Nevada Medal

The Nevada Medal was established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement in science and engineering", and is presented by the Governor of Nevada. The previous recipients are:


 * 1) Verner Suomi
 * 2) Dwight Billings
 * 3) James A. Van Allen
 * 4) Benoit Mandelbrot
 * 5) Carl Djerassi
 * 6) Margaret Bryan Davis
 * 7) John N. Bahcall
 * 8) Charles Elachi
 * 9) Hector F. DeLuca
 * 10) F. Sherwood Rowland
 * 11) Lynn Margulis
 * 12) Wallace Broecker
 * 13) Harold Mooney
 * 14) John H. Seinfeld
 * 15) M. Gordon Wolman
 * 16) Charles Goldman
 * 17) Fakhri A. Bazzaz
 * 18) Farouk El-Baz
 * 19) Donald Grayson
 * 20) Walter Alvarez
 * 21) Susan Lindquist
 * 22) James E. Hansen
 * 23) Francis Collins
 * 24) Robert Ballard
 * 25) Steven Squyres
 * 26) Nina Fedoroff
 * 27) Albert Yu-Min Lin
 * 28) Christopher McKay
 * 29) Missy Cummings
 * 30) Marcia McNutt
 * 31) Kathryn Sullivan (2020)