Draft:Cozzarelli Prize

The Cozzarelli Prize is an award given annually by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (known as PNAS) to authors of PNAS articles whose articles have made outstanding contributions to their field.

The Cozzarelli Prize was first awarded in 2006 under the name PNAS Paper of the Year Prize. In 2007 the prize was renamed to honor former PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli.

Recipients
The prize's first recipient was Karl Mahlburg, who was the sole recipient for 2006, the prize's inaugural year. Starting in 2007, each year's prize was given to six author teams representing each of the six classes of the National Academy of Sciences: Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Biological Sciences; Engineering and Applied Sciences; Biomedical Sciences; Behavioral and Social Sciences; and Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

The full list of recipients is found on the prize's web page.