NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

The NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing ( National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing ) is one of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 1979 award annual science prize for special achievements in the field of systematic reviews ( scientific review).

The award is sponsored by Annual Reviews, Thomson Reuters and The Scientist and awarded in memory of J. Murray Luck.

Award winners

  • 2014 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Human Sciences ): For her insightful and visionary synthesis of a broad range of data and concepts from across the social and biological sciences to illuminate the, importance of Biosocial processes among mothers, infants, and other social actors in forming the evolutionary crucible of human societies.
  • 2013 Bruce Kleiner and John Lott (mathematics): For their joint explication of Perelman 's solution of the Poincaré Conjecture Celebrated; the Kleiner / Lott presentation what instrumental in making the solution accessible to the mathematical community, and, as the first detailed scientific presentation, played a Crucial role in the verification of the solution.
  • 2012 Larry R. Squire ( Neuroscience ): For his prolific Contributions of reviews on the organization of and history of research on memory systems, for editing text books on neuroscience and learning and memory and biographies of the leaders of neuroscience research, and for contributing Numerous facebook reviews, Which have Provided a valuable resource for neuroscientists and Has Made the study of learning and memory accessible to a broad audience.
  • 2011 Thomas J. Sargent ( economics ): For his pathbreaking books did integrate dynamic macroeconomic models under uncertainty with time series econometric methods, Which have informed and enlightened a generation of economic Researchers.
  • 2010 John Alroy ( Earth Sciences ): For Developing the Paleobiology Database, Which Has produced at extraordinarily extensive synthesis of paleontological data did HAS BEEN driving the field of paleobiology forward in ways did would havebeen added anonymously impossible.
  • 2009 Roger W. Hendrix (genetics ): Hendrix 's reviews, overviews, and mini reviews have focused research in the areas of structure, assembly, and genomics of Bacteriophages and include Numerous original and provocative ideas.
  • Alejandro Portes 2008 (Social and Political Sciences ): for Contributions to the understanding of immigrant and transnational communities through penetrating reviews in the areas of immigration, education, globalization, and social capital.
  • 2007 Geoffrey R. Burbidge ( astronomy): for Contributions as editor of The Annual Review of Astronomy from 1974 to 2004, using his vast knowledge to make it the premier astronomy review journal worldwide.
  • 2006 Peter Vitousek ( Environmental Sciences ): For his scholarly and inspirational book and reviews on nitrogen cycling and its role in the evolving patterns of ecosystem productivity and diversity.
  • Daniel L. Schacter 2005 (psychology ): For his Numerous books and reviews, Which illuminate and explain the psychology and neuroscience of human memory for Specialists, scientific colleagues, and the public.
  • 2004 Donald G. Truhlar ( Physical Chemistry ): For his incisive reviews on transition - state theory, potential energy surfaces, quantum scattering theory, and solvation models, Which have informed and enlightened the chemical physics community for a generation.
  • 2003 Stuart H. Hurlbert (ecology ): For his lively reviews of species diversity, experimental design, keystone species, and other issues in ecology, Which have shaped the work of generations of ecologists.
  • 2002 Roy G. D' Andrade ( anthropology ): For his creative synthesis of intersections of anthropology with psychology and his insightful interpretations of historical trends shaping the future goals of anthropology.
  • 2001 Milton W. Cole ( material science): For his valued reviews and monographs Which have critically Assessed and inspired novel research Concerning electrons and films at surfaces.
  • 2000 Charles F. Stevens ( Neuroscience ): For his numerous " News and Views " articles in Nature that, for more than a decade, reviewed nearly all the major advances in molecular neuroscience.
  • 1999 James M. Poterba ( economics ): For his influential and comprehensive review of factors deterministic mining the savings of individuals over Their lifetimes and the private accumulation of wealth for retirement.
  • 1998 James R. Holton ( Geology / Geophysics ): For his landmark Which reviews have become the primary corner stones of the current understanding of dynamical meteorology of the earth 's stratosphere FOR BOTH Researchers and students.
  • 1997 Paul Harvey ( evolutionary biology ): For his many influential reviews embracing all aspects of evolutionary biology, and particularly for bringing evolutionary perspectives to other areas of biological investigation.
  • 1996 Jeffrey S. Banks ( Social and Political Sciences ): For his influential reviews of work on the theory of games of incomplete formation, theory of automata, and the theory of repeated play games As They apply to political relationships, as well as for his extensive editorial work.
  • 1995 Robion C. Kirby ( mathematics): For his list of problems in low- dimensional topology and his tireless maintenance of it; several generations have been greatly Influenced by Kirby 's list.
  • 1994 Thomas M. Jessell ( Developmental Biology): For his Contributions, by writing and editing reviews, to bridging the fields of developmental neurobiology and developmental biology.
  • 1993 Janet Taylor Spence (psychology ): For her pervasive and generative influence upon Virtually all of the contemporary, scientific literature of psychology as editor, author, and policy maker.
  • 1992 Robert T. Watson (chemistry): For his leading international reviews of stratospheric ozone research, Which have served as the basis for industrial and governmental Decisions to regulate the atmospheric emissions of chlorofluorocarbons.
  • 1991 Alexander N. Glazer ( Botany): For his lucid, enthusiastic, informative, and gracefully written reviews explaining the structure and operational of phycobilisomes, the phycobiliprotein complexes did harvest light for photosynthesis in cyanobacteria.
  • 1990 James N. Spuhler ( anthropology ): For his reviews, Which used population genetics to illuminate seeking anthropological questions as race and intelligence, the biological and cultural components of language, "scientific creationism " relationships among species, and the timetable of human evolution.
  • 1989 Sidney R. Coleman (physics): For his lucid, insightful, and influential reviews on Partially conserved currents, gauge theories, instantons, and magnetic monopoles - subjects fundamental to field theory and particle physics.
  • Eric R. Kandel 1988 (Cell Biology): For his reviews Relating findings in simple systems to Those Obtained in higher forms, Which have greatly Influenced modern study of the cellular basis of learning.
  • 1987 Gardner Lindzey (psychology ): For 40 years He Has Aimed his critical eye at the current work in personality psychology, social psychology, and behavioral genetics, always balancing a talent for synthesis with a seasoned researcher 's sense of complexity.
  • 1986 Virginia Trimble ( astronomy): For Informing and enlightening the astronomical community by her Numerous, comprehensive, scholarly, and literate reviews, Which have elucidated many complex astrophysical questions.
  • 1985 Ira Herskowitz (biochemistry ): For his incisive reviews of phage biology, Both literary and pictorial, thathavegone focused and enlivened Their subject for Practitioners and spectators alike.
  • 1984 Ernest R. Hilgard (psychology ): For his creative synthesis of the literature on conditioning and learning theory, Which shaped the development of the field for several Decades, and for his subsequent offer application Of Those same skills to the difficult areas of hypnosis, suggestability, and consciousness.
  • 1983 Michael E. Fisher ( Critical phenomenon ): For his continuing sequence of reviews did put into proper perspective discoveries Concerning critical phenomena and defined the fundamental problems he and others subsequently resolved.
  • 1982 Victor A. McKusick (genetics ): For the preparation of rigorous and comprehensive reviews, Which have stimulated and guided the Entire field of human genetic research in basic and clinical Both its aspects.
  • 1981 John S. Chipman ( economics ): For his outstanding Contributions to economic thought, particularly his highly acclaimed surveys of economic theory on international trade, welfare economics, and the Paretian heritage.
  • 1980 W. Conyers Herring ( Applied Physics ): For a career of service to the scientific community and particularly its literature review.
  • 1979 Alan G. Robinson ( pharmacology ): For his insightful Contributions to the recognition of the pervasive biological, importance of cyclic adenosine monophosphate.
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