NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
TypeMedal
CountryUnited States
Presented bythe National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EligibilityGovernment employees and non-government personnel
StatusActive
EstablishedSeptember 15, 1961
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Ribbon
Precedence
Next (higher)Exceptional Achievement Medal
Exceptional Service Medal
Outstanding Service Medal (obsolete)
EquivalentExceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal
Exceptional Administrative Achievement Medal
Equal Employment Opportunity Medal
Next (lower)Exceptional Bravery Medal

The NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (abbrv. ESAM) was established by NASA on September 15, 1961, when the original ESM was divided into three separate awards. Under its guidelines, the ESAM is awarded for unusually significant scientific contribution toward achievement of aeronautical or space exploration goals. This award may be given for individual efforts that have resulted in a contribution of fundamental importance in this field, or have significantly enhanced understanding of this field.[1]

Recipients (incomplete list)

  • 1962 – Robert E. Bourdeau
  • 1963 – John Houbolt
  • 1965 – Jack N. James
  • 1966 – Richard Franz Joseph Arenstorf (He was awarded the medal for his contributions to the Space Navigation and the Apollo Lunar Landing Program.[2]
  • 1968 – G. Mervin Ault
  • 1969 – Charles Berry, William F. Brown, Thomas Canning, Moustafa Chahine, Hong-Yee Chiu, Clarence Cone, James Downey, Erwin Fehlberg, Richard Green, Rudolf Hanel, Webb Haymaker, Gerhard B. Heller, Harvey Hubbard, James Humphreys, Mark Kelly, James Kupperian, Dale Lumb, Wolfgang Moeckel, Paul Muller, Robert Naumann, William O'Bryant, George Pieper, Henry Plotkin, Joseph Randall, Donald Rea, Nancy Roman, Lee Scherer, William Sjorgen, Charles Sonett, Robert Stone, David Wark, Richard Whitcomb, Donald Wise
  • 1970 – William Angele, James R. Arnold, Paul Coleman, Leverett Davis, Milner Eskew, Herbert Friedman, Paul Gast, Peter Macdoran, Warren Martin, Maurice Morin, Marcia Neugebauer, Edward Perkins, Edward Smith, Conway Snyder, Nelson Spencer, Patrick Thaddeus, Robert Walker, Gerald Wasserburg
  • 1971 – John C. Freche
  • 1972 – Robert Steinbacher,[3] Thomas C. Duxbury, Charles H. Acton, George Robert Carruthers
  • 1973 – William A. Fischer, Founder & Sr. Scientist, EROS Space Program; Recipient of the US Distinguished Service Award & many others. [Conway B. Leovy][4]
  • 1974 – John A. Simpson,[5] William Edgar Thornton[6] August F. Witt, Carolyn L. Huntoon
  • 1975 – Edward Purdy Ney
  • 1976 – Tito T. Serafini
  • 1977 – Janos K. Lanyi
  • 1978 – Elihu Boldt, Hale Bradt, Herbert Friedman, Gordon Garmire, Herbert Gursky, Walter Lewin, Frank McDonald, Laurence Peterson,[7] Alvin Seiff, Robert Tolson
  • 1979 – Milton Halem
  • 1980 – Riccardo Giacconi (2002 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
  • 1981 – Andrew Ingersoll, Talivaldis Spalvins
  • 1982 – Mary Helen Johnston, Jeff Cuzzi, James V. Taranik
  • 1983 – Joel S. Levine[8][9]
  • 1984 – Donald B. Campbell, Fred Gillett, James R. Houck, Frank Low[10]
  • 1985 – Prem Chand Pandey, SAC/ISRO, NCAOR and IIT Kharagpur, India, Parviz Moin
  • 1986 – Jeff Cuzzi, Crofton B. Farmer, Frank J. Grunthaner, Taylor G. Wang
  • 1988 – Nitza Margarita Cintrón, Hal A. Weaver, Michael J. Mumma
  • 1989 – Mario Molina (1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry),[11] Donald J. Kessler, Inez Fung[12]
  • 1990 – Charles M. Telesco, John W. Harvey,[13] Martin A. Pomerantz
  • 1991 – Khairul B. M. Q. Zaman, John C. Mather (2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Manuel D. Salas, Roy W. Spencer, John Christy
  • 1992 – Charles L. Bennett, John C.Brandt, Edward S. Cheng, Donald D. Clayton, Holland C. Ford, Edward J. Groth, Richard J. Harms, Sara E. Heap, Peter Jakobson, William H. Jefferys, Thomas Kelsall, Michael D. King, Tod R. Lauer,[14] David S. Leckrone, F. Duccio Macchetto, Stephan S. Meyers, S. Harvey Moseley, Thomas L. Murdock, Ruth Pater,[15] Michael J. Prather, Richard A. Shafer, Robert F. Silverberg, Wei-kuo Tao, James A. Westphal, Ray J. Weymann, Edward L. Wright, James A. DiCarlo, Nathan S. Jacobson, George Smoot (2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
  • 1993 – Rebecca A. MacKay
  • 1994 – Robert A. Bindschadler, Theodore E. Bunch, Emmett W. Chappelle, Malcolm M. Cohen, Dale P. Cruikshank, Hay C. Hardin, Alice K. Harding, Donald Horan, Winifred M. Huo, Isabella T. Lewis, Erick Malaret, Camden McCarl, Robert Riesse, Piers J. Sellers, Trevor C. Sorensen, Thomas A. Zang Jr.
  • 1995 – James L. Smialek, Maria T. Zuber, Robert D. Moser
  • 1996 – Kevin Zahnle, Carolyn Shoemaker, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
  • 1997 – James O. Arnold, David H. Atkinson, David H. Bailey, John E. Carlstrom, Ara Chutjian, John W. Connell, Harald M. Fischer, Everett K. Gibson Jr., William L. Grose, Marshall K. Joy, Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta, Louis J. Lanzerotti, David S. McKay, Michael J. Mumma, Hasso B. Niemann, Glenn S. Orton, Peter A. Pilewskie, Carolyn Purvis, Boris Ragent, Alvin Seiff, Lawrence Sromovsky, Ulf von Zahn, Richard N. Zare
  • 1998 – Narottam P. Bansal, Timothy J. Lee
  • 1999 – Jeff Cuzzi, Martin Weisskopf
  • 2000 – Hugh J. Christian Jr., Joan Feynman, Mona J. Hagyard, Yoram J. Kaufman, Ellis E. Remsberg
  • 2002 – Thomas P. Charlock, Gilles Peltzer
  • 2003 – Philip R. Christensen, Jean O. Dickey, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Martin G. Mlynczak, Ronald L. Moore, Richard F. Mushotzky, Eric Rignot, Farid Salama, Wei-Kuo Tao
  • 2004 – Charles L. Bennett, Randall G. Hulet, David P. Kratz, Steven J. Ostro, Thomas L. Sever, Chris R. Webster, Yuk-ling Yung
  • 2005 – Ichiro Fukumori, James R. Houck, Nicholas Leventis, Steven Suess, Michael Watkins
  • 2006 – Michael F. A’Hearn, David Charbonneau, Drake Deming, Neil Gehrels, John Le Marshall, Edward C. Stone, Tod Strohmayer, Larry W. Thomason
  • 2007 – Scott Braun, Donald Brownlee, Joan Centrella, Moustafa Chahine, Mark S. Marley, Eric Rignot, Alan Title
  • 2008 – Anthony Del Genio, David G. Fischer, Gerald M. Heymsfield, Russell A. Howard, Ronald Kwok, Michael I. Mishchenko, Son V. Nghiem
  • 2009 – James E. Fesmire, Gilles Peltzer, Michael J. Mumma, Anne R. Douglass[16]
  • 2010 – Peter H. Smith, William V. Boynton, Heather L. Enos, Christopher R. Shinohara [17]
  • 2011 – Carl J. Grillmair, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Yuhe T. Song, Timothy J. Lee, Eric Jensen, Jason Rowe, Jeff Scargle, Cheryl A. Nickerson
  • 2013 – David Paige
  • 2014 – Joshua Coleman, Daniel Huber
  • 2015 – Carrie M. Anderson[18]
  • 2016 – David R. Ciardi, Amy R. Winebarger, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Ignacy Telesman, Jason Rowe
  • 2017 – Sylvain Guiriec, Maria Cristina De Sanctis,[19] Samuel Gulkis,[19] Thomas H. Prettyman,[19] Michele Vallisneri,[19] Kasthuri J. Venkateswaran,[19] Beth Lewandowski[20]
  • 2018 – Susan E. Mullally, Michael B. Stenger, Adolfo Figueroa Vinas, Gordon Holman, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Richard Ray, M. Cristina De Sanctis, Walter A. Petersen, Michael Russell
  • 2019 – John D. Bolten, Carl R. Devore, Alex Glocer, Jonathan H. Jiang, Erin A. Kara, Fei Liu, Elizabeth A. MacDonald, Amy A. Simon, Lynn B. Wilson III, Cheol Park,[21] Andreas Nathues
  • 2020 – Renee C. Weber,[22] Zaven Arzoumanian
  • 2021 – John Baross,[23] Eli Dwek, Floyd William Stecker, Xu Liu, Eleonora Troja
  • 2022 – Sibasish Laha, Jane Rigby, Michael McElwain, Charles Nickolos Arge[23]
  • 2023 –Hongbin Yu, Koji Mukai, Glyn Collinson, Pankaj Kumar[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal", webpage of the Orders and Medals Society of America. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
  2. ^ The Tennessean, Nashville, TN. Sunday, 28 Sep 2014
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  11. ^ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (October 11, 1995). "MIT's Mario Molina wins Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovery of ozone depletion". Retrieved 2008-05-31.
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  17. ^ "NASA Bestows Honors on UA Phoenix Mars Mission Members". UANews.org. 2010-06-15. Archived from the original on December 4, 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  22. ^ "NASA Honor Awards Ceremony" (PDF).
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