleisen
  • 1970 Joseph Hendrie
  • 1977 F. William Studier
  • 1980 Nicholas Samios
  • 1980 Benno Schoenborn
  • 1981 Martin Blume
  • 1984 John Dunn
  • 1985 Betsy Sutherland
  • 1988 Joseph Wall
  • 1998 Joanna Fowler

One of the greatest honors for an American scientist is to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The following active and retired BNL staff are members of the academy:

Jacob Bigeleisen
Praveen Chaudari
Ernest Courant
Eugene Cronkite
Raymond Davis Jr.
Joanna Fowler 		Gerhart Friedlander
Gertrude Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber
Nicholas Samios
Richard Setlow 		Gen Shirane
F. William Studier
Norman Sutin
Alfred Wolf

 

Additionally, the following Brookhaven staff are members of the National Academy of Engineering:

Seymour Baron
Praveen Chaudari
Joseph Hendrie
Herbert Kouts
Warren Winsche

 

* Affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory at time of award

** Affiliated with Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; used Brookhaven’s National Synchrotron Light Source for prize-winning research.

*** Joint scientific staff appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University

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Last Modified: January 27, 2010
 


DOE, Office of ScienceOne of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation of State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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