The Albert Einstein World Award for Science is a yearly award given by the World Cultural Council "as a means of recognition, and as an incentive to scientific and technological research and development", with special consideration for researches which "have brought true benefit and well being to mankind".

The award has been named after Albert Einstein and includes a diploma, a commemorative medal, and $10,000. Albert Einstein, photographed by Oren J. Turner in 1947. ... This article is about general United States currency. ...

Winners

2006 : Dave (deceased)

2005 : Bob

2004 : Ralph J. Cicerone

2003 : Martin Rees

2002 : Daniel H. Janzen

2001 : Niels Birbaumer

2000 : Frank Fenner

1999 : Robert Weinberg

1998 : Charles R. Goldman

1997 : Jean-Marie Ghuysen

1996 : Alec Jeffreys

1995 : Herbert H. Jasper

1994 : Sherwood Rowland

1993 : Ali Javan

1992 : Raymond U . Lemieux

1991 : Albert Fleckenstein

1990 : Gustav Nossal

1989 : Martin Kamen

1988 : Margaret Burbidge

1987 : Hugh Huxley

1986 : Monkombu S. Swaminathan

1985 : Werner Stumm

1984 : Ricardo Bressani

Ralph J. Cicerone is an American atmospheric scientist, the chancellor of UC Irvine, and was elected president of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. ... The Right Honourable Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy. ... Daniel H. Janzen (b. ... Dr Frank Fenner (born 1914) is an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. ... Category: ... Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS, (born in 9 January 1950 at Luton in Bedfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. ... Franklin Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is a Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. ... Ali Javan (born in 1928 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He invented the gas laser in 1960. ... Dr. Raymond Urgel Lemieux was a Canadian biochemist, who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. ... Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal (born June 4, 1931 in Vienna, Austria) is a distinguished Australian research scientist. ... Martin David Kamen (1913 - 2002), was co-discoverer (with Sam Ruben) of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27th, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. ... Margaret Burbidge (nee Eleanor Margaret Peachey) (born August 12, 1919) is a British astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ... Hugh Esmor Huxley(born February 25, 1924)-is a professor of biology at Brandeis University. ...

See also

• Prizes named after people

This is a list of prizes that are named after people. ...

External links

• Official site