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Mayor's Award

Previous Award Recipients

Biological & Medical Sciences

2005

Wayne A. Hendrickson, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Jan L. Breslow, Professor and Laboratory Head at The Rockefeller University; Joan Massagué, Professor and Program Chair of Cancer Biology and Genetics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor at Weill-Cornell University Graduate School, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Biological & Medical Sciences

Engineering and Technology

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Public Understanding of Science and Technology

Young Investigator

Special Recognition Award

Recipients Prior to 1992

2004

Susan B. Horwitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Daniel R. Littman, New York University; Ralph M. Steinman, The Rockefeller University

2003

Matthew Scharff, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2001

Thomas M. Jessell, Columbia University

2000

Dominick Purpura, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

1999

David Sabatini, New York University School of Medicine

1998

Paul Greengard, The Rockefeller University

1997

Richard Axel, Columbia University; Gunter Blobel, The Rockefeller University

1996

Joshua Lederberg, The Rockefeller University

1995

James E. Rothman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1994

Eric R. Kandel, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

1993

David D. Ho, New York University School of Medicine

1992

Barry R. Bloom, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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Engineering & Technology

2005

Bernard Haber, Partner Emeritus at Hardest & Hanover, LLP

Technology

2003

Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

2001

Kenneth Perlin, New York University; Eugene J. Fasullo, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

2000

Gerald D. Cohen, Information Builders, Inc.

1999

Joseph Traub, Columbia University

1998

Harry Levitt, CUNY Graduate School & University Center; John F. Niblack, Pfizer, Inc.

1997

Red Burns, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

1996

Yee-Ping Wu, Music Pen, Inc.

1995

Mischa Schwartz, Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research

1994

George Bugliarello, Polytechnic University

1993

Stanley Baron, National Broadcasting Company

1992

Ralph E. Gomory, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Physical Sciences and Mathematics

2005

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Professor and Laboratory Head at The Rockefeller University; Joan S. Birman, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences

2004

Andrew J. Madja, New York University; Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University

2003

Samual Danishefsky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

2001

Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University

2000

Horst L. Stormer, Columbia University/Lucent Technologies

1999

Ronald Breslow, Columbia University

1998

Andreas Acrivos, The City College of New York/CUNY

1997

Dennis P. Sullivan, CUNY Graduate School and University Center & Queens College

1996

T. D. Lee, Columbia University

1995

Myriam P. Sarachik, The City College of New York/CUNY

1994

Charles S. Peskin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

1993

Leslie E. Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson Associates

1992

Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

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Public Understanding of Science and Technology

2004

Oliver Sachs, MD, writer and neurologist

2003

Samuel Silverstein, Columbia University

2001

Brian R. Greene, Columbia University; Martin Weiss, The New York Hall of Science

2000

John Noble Wilford, The New York Times

1999

Neil de Grasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History

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Young Investigator

2005

Hernán A. Makse, associate professor of Physics at City College of New York, CUNY
Leslie Vosshall, Assistant Professor and Laboratory Head at Rockefeller University

2004

John D. McKinney, The Rockefeller University;
Colin P. Nuckolls, Columbia University

2003

Terry Gaasterland, Rockefeller University; Christopher Lima, Weill Cornell Medical College; Thomas Tuschl, Rockefeller University; Hao Wu, Weill Cornell Medical College

2001

Ramzi Khuri, Baruch College; 2000 Anna Marie Pyle, Columbia University; Rafael Yuste, Columbia University

2000

Georgi Dvali, New York University; Jill Bargonetti, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.; Angela M. Christiano, Columbia University; Janet M. Conrad , Columbia University

1999

Yuan Chang, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; George Wolberg, The City College of New York (CUNY); Yao Wang, Polytechnic University

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Science and Society

2004

Steven B. Heymsfield, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital

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Science Educator

2004

Steven H. Kaye, James Madison High School

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Student Award

2004

Yin Li, Stuyvesant High School

Neha Chauhan, Susan E. Wagner High School

Mou Chung Ng, Midwood High School

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Special Recognition Award

2004

Doctors and team at Montefiore Medical Center, led by James Goodrich and David Staffenberg

1996

Alan J. Friedman, New York Hall of Science

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Recipients Prior to 1992:

Citicorp; Kurt W. Deuschle, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Arthur Hauspurg, Consolidated Edison Company of New York; Klinger Educational Products Corp.; Lewis Thomas, New York Academy of Sciences.

Jacqueline K. Barton, Columbia University; Edward Cohen, Ammann and Whitney Consulting Engineers; Vincent P. Dole, The Rockefeller University; Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute, New York University.

Michael Heidelberger, New York University School of Medicine; Mary Lasker, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation; Donald F. Othmer, Polytechnic University; Herbert E. Robbins, Columbia University.

Herman Francis Mark, Polytechnic University; Nina Rees, City University of New York; Jacob Schwartz, Courant Institute, New York University; Irving Selikoff, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Chien-Shiung Wu, Columbia University.

Lipman Bers, Columbia University; Charlotte Friend, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Cyril H. Harris,Columbia University; Gerald D. Laubach, Pfizer Inc.; I. I. Rabi, Columbia University.

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