George W. Beadle Award

George W. Beadle Award
George W. Beadle (1903–1989)
Awarded for	outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers
Date	1999 (1999)
Country	United States
Presented by	Genetics Society of America
Website	www.genetics-gsa.org/awards/beadleaward.shtml

The George W. Beadle Award is a prestigious scientific prize given by the Genetics Society of America to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions” to Genetics. The Award was established in 1999 and named in honor of George Wells Beadle,^[1] who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958.

Laureates

Laureates of the Medal have included the following distinguished scientists:

Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling (2003)^[2]
André Goffeau and Robert K. Mortimer (2002)^[3]
Gerald Fink (2001)^[4]
John Sulston and Robert Waterston (2000)^[5]
Michael Ashburner (1999)^[6]
2004 Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
2005 Thomas C. Kaufman, Indiana University
2006 Fred Sherman, University of Rochester
2007 Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota
2008 Mark Johnston, Washington University School of Medicine
2009 Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School
2010 William M. Gelbart, Harvard University
2011 Joseph R. Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2012 Therese Markow, University of California, San Diego
2013 R. Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
2014 Hugo J. Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine
2015 John Postlethwait, University of Oregon
2016 Susan E. Celniker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2017 Susan A. Gerbi, Brown University

References

↑ Horowitz, N. H. (1995). "George Wells Beadle. 23 October 1903 – 9 June 1989". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41: 44–54. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0003.
↑ Orr-Weaver, T. (2003). "The 2003 George W. Beadle Medal; Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling". Genetics. 164 (4): 1248–1249. PMC 1462668. PMID 15106662.
↑ http://www.genetics.org/content/164/2/422.full
↑ Orr-Weaver, T.; Jones, E. W. (2002). "The 2001 George W. Beadle Medal. Gerald R. Fink". Genetics. 160 (2): 371–372. PMC 1461974. PMID 11894820.
↑ Kimble, J. (2001). "The 2000 George W. Beadle Medal. John Sulston and Robert Waterston". Genetics. 157 (2): 467–468. PMC 1461515. PMID 11370623.
↑ Hawley, R.; Kaufman, T. (2000). "The 1999 George W. Beadle Medal. Michael Ashburner". Genetics. 154 (1): 5. PMC 1460911. PMID 10681184.

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