Sloan Research Fellowship

The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.

Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Awards were later added in neuroscience (1972), economics (1980), computer science (1993), computational and evolutionary molecular biology (2002), and ocean sciences or earth systems sciences (2012). Winners of these two-year fellowships are awarded $75,000, which may be spent on any expense supporting their research. From 2012 through 2020, the foundation awarded 126 research fellowships each year; in 2021, 128 were awarded, and 118 were awarded in 2022.

Eligibility and selection

To be eligible, a candidate must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and must be a member of the faculty of a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada. The candidate must have teaching responsibilities and must be tenure-track but untenured as of September 15 of the nomination year. Only candidates with letters of nomination from department heads or other senior researchers are considered.

The foundation has been supportive of scientists who are parents by allowing them extra time after their doctorate during which they remain eligible for the award.

An independent committee of distinguished scientists in each field selects the fellows based upon their research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their chosen field.

Since the inaugural class of 1955, 6,144 fellowships have been awarded, with faculty from the top ten universities representing over 35% of all fellows. MIT counts the most fellows at 309, followed by Berkeley at 291, Harvard at 242, Stanford at 237, and Princeton at 236.

InstitutionFellows (1955–2022)Massachusetts Institute of Technology309University of California, Berkeley291Harvard University242Stanford University237Princeton University236The University of Chicago204University of California, Los Angeles176Columbia University172Cornell University159California Institute of Technology154

Notable award recipients Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 53 fellows have won a Nobel Prize, and 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.

Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates Name Field Sloan year Prize yearRichard Feynman Physics 1955 1965Murray Gell-Mann Physics 1957 1969Leon N. Cooper Physics 1959 1972Sheldon Glashow Physics 1962 1979Steven Weinberg Physics 1961 1979Val L. Fitch Physics 1960 1980James W. Cronin Physics 1962 1980Kenneth G. Wilson Physics 1963 1982Jack Steinberger Physics 1958 1988Melvin Schwartz Physics 1959 1988Frederick Reines Physics 1959 1995Alan J. Heeger Chemistry 1963 2000 (Physics)Carl E. Wieman Physics 1984 2001David J. Gross Physics 1970 2004H. David Politzer Physics 1977 2004Frank Wilczek Physics 1976 2004Theodor W. Hänsch Physics 1973 2005Donna Strickland Physics 1998 2018Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1966 1981Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry 1959 1986Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1969 1986John C. Polanyi Chemistry 1959 1986Elias J. Corey Chemistry 1955 1990Rudolph A. Marcus Chemistry 1960 1992Mario J. Molina Chemistry 1976 1995Robert F. Curl, Jr. Chemistry 1961 1996Richard E. Smalley Chemistry 1978 1996Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry 1978 1999Alan G. MacDiarmid Chemistry 1959 2000K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry 1973 2001Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 1974 2005Richard R. Schrock Chemistry 1976 2005Martin Karplus Chemistry 1959 2013Arieh Warshel Chemistry 1978 2013John Forbes Nash Mathematics 1956 1994 (Economics)Eric Maskin Economics 1983 2007Roger Myerson Economics 1984 2007Alvin E. Roth Economics 1984 2012Lars Peter Hansen Economics 1982 2013Jean Tirole Economics 1985 2014Stanley Prusiner Neuroscience 1976 1997 (Medicine)Paul Lauterbur Chemistry 1965 2003 (Medicine)Linda B. Buck Neuroscience 1992 2004 (Medicine)John Milnor Mathematics 1955 1962Paul Cohen Mathematics 1962 1966Stephen Smale Mathematics 1960 1966Heisuke Hironaka Mathematics 1962 1970John G. Thompson Mathematics 1961 1970David Mumford Mathematics 1962 1974Charles Fefferman Mathematics 1970 1978Daniel G. Quillen Mathematics 1967 1978William Thurston Mathematics 1974 1982Shing-Tung Yau Mathematics 1974 1982Michael H. Freedman Mathematics 1980 1986Vaughan Jones Mathematics 1983 1990Curtis T. McMullen Mathematics 1988 1998Andrea M. Ghez Physics 1996 2020Vladimir Voevodsky Mathematics 1997 2002Andrei Okounkov Mathematics 2000 2006Terence Tao Mathematics 1999 2006David MacMillan Chemistry 2002 2021Guido Imbens Economics 1995 2021Moungi Bawendi Chemistry 1994 2023John Hopfield Physics 1962 2024

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