The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is annually awarded to author(s) of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science. Established in 1923, funded by Newcomb Cleveland who remained anonymous until his death in 1951, and for this period it was known as the AAAS Thousand Dollar Prize. "The prize was inspired by Mr. Cleveland's belief that it was the scientist who counted and who needed the encouragement an unexpected monetary award could give." The present rules were instituted in 1975, previously it had gone to the author(s) of noteworthy papers, representing an outstanding contribution to science, presented in a regular session, sectional or societal, during the AAAS Annual Meeting. It is now sponsored by the Fodor Family Trust and includes a prize of $25,000.
The prize's current sponsorship has a notable connection to a past winner: Stephen P. A. Fodor, founder of Affymetrix, received the prize in 1990 for a paper introducing microarray technology. Affymetrix added its support to the prize in 2003, more than doubling its monetary value at the time. Winners receive a bronze medal, a share of the prize money, and reimbursement for travel to the AAAS Annual Meeting. Final selection is determined by a panel of distinguished scientists appointed by the editor-in-chief of Science. The annual contest period runs from the first issue of June through the last issue of the following May. No prize was awarded in 1942–1945, 1948, 1973, 1975, or 1976.https://www.aaas.org/awards/newcomb-cleveland-prize/abouthttps://www.aaas.org/awards/newcomb-cleveland-prize/recipients
Recipients List of winners
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YearAuthorsTitle2023Simon C. Stähler et al.Seismic Detection of the Martian Core2022Timo H. J. Niedermeyer, Susan B. Wilde et al.Hunting the eagle killer: A cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes vacuolar myelinopathy2021K. W. Bannister, A. T. Deller, C. Phillips, J.-P. Macquart, J. X. Prochaska, N. Tejos, S. D. Ryder, E. M. Sadler, R. M. Shannon, S. Simha, C. K. Day, M. McQuinn, F. O. North-Hickey, S. Bhandari, W. R. Arcus, V. N. Bennert, J. Burchett, M. Bouwhuis, R. Dodson, R. D. Ekers, W. Farah, C. Flynn, C. W. James, M. Kerr, E. Lenc, E. K. Mahony, J. O’Meara, S. Osłowski, H. Qiu1, T. Treu, V. U, T. J. Bateman, D. C.-J. Bock, R. J. Bolton, A. Brown, J. D. Bunton, A. P. Chippendale, F. R. Cooray, T. Cornwell, N. Gupta, D. B. Hayman, M. Kesteven, B. S. Koribalski, A. MacLeod, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. Neuhold, R. P. Norris, M. A. Pilawa, R.-Y. Qiao, J. Reynolds, D. N. Roxby, T. W. Shimwell, M. A. Voronkov, C. D. WilsonA single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance2019Brian Lovett, Etienne Bilgo, Souro Abel Millogo, Abel Kader Ouattarra, Issiaka Sare, Edounou Jacques Gnambani, Roch K. Dabire, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond St. LegerTransgenic Metarhizium rapidly kills mosquitoes in a malaria-endemic region of Burkina Faso2018Juan Yin, Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Sheng-Kai Liao, Liang Zhang, Ji-Gang Ren, Wen-Qi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu, Bo Li, Hui Dai, Guang-Bing Li, Qi-Ming Lu, Yun-Hong Gong, Yu Xu, Shuang-Lin Li, Feng-Zhi Li, Ya-Yun Yin, Zi-Qing Jiang, Ming Li, Jian-Jun Jia, Ge Ren, Dong He, Yi-Lin Zhou, Xiao-Xiang Zhang, Na Wang, Xiang Chang, Zhen-Cai Zhu, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, Rong Shu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jian-Yu Wang, Jian-Wei PanSatellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers2017James M. Eagan, Jun Xu, Rocco Di Girolamo, Christopher M. Thurber, Christopher Macosko, Anne M. LaPointe, Frank S. Bates, Geoffrey W. CoatesCombining polyethylene and polypropylene: Enhanced performance with PE/iPP multiblock polymers2016Robert GütigSpiking neurons can discover predictive features by aggregate-label learning2015Bi-Chang Chen, Wesley R. Legant, Kai Wang, Lin Shao, Daniel E. Milkie, Michael W. Davidson, Chris Janetopoulos, Xufeng S. Wu, John A. Hammer III, Zhe Liu, Brian P. English, Yuko Mimori-Kiyosue, Daniel P. Romero, Alex T. Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, R. Dyche Mullins, Diana M. Mitchell, Joshua N. Bembenek, Anne-Cecile Reymann, Ralph Böhme, Stephan W. Grill, Jennifer T. Wang, Geraldine Seydoux, U. Serdar Tulu, Daniel P. Kiehart, Eric Betzig2014Lulu Xie, Hogyi Kang, Qiwu Xu, Michael J. Chen, Yonghong Liao, Meenakshisundaram Thiyagarajan, John O’Donnell, Daniel J. Christensen, Charles Nicholson, Jeffrey J. Iliff, Takahiro Takano, Rashid Deane, Maiken Nedergaard2013Travis A. Jarrell, Yi Wang, Adam E. Bloniarz, Christopher A. Brittin, Meng Xu, J. Nichol Thomson, Donna G. Albertson, David H. Hall, and Scott W. Emmons2012Vincent Mourik, Kun Zuo, Sergey M. Frolov, Sébastien R. Plissard, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven2011Waseem S. Bakr, Amy Peng, M. Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Jonathon Isaiah Gillen, Simon Fölling, Lode Pollet, and Markus Greiner2010Richard E. Green, Johannes Krause, Adrian W. Briggs, Tomislav Maricic, Udo Stenzel, Martin Kircher, Nick Patterson, Heng Li, Weiwei Zhai, Markus Hsi-Yang Fritz, Nancy F. Hansen, Eric Y. Durand, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Jeffrey D. Jensen, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Can Alkan, Kay Prüfer, Matthias Meyer, Hernán A. Burbano, Jeffrey M. Good, Rigo Schultz, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Anne Butthof, Barbara Höber, Barbara Höffner, Madlen Siegemund, Antje Weihmann, Chad Nusbaum, Eric S. Lander, Carsten Russ, Nathaniel Novod, Jason Affourtit, Michael Egholm, Christine Verna, Pavao Rudan, Dejana Brajkovic, Željko Kucan, Ivan Gušic, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Liubov V. Golovanova, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Marco de la Rasilla, Javier Fortea, Antonio Rosas, Ralf W. Schmitz, Philip L. F. Johnson, Evan E. Eichler, Daniel Falush, Ewan Birney, James C. Mullikin, Montgomery Slatkin, Rasmus Nielsen, Janet Kelso, Michael Lachmann, David Reich, and Svante Pääbo2009Paul Kalas, James R. Graham, Eugene Chiang, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Mark Clampin, Edwin S. Kite, Karl Stapelfeldt, Christian Marois, and John KristChristian Marois, Bruce Macintosh, Travis Barman, Benjamin Zuckerman, Inseok Song, Jennifer Patience, David Lafrenière, and René Doyon2008Anoop Kumar, James W. Godwin, Phillip B. Gates, A. Acely Garza-Garcia, and Jeremy P. Brockes2007Hani M. El-Kaderi, Joseph R. Hunt, Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes, Adrien P. Côté, Robert E. Taylor, Michael O’Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi2006Jason R. Petta, Alexander C. Johnson, Jacob M. Taylor, Edward A. Laird, Amir Yacoby, Mikhail D. Lukin, Charles M. Marcus, Micah P. Hanson, Arthur C. Gossard2005Yuichiro K. Kato, Roberto C. Myers, Arthur C. Gossard, and David D. Awschalom2004Brian Kuhlman, Gautam Dantas, Gregory C. Ireton, Gabriele Varani, Barry L. Stoddard and David Baker2003Thomas A. Volpe, Catherine Kidner, Ira M. Hall, Grace Teng, Shiv I.S. Grewal and Robert A. MartienssenIra M. Hall, Gurumurthy D. Shankaranarayana, Ken-ichi Noma, Nabieh Ayoub, Amikam Cohen and Shiv I.S. Grewal2002Mariana Lagos-Quintana, Reinhard Rauhut, Winfried Lendeckel, and Thomas TuschlNelson C. Lau, Lee P. Lim, Earl G. Weinstein, and David P. BartelRosalind C. Lee and Victor Ambros2001Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. SteitzPoul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. SteitzMarat M. Yusupov, Gulnara Gh. Yusupova, Albion Baucom, Kate Lieberman, Thomas N. Earnest, J.H.D. Cate, and Harry F. Noller1999Mark D. Adams, Susan Celniker, Gerald M. Rubin and J. Craig Venter1998Norman Murray and Matthew Holman1997Declan A. Doyle, João Morais Cabral, Richard A. Pfuetzner, Anling Kuo, Jacqueline M. Gulbis, Steven L. Cohen, Brian T. Chait and Roderick MacKinnonRoderick MacKinnon, Steven L. Cohen, Anling Kuo, Alice Lee and Brian T. Chait1996Nicholas C. Wrighton, Francis X. Farrell, Ray Chang, Arun K. Kashyap, Francis Barbone, Linda S. Mulcahy, Dana L. Johnson, Ronald W. Barrett, Linda K. Jolliffe and William J. DowerOded Livnah, Enrico A. Stura, Dana L. Johnson, Steven A. Middleton, Linda S. Mulcahy, Nicholas C. Wrighton, William J. Dower, Linda K. Jolliffe and Ian A. WilsonYu Feng, Christopher C. Broder, Paul E. Kennedy, and Edward A. Berger1995Michael H. Anderson, Jason R. Ensher, Michael R. Matthews, Carl E. Wieman, and Eric A. Cornell1994Georg Halder, Patrick Callaerts and Walter J. Gehring1993Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, Carlo Sitori, Albert L. Hutchinson, and Alfred Y. ChoMichael F. Crommie, Christopher P. Lutz, and Donald M. Eigler1992Michael J. Mahan, James M. Slauch and John J. Mekalanos1991Paul D. Quay, Bronte Tilbrook and C.S. Wong1990Stephen P. A. Fodor, J. Leighton Read, Michael C. Pirrung, Lubert Stryer, Amy Tsai Lu, and Dennis Solas1989Margaret J. Geller, John P. Huchra1988William H. Landschulz, Peter F. Johnson and Steven L. McKnight1987Margaret A. Tolbert, Michel J. Rossi, Ripudaman Malhotra, and David M. GoldenMario Molina, Tai-Ly Tso, Luisa T. Molina, and Frank C. Y. Wang1986Arthur J. Zaug, Thomas R. CechJeremy Nathans, David S. Hogness, Darcy Thomas, Thomas P. Piantanida, Roger L. Eddy, and Thomas B. Shows1985James M. Hogle, Marie Chow and David J. Filman1984Sally M. Rigden, Thomas J. Ahrens and Edward M. Stolper1983Allan C. Spradling and Gerald M. Rubin1982Dennis G. Kleid, Douglas M. Moore, Howard L. Bachrach, Donald Bowbenko, Marvin J. Grubman, Peter D. McKercher, Donald O. Morgan, Betty H. Robertson, Barbara Small, and Daniel Yansura1981Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton1980F. N. Spiess, Kenneth C. Macdonald and twenty co-authors1979Stanton J. Peale, Patrick M. Cassen and Ray T. Reynolds1978Eric I. Knudsen, Masakazu Konishi and John D. Pettigrew1977Viking Mission scientistsfor research reports in Science 27 August, 1 October, and 17 December 1976
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