Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Feb
Award Type: $100,000
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers.

Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Awards Program
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Aug
Award Type: $75,000
The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at undergraduate institutions. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers.

National Academy of Inventors Fellows Program
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date (July)
Agency Deadline: May
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The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

Edith and Peter O`Donnell Awards
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Apr
Award Type: $25,000
The Edith and Peter O?Donnell Awards annually recognize rising Texas researchers who are addressing the essential role that science and technology play in society, and whose work meets the highest standards of exemplary professional performance, creativity and resourcefulness.

Piper Award
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Agency Deadline: Nov
Award Type: $5,000
The Piper Professor Award recognizes superior teaching at the college level in the State of Texas. The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation annually honors ten faculty with awards of $5,000 each for superior teaching at the college level. Selection is made on the basis of nominations submitted by each college or university in the State of Texas.

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Early Jan
Award Type: $5,000 "
Our commitment to enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions is embodied in the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards Program. These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources.

Simons Investigators
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Jan
Award Type: $100,000
Each year, the Simons Foundation requests nominations from a targeted list of institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland for the Simons Investigator programs. Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the foundation, enabling them to undertake the long-term study of fundamental questions.

Pew Scholars in Biomedicine
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Award Type: $300,000 over four years"
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level.

Searle Scholars
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Agency Deadline: Jun
Award Type: $300,000 over 3 years
The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their first appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose appointment is a tenure-track position

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Program
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Agency Deadline: Aug
Award Type: ~$150,000/yr for 4 years
The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Moore Inventor Fellows
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Agency Deadline: Dec
Award Type: $825,000
The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation?s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care.

USDA E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship
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The program consists of one week in Washington, DC and one week at a USDA research location. Science Fellows will be placed with either the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) or Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Science Division for the research portion of their fellowship.

Welch Award in Chemistry
Internal Deadline: 6 weeks before Foundation due date
Agency Deadline: Last business day Jan
Award Type: $500,000
The purpose of The Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry is to foster and encourage basic chemical research and to recognize, in a substantial manner, the value of chemical research contributions for the benefit of humankind as set forth in the will of Robert Alonzo Welch. Any person can be considered for the award who has made important chemical research contributions which have a significant, positive influence on humankind. The award is intended to recognize contributions that have not previously been rewarded in a similar manner.

Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Program
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Agency Deadline: Dec
Award Type: $1650-2150/week summer+travel/relocation
The Summer Faculty Research Program awards qualified faculty from Majority and Minority Serving Institutions the opportunity to conduct research for 10 weeks at one of 20 participating ONR facilities. A travel and housing allowance and competitve stipend are provided for awardees. All work must be completed on site at the sponsoring US Navy Laboratory.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards
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Agency Deadline: Nov
Award Type: $700,000
Five-year $700,000 awards for physician-scientists bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research.

Cottrell Scholars
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Agency Deadline: Jul
Award Type: $100,000/yr for 3 years
The Cottrell Scholar Awards are designed for institutions and faculty members who are committed to excel at both teaching and research. These awards enable recipients to implement their plans to become outstanding scientists and educators as well as tomorrow's academic and scientific leaders. The awards also seek to reinforce faculty mentoring, communication, and a heightened appreciation for instruction in university science departments.

Fulbright American Scholars
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The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
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During periodic, open competitions, the Institute solicits applications from researchers at universities, medical schools, and other research institutions across the United States, with the aim of identifying individuals who have the potential to make significant contributions to science. Once selected, they continue to be based at their institutions?called ?host institutions??typically leading a research group of 10?25 students, postdoctoral associates, and technicians. Because HHMI is classified as a medical research organization under the Internal Revenue Code, HHMI investigators and some of their laboratory personnel are Institute employees, supported by local field offices throughout the country. Appointment is for a five-year term, which may be renewed after an exacting review process.

Lasker Medical Research Awards
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The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors scientists whose fundamental investigations have provided techniques, information, or concepts contributing to the elimination of major causes of disability and death. The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors investigators whose contributions have improved the clinical treatment of patients.

MacArthur Foundation Fellows
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Award Type: $625,000 over 5 years
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit (R37)
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Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Awards are offered to a limited number of investigators who have demonstrated superior competence and outstanding productivity during their previous research endeavors and who are likely to continue to perform in an outstanding manner in the future. The MERIT Award provides long-term, stable support to investigators whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are likely to continue to perform in an outstanding manner. It is intended to foster their continued creativity and lessen the administrative burdens associated with the preparation and submission of research grant applications.

National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology
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The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.

NSF CAREER Awards
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The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation- wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
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Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious new CAREER awardees. Selection for this award is based on two important criteria: 1) innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, and 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach. These awards foster innovative developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of the participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the Nation?s future. Individuals cannot apply for PECASE. These awards are initiated by the participating federal agencies. At NSF, up to twenty nominees for this award are selected each year from among the PECASE-eligible CAREER awardees who are most likely to become the leaders of academic research and education in the twenty-first century. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy makes the final selection and announcement of the awardees.

Sloan Research Fellows
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Agency Deadline: Jul
Award Type: $75,000
The purpose of fellowship is to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Selection procedures are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. Their Sloan funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses for which other, more restricted funds such as research project grants cannot usually be employed.

Fields Medal
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The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.

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Conklin Medal (developmental Biology)
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Agency Deadline: Dec
Award Type: $2,000 & medal
Established in 1995, the Edwin G. Conklin Medal in Developmental Biology is awarded annually by the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) to recognize a developmental biologist who has made and is continuing to make extraordinary research contributions to the field, and is also an excellent mentor who has helped train the next generation of outstanding scientists

Francis Amory Prize (medicine / reproductive physiol)
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this prize recognizes major contributions to reproductive biology. The prize is supported by an endowment fund established by Mr. Francis Amory.

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
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The Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences are given annually for accomplishments in life sciences broadly defined.

Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award (Society for Neuroscience)
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Award Type: $5,000 "
The Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual with outstanding career achievements in neuroscience who has also significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience

Soc. Dev. Biol. Lifetime Achievement Award
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Agency Deadline: May
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The Society confers yearly the SDB Lifetime Achievement Award to a senior developmental biologist in recognition of her/his outstanding and sustained contributions in the field, exceptional mentoring and service to the scientific community. Typically, the award is given during the third trimester of the recipient's career, to allow sufficient time to assess the impact of his/her contributions to the community as a whole. The recipient is invited to attend the SDB Annual Meeting and receive the prizes at the Awards Ceremony.

American Heart Assoc. Young Investigator Award
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Agency Deadline: 16-Oct
Award Type: not listed
Early career investigators are PhDs and/or MDs who are still in training or have completed training within the last four years; or PhDs and/or MDs who are still within in the first four years after their first faculty appointment as of the award application date.

Trubach Career Development award (Neuroscience)
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Agency Deadline: May
Award Type: $2,000
The Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award, supported by the Trubatch Family, recognizes originality and creativity in research and promotes success during academic transitions prior to tenure.

Elizabeth Hay New Investigator Award (dev. Biol)
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Agency Deadline: Dec
Award Type: deliver an award lecture at the SDB annual meeting
this award recognizes new investigators who have performed outstanding research in developmental biology during the early stages of their independent career. The nominee should be at the pre-tenure stage of their career (assistant professor rank) at the time of nomination. Nominees are evaluated on their independence from mentors, as well as the originality, significance, and impact of their research on the broader field of developmental biology. The recipient will deliver an award lecture at the SDB annual meeting.

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship award (Neuroscience)
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Agency Deadline: 15-Feb
Award Type: $225,000/over 3 years
The Klingenstein-Simons Neuroscience Fellowship supports innovative research by early career investigators. The research should have relevance for understanding the mechanisms underlying any of a wide range of neurological and behavioral disorders, and it may lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. We recognize, however, that some of the most important contributions towards disease cures can come from basic research, without an immediate understanding of their relationship to disease, and will continue our support of basic research.Our hope is that our funding will seed new directions in the fellows? research programs by providing an unencumbered addition to their regular source of research support. Through our yearly meetings we hope to foster collaboration and mentorship between current and former fellows at different stages in their careers. We give priority to candidates who may not have received substantial funding from other private awards yet have highly promising scientific careers. The Klingenstein-Simons award gives recognition to outstanding scientists who have made valuable contributions in their early research efforts, and who show the greatest promise for a successful research career.

Beckman Young Investigator Award
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Agency Deadline: June-Aug
Award Type: $600,000.over 4 years
The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Simons Fdn (microbial ecol/evolution)
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Alan T Waterman Award (NSF)
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Agency Deadline: 20-Sep
Award Type: $1 million/over 5 years
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) annual Alan T. Waterman Award honors an outstanding young U.S. scientist or engineer. The awardee receives a grant of $1 million over five years for scientific research or advanced study in any field of science, plus a medal and other recognition.A candidate must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. He or she must be 40 years of age or younger, OR not more than 10 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree, by December 31st of the year in which they are nominated. The candidate should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality to be placed at the forefront of his or her peers. Criteria also include originality, innovation and a significant impact on the individual's field.

HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholars
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Award Type: $100,000-$400,000/yr for 5years
HHMI launched the Faculty Scholars grant program in 2016 to identify, nurture, and support top researchers during an early phase of their careers, when competition for grant support is particularly intense. In the United States, the career trajectory for early career scientists has become much less certain as competition for grant support has intensified. The health and vigor of our national research enterprise depend upon the U.S. maintaining a robust pipeline to scientific professions. HHMI seeks to purposefully contribute by giving our best researchers the resources and environment with which to pursue difficult and important basic science questions. PhD and/or MD (or the equivalent).Tenured or tenure-track position as assistant professor or higher academic rank at one of the eligible U.S. institutions, or, if at an eligible institution that has no tenure track, an appointment that reflects a significant institutional commitment. Federal government employees are not eligible.Principal investigator or Co-Principal investigator on at least one active, nationally competitive grant with an initial term of two or more years at some point from April 1, 2013 through July 1, 2015. Career development grants qualify. Multi-investigator grants may qualify.

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"Several ACS National Awards in, for example, Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, etc."
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Fellow of the American Physical Society
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Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society?s membership (excluding student members) is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
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Agency Deadline: May-23
Award Type: $250,000, a medal, and a certificate
The Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences is awarded to an individual in a selected area of chemistry to recognize exceptional and original research that has advanced the field in a major way. The prize is awarded biennially and consists of a monetary award of $250,000, a medal, and a certificate.

ACS Priestley Medal
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Agency Deadline: 1-Nov
Award Type: medal
To recognize distinguished services to chemistry.

ACS Arthur C. Cope Award
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Agency Deadline: 1-Nov
Award Type: $25,000, a medallion with a presentation box, and a certificate.
To recognize outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry, the significance of which has become apparent within the five years preceding the year in which the award will be considered.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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NAS
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $15,000 and medal"
The NAS Award in Chemical Sciences is presented annually to honor innovative research in the chemical sciences that contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity. The NAS Award in Chemical Sciences was established in 1978 and supported by Occidental Petroleum Corporation from 1978 to 1996. The Merck Company Foundation assumed sponsorship in 1999.

Guggenheim
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Agency Deadline: 17-Sep
Award Type: variable
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months. Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants are made freely. No special conditions attach to them, and Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. The United States Internal Revenue Service, however, does require the Foundation to ask for reports from its Fellows at the end of their Fellowship terms.

Fullbright Scholar
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Fulbright Scholar Awards comprise the bulk of awards offered and include opportunities for professionals, artists, and scholars at all career-levels. Location and eligibility vary across all awards, and some awards may be restricted to certain career levels or types of scholars. This information is outlined in the award description.

Dreyfus Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering
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Agency Deadline: 7-Apr
Award Type: The amount of support requested is determined by the applicant. Partial contributions to larger scale efforts will be considered
The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, initiated in 2020, provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation?s broad objective to advance the chemical sciences and engineering. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical insight and innovation in the field.

ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
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Agency Deadline: 1-Nov
Award Type: $5,000, a certificate, and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant"
To recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry.

ACS ExxonMobil Faculty Fellow in Solid State Chemistry
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To recognize significant contributions in solid-state chemistry by junior faculty at US institutions and support solid-state chemistry as a recognized discipline.

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
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Agency Deadline: 2-Feb
Award Type: unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment (see below), and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching.

NSF CAREER
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Agency Deadline: 4th Monday in July
Award Type: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Beckman Young Investigator
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Agency Deadline: June-Aug
Award Type: $600,000.over 4 years
The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Sloan Research Fellow
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Agency Deadline: 15-Sep
Award Type: $75,000 "
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

Cottrell Scholar
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Agency Deadline: 1-Jul
Award Type: $100,000 over 3 years"
The Cottrell Scholar Award honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcomes.

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IEEE Internet Award
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Agency Deadline: 15-Jun
Award Type: The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and cash honorarium
For exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility, and/or end-use applications

Ken Kennedy Award
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Agency Deadline: 1-Jun
Award Type: $5,000
The ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award is awarded annually and recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. The award includes a $5,000 honorarium. The recipient will give a presentation, normally technical, at the SC conference at which it is announced, or at an ACM or IEEE conference of the winner's choosing during the year following the announcement.

ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
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Agency Deadline: 15-Dec
Award Type: $10,000
The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. This award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000, provided by ACM

Dijkstra Prize
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The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is named for Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), a pioneer in the area of distributed computing. His foundational work on concurrency primitives (such as the semaphore), concurrency problems (such as mutual exclusion and deadlock), reasoning about concurrent systems, and self-stabilization comprises one of the most important supports upon which the field of distributed computing is built. No other individual has had a larger influence on research in principles of distributed computing.The prize is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing have been evident for at least a decade.

Milner Award
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Award Type: ú5,000
premier European award for outstanding achievement in computer science. It is awarded to candidates at the peak of their career who have made a substantial contribution to computer science in Europe, with the strategic aim of supporting European researchers and institutes. The recipient is a European researcher or researcher who has been resident in Europe for 12 months or more, and is chosen by the Council of the Royal Society on the recommendation of the Milner Award Committee. The Committee is made up of Fellows of the Royal Society, Members of the AcadÇmie des sciences (France) and Members of Leopoldina (Germany). The award is named in honour of Professor Robin Milner FRS (1934-2010), a pioneer in computer science. The medal is of bronze, is awarded annually and is accompanied by a gift of ú5,000.

Azriel Rosenfeld Award
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The Azriel Rosenfeld Award, or Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award was established at ICCV 2007 in Rio de Janeiro to honor outstanding researchers who are recognized as making significant contributions to the field of Computer Vision over longtime careers.

Turing Award
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Agency Deadline: 15-Dec
Award Type: $1 million
The A. M. Turing Award is ACM's oldest and most prestigious award. It is presented annually to an individual who has made lasting contributions of a technical nature to the computing community. The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet. Financial support for the award is provided by Google Inc.

Godel Prize
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Agency Deadline: 31-Dec
Award Type: $5,000
The Gîdel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory (ACM SIGACT). The award is named in honor of Kurt Gîdel. Gîdel's connection to theoretical computer science is that he was the first to mention the "P versus NP" question, in a 1956 letter to John von Neumann in which Gîdel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time

John von Neumann Medal
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For outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.

Test-of-Time award
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The annual SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact and recognition that the paper has changed HPC trends. The ToTA also acts as an incentive for researchers and students to send their best work to the SC Conference, and as a tool for understanding what makes lasting results in the HPC discipline. Papers appearing in the SC Program 10 to 25 years prior to the current conference year are eligible for this award.

IEEE Medal of Honor
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Agency Deadline: 15-Jun
Award Type: The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze replica, a certificate, and honorarium"
For an exceptional contribution(s) or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.

NSF Career Award
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Agency Deadline: 4th Monday in July
Award Type: $500,000 dependent on availability of funds
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

PECASE Award
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Agency Deadline: 4th Monday in July
Award Type: $500,000 dependent on availability of funds
Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious recent CAREER awardees. Selection for this award is based on two important criteria: 1) innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology that is relevant to the mission of NSF, and 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education, or community outreach. These awards foster innovative developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of the participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the Nation?s future. Individuals cannot apply for PECASE. These awards are initiated by the participating federal agencies. At NSF, up to twenty nominees for this award are selected each year from among the PECASE-eligible CAREER awardees most likely to become the leaders of academic research and education in the twenty-first century. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy makes the final selection and announcement of the awardees.

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
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The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book, Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman. It is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds.

Grace Murray Hopper Award
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Agency Deadline: 15-Dec
Award Type: $35,000
Awarded to the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of $35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. Financial support of the Grace Murray Hopper Award is provided by Microsoft.

Prize in Computing
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Agency Deadline: 15-Dec
Award Type: $250,000
The ACM Prize in Computing recognizes an early to mid-career fundamental innovative contribution in computing that, through its depth, impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline. The award carries a prize of $250,000. Financial support for the award is provided by Infosys Ltd.

NAE
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NAS
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $100,00
The Michael and Sheila Held Prize is presented annually to honor outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and analysis of algorithms and complexity theory. This $100,000 prize is intended to recognize recent work (defined as published within the last eight years). The Held prize was established in 2017 by the bequest of Michael and Sheila Held.

Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards
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This award is open to K-12 or undergraduate educators in the areas of computing, engineering, and/or math.The Educational Innovation Abie Award in Honor of A. Richard Newton recognizes educators for developing innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract female students to computing, engineering, and math in K-12 or undergraduate education.

Sloan Research Fellowship
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Agency Deadline: 15-Sep
Award Type: $75,000 "
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

ACM Distinguished Member
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Agency Deadline: 1-Aug
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The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.

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Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
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Agency Deadline: 12-Jun
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MSA Members who have contributed significantly to the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, or allied sciences and whose scientific contribution utilized mineralogical studies or data, may be designated as Fellows upon proper accreditation by the Committee on Nomination for Fellows and election by the Council. Recipients of the Roebling Medal and Mineralogical Society of America Award automatically become Fellows.

Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
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Agency Deadline: 15-Jan, 31-Jan"
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Members who have distinguished themselves in meteoritics or in closely allied fields may be elected Fellows by the Council. No more than 1% of the members can be elected in even-numbered years.

Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
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Agency Deadline: 1-May
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Those eligible for election to Fellow shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.

Fellow of the Geochemical Society
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Agency Deadline: 31-Oct
Award Type:
the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry established the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow, to be bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry. Recipients of the Goldschmidt, Patterson, EAG Science Innovation, Treibs, and Urey Awards become Fellows automatically. Scientific excellence is a core value of both the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, and it is our privilege, by rewarding it, to take a leading role in its definition. In awarding Geochemistry Fellows, our societies believe it is important to recognize the broad spectrum of scientific achievements that advance geochemistry. Excellence should not be limited to major discoveries and ideas that change paradigms, and not solely evaluated on the basis of the number of papers published in high-impact journals; the nominee's h-index and previously obtained distinctions; nor the amount of funding acquired. Instead, we recognize that scientific eminence, achievement, and impact also encompass sustained and proven contributions that create a dynamic environment essential for scientific progress.

Fellow of the American Geophysical union
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Agency Deadline: 15-Apr
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The Fellows program was established in 1962 and recognizes AGU members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field. Fellows act as external experts, capable of advising government agencies and other organizations outside the sciences upon request. The program enhances the prestige of AGU and motivates members to achieve excellence in research.

"Thompson Medal, Mary Clark "
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $20,000
Established by the NAS Council in June 2017 by combining two awards: the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and the Mary Clark Thompson Medal. The award rotates presentation between the Elliot Medal that recognizes meritorious work in zoology or paleontology published no earlier than the last presentation of the medal (2018), and the Thompson Medal that honors important services to geology and paleontology. Each medal is presented with a $20,000 prize.

"Warren Prize, G. K. "
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $20,000
Awarded to recognize distinguished accomplishment in fluviatile geology and closely related aspects of the geological sciences. The recipient is awarded a $20,000 prize. Established through the G. K. Warren Fund by gift of Miss Emily B. Warren.

The Maurice Ewing Medal
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Award Type: AGU Fellowship, engraved medal
The Maurice Ewing Medal is given annually to one honoree in recognition of significant original contributions to the ocean sciences which includes for the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation and/or outstanding service to the marine sciences. The Ewing Medal is jointly sponsored with the United States Navy and is named in honor of Maurice Ewing, who made significant contributions to deep-sea exploration. Ewing medalists are evaluated based on significant original contributions to the ocean sciences. Their contributions for the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation, and/or outstanding service to the marine sciences also considered.

Arthur L Day Medal
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Agency Deadline: 1-Feb
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It is awarded annually, or less frequently at the discretion of the Council, to recognize outstanding distinction in the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems, with no restriction to the particular field of geologic research. It was Dr. Day's wish to provide an award to recognize outstanding achievement in research and to inspire further effort, rather than to reward a distinguished career, and so it has been the longstanding practice of the Society to award this medal to geoscientists actively pursuing a research career.

Member of the NAS
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Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Current NAS membership totals approximately 2,400 members and 500 international members, of which approximately 190 have received Nobel prizes. Because membership is achieved by election, there is no membership application process. Although many names are suggested informally, only Academy members may submit formal nominations. Consideration of a candidate begins with his or her nomination, followed by an extensive and careful vetting process that results in a final ballot at the Academy's annual meeting in April each year. Currently, a maximum of 120 members may be elected annually. Members must be U.S. citizens; non-citizens are elected as international members, with a maximum of 30 elected annually.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
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Agency Deadline: April 28,2021"
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A member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who has been a continuous member for the four year period leading up to the year of nomination, may, by virtue of such meritorious contribution be elected a Fellow by the Council.

V.M. Goldschmidt Award
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Agency Deadline: 31-Oct
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The V. M. Goldschmidt Award is the society's highest honor, presented annually for major achievements in geochemistry over a career.

Penrose medal
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Agency Deadline: 1-Feb
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The Penrose Medal was established in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., to be awarded in recognition of eminent research in pure geology, for outstanding original contributions or achievements that mark a major advance in the science of geology.

Harry Hess Medal
Internal Deadline:
Agency Deadline: Opens Jan 17
Award Type: AGU fellowship
The Harry H. Hess Medal is given annually to a senior scientist in recognition of outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets. Recipients of this award typically conduct research in the following disciplines: Earth and planetary surface processes, mineral rock physics, planetary sciences, study of the Earth?s deep interior, techtonophysics, volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology.

CC Patterson Award
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Agency Deadline: 31-Oct
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The Clair C. Patterson Award is presented annually for an innovative breakthrough in environmental geochemistry of fundamental significance within the last decade, particularly in service to society. To be viewed as innovative, the work must show a high degree of creativity and/or be a fundamental departure from usual practice while contributing significantly to understanding in environmental geochemistry.Nominations of people from underrepresented groups are encouraged (e.g., women, non-white researchers and/or researchers from Asia, Africa and Latin America, disabled scientists, those who have led diversified careers, other historically minoritized groups, and intersections thereof).

Geochemistry Fellows
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Agency Deadline: 31-Oct
Award Type:
the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry established the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow, to be bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry. Recipients of the Goldschmidt, Patterson, EAG Science Innovation, Treibs, and Urey Awards become Fellows automatically. Scientific excellence is a core value of both the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, and it is our privilege, by rewarding it, to take a leading role in its definition. In awarding Geochemistry Fellows, our societies believe it is important to recognize the broad spectrum of scientific achievements that advance geochemistry. Excellence should not be limited to major discoveries and ideas that change paradigms, and not solely evaluated on the basis of the number of papers published in high-impact journals; the nominee's h-index and previously obtained distinctions; nor the amount of funding acquired. Instead, we recognize that scientific eminence, achievement, and impact also encompass sustained and proven contributions that create a dynamic environment essential for scientific progress.

Leonard Medal
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Agency Deadline: 15-Jan
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The Leonard Medal honors outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields. It was established in 1962 to honor the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard.

Fellow of the Geological society of America
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Agency Deadline: 1-Feb
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GSA Fellowship is an honor that is bestowed on the best of our profession.GSA members are elected to Fellowship in recognition of a sustained record of distinguished contributions to the geosciences and to the Geological Society of America.

Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists
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Agency Deadline: Opens January 17
Award Type: AGU Fellowship
The Joanne Simpson Medal is given annually to two to three mid-career honorees in recognition of their significant contributions to Earth and space science. Recipients of this award may work across any Earth and space science discipline.

MacArthur Fellowship
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Award Type: $625,000 over 5 years
The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.

J Clarence Karcher award
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Agency Deadline: 31-Dec
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To honor the memory of J Clarence Karcher and his enormous contribution to exploration geophysics, the J. Clarence Karcher Award is awarded in recognition of significant contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist of outstanding abilities who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, merits such recognition. Recipients must be less than 35 years of age on November 1 of the year preceding presentation of the award.

Nier Prize
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Agency Deadline: 15-Jan
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The Nier Prize recognizes outstanding research in meteoritics and closely allied fields by young scientists. The recipient will be a scientist who has not reached age 35 at the end of the year in which he or she is selected, or whose doctorate was awarded no more than seven years before the year of selection. The award was established in 1995 to honor the memory of Alfred O. C. Nier, and is supported by an endowment given by Mrs. Ardis H. Nier.

Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal)
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Agency Deadline: 1-Feb
Award Type: Gold Medal
The Young Scientist Award was established in 1988 to be awarded to a young scientist (35 or younger throughout the year in which the award is to be presented) for outstanding achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original research that marks a major advance in the earth sciences. For 2021, only those candidates born on or after 1 January 1986 are eligible for consideration.

James B. Macelwane Medal
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Agency Deadline: Opens January 17
Award Type: AGU Fellowship, engraved medal
The James B. Macelwane Medal is given annually to three to five early career scientists in recognition of their significant contributions to Earth and space science. Nominees are selected for the medal based on their depth and breadth of research, impact, creativity as well as service, outreach, and diversity. The Macelwane Medal was named in honor of former AGU president James B. Macelwane (1953-1956) who was renowned for his contributions to geophysics. Macelwane was also deeply interested in teaching and encouraging scientists, founding the Department of Geophysics at St. Louis University and serving as Dean of the Graduate School, along with various other roles, all while always committing to teach at least one course.

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award
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Agency Deadline: 4th Monday in July
Award Type: $500,000 dependent on availability of funds
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

David and Lucile Packard Fellow
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Award Type: $875,000 grant
Each year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two early-career professors each from their institutions. Disciplines that are considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering.

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George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years, next nomination period March 1 - June 30 2023"
Award Type: $5,000 "
The Birkhoff Prize is awarded for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.

Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years, next nomination period March 1 - June 30 2024"
Award Type: $5,000
The Wiener Prize is awarded for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.

Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
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Awarded in recognition of outstanding work in applied mathematics and numerical analysis by a candidate whose research has been carried out in institutions located in North America. Established through funds provided by the IBM Corporation. Discontinued in 2005.

International Prize in Statistics
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Agency Deadline: Opens January 1, 2022-August 15, 2022"
Award Type: $80,000
The International Prize in Statistics is awarded every two years by a collaboration among five leading international statistics organizations. The prize recognizes a major achievement by an individual or team in the statistics field, particularly an achievement of powerful and original ideas that has led to practical applications and breakthroughs in other disciplines.

Leroy P. Steele Prize
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Agency Deadline: 31-Mar
Award Type: $10,000
The Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded for the cumulative influence of the total mathematical work of the recipient, high level of research over a period of time, particular influence on the development of a field, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students.

Fields Medal
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Award Type: Gold medal and 15,000 CAD"
The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.

Abel Prize
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Agency Deadline: 15-Sep
Award Type: 7.5 million NOK
The Abel Prize recognizes outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics, and also applications of mathematics in the sciences

Rolf Schock Prizes
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences appoint prize committees in logic and philosophy and mathematics that send out nomination invitations and then review the nominated candidates. It is not possible to nominate without an invitation from the committee, or to nominate yourself.

Nevanlinna Prize
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Award Type: EUC 10,000 and medal
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded, once every four years, at the International Congress of Mathematicians for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences. An awardee?s 40th birthday must not occur before January 1st of the year of the Congress at which the Prize is awarded.

Gauss Prize
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Award Type: EUC 10,000 and medal
The Gauss Prize is to honor scientists whose mathematical research has had an impact outside mathematics ? either in technology, in business, or simply in people's everyday lives.

Wolf Prize
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Agency Deadline: 20-Oct
Award Type: certificate and $100,000
The acclaimed Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world, (regardless of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views) for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.

Kyoto Prize
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Award Type: 100 million YEN, dipolma, medal
The Kyoto Prize is an international award of Japanese origin, presented to individuals who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and technology, as well as the arts and philosophy. This internationally renowned award was born out of the sincere wish of Kazuo Inamori to ?contribute to the progress of the future of humanity while maintaining a balance between the development of science and civilization and the enrichment of the human spirit.?

Shaw Prize
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It is an international award to honour individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence. The award is dedicated to furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization.

Crafoord Prize
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Award Type: SEK 6 million
The purpose of the Fund is to promote basic scientific research worldwide in the following disciplines: Mathematics and Astronomy, Geosciences, Biosciences, Polyarthritis. Support to research takes the form of an international prize awarded annually to outstanding scientists and of research grants to individuals in Sweden.

John J. Carty Award
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: medal and $25,000
The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is awarded every two years, to recognize noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in any field of science within the National Academy of Science?s charter. The award is presented with a medal and a $25,000 prize.

James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
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Award Type: $2,000 and engraved plaque
The James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, established in 1979, is awarded for research in, or other contributions to, numerical analysis and scientific computing during the six years preceding the award. The purpose of the prize is to stimulate younger contributors (as defined under Eligibility) and to help them in their careers.

Theodore von K†rm†n Prize
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Award Type: $2,000
The Theodore von K†rm†n Prize, established in 1968, is awarded for a notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences made during the five to ten years preceding the award. The award may be given for a significant achievement by one individual or a significant body of work that could have been produced by multiple contributors.

George P¢lya Prize (SIAM)
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Award Type: engraved medal and $10,000
The George P¢lya Prize in Combinatorics, originally established in 1969, is awarded every four years for a notable application of combinatorial theory. The prize is broadly intended to recognize specific work. The award may occasionally be made for cumulative work, but such awards should be rare.

Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
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The speakers for these public lectures are selected by invitation. It is hoped that these lectures will enable the public and the academic community to become aware of the contribution that mathematics is making to present-day thinking and to modern civilization.

COPSS Presidents' Award
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Agency Deadline: 15-Dec
Award Type: $2,000 and plaque"
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the COPSS Presidents' Award annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.

Ostrowski Prize
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The aim of the Ostrowski Foundation is to promote the mathematical sciences. Every second year it provides a prize for recent outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and in the foundations of numerical mathematics

Maryam Mirzakhani Prize
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $20,000
The Mirzakhani Prize (formerly the NAS Award in Mathematics) was established in 1988 by the American Mathematical Society in honor of its centennial. The prize was renamed to honor the late Maryam Mirzakhani, a highly accomplished and talented mathematician, professor at Stanford University, and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She was the first (and only) woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, often equated in stature with the Nobel Prize. Made possible through generous gifts from the Simons Foundation and other benefactors, this $20,000 prize will be awarded biennially for exceptional contributions to the mathematical sciences by a mid-career mathematician.

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
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Agency Deadline: Every 2 years - next nomination period March 1 - June 30 2023
Award Type: $5,000 "
The Satter Prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years.

AMS Distinguished Public Service Award
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Agency Deadline: Every 2 years - next nomination period March 1 - June 30 2023
Award Type: $4,000 "
The Award for Distinguished Public Service recognizes a research mathematician who has made recent or sustained distinguished contributions to the mathematics profession through public service.

MacArthur Fellowship
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Award Type: $625,000 over 5 years
The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.

William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research
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Award Type: $10,000 and engraved medal
The George P¢lya Prize in Combinatorics, originally established in 1969, is awarded every four years for a notable application of combinatorial theory. The prize is broadly intended to recognize specific work. The award may occasionally be made for cumulative work, but such awards should be rare.

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
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The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics recognizes a single person?s contribution to the field of mathematics, with special attention to recent developments (in the last 10 years, although earlier contributions may also be considered).

Bìcher Memorial Prize
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years. Next nomination period March 1 - June 30, 2022"
Award Type: $5,000
The Bìcher Prize is awarded for a notable paper in analysis published during the preceding six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue.

Cole Prize
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years. Next nomination period March 1 - June 30, 2022"
Award Type: $5,000
This Prize recognizes a notable research work in number theory that has appeared in the last six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue.

Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years. Next nomination period March 1 - June 30, 2024"
Award Type: $5,000
The award is made for a notable research work in geometry or topology that has appeared in the last six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue.

David P. Robbins Prize
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Agency Deadline: Every 3 years. Next nomination period March 1 - June 30, 2024"
Award Type: $5,000
The Robbins Prize is for a paper with the following characteristics: it shall report on novel research in algebra, combinatorics or discrete mathematics and shall have a significant experimental component; and it shall be on a topic which is broadly accessible and shall provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work. Papers published within the six calendar years preceding the year in which the prize is awarded are eligible for consideration.

Richard C. DiPrima Prize
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Award Type: certificate and $2,000
The Richard C. DiPrima Prize, established in 1986, is awarded to an individual early career researcher who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics (defined as those topics covered by SIAM journals) and who has completed his/her doctoral dissertation and completed all other requirements for his/her doctorate during the period running from three years prior to the award date to one year prior to the award date.

Salem Prize
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The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series. The prize is considered highly prestigious and many of the recipients of Salem prize have also been awarded the Fields Medal later in their career.

NSF Career Award
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Agency Deadline: 4th Monday in July
Award Type: $500,000 dependent on availability of funds
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Sloan Research Fellowship
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Agency Deadline: 15-Sep
Award Type: $75,000 "
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

AMS Centennial Fellowship
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Agency Deadline: 1-Dec
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Centennial Fellowships provide one-year fellowships for research in mathematics.

Guggenheim Fellows
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Agency Deadline: 17-Sep
Award Type: variable
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months. Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants are made freely. No special conditions attach to them, and Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. The United States Internal Revenue Service, however, does require the Foundation to ask for reports from its Fellows at the end of their Fellowship terms.

New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
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The New Horizons in Mathematics Prize is awarded to early-career researchers who have already produced important work.

Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
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Award Type: $50,000 "
The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize is designated for women mathematicians who have completed their PhDs within the previous two years.

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Breakthrough Prize
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Award Type: $3 million - can be divided between 2 or more scientists
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is given annually for accomplishments in fundamental physics broadly defined, including advances in closely related fields with deep connections to physics. The New Horizons Prize is designated for junior researchers.

John Wheatley Award (APS)
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Agency Deadline: 1-Jun
Award Type: $5,000 and certificate
The award will be made to a physicist who, working in developing country has made an outstanding contribution to the development of physics in that region by working with local physicists in physics research or teaching.

Hans Bethe Prize (APS)
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Agency Deadline: 1-Jun
Award Type: $10,000 and certificate
This Award is made annually to one individual for outstanding accomplishments in the areas of astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, or closely related fields. It is open to any scientist working in these areas, worldwide. Nominations are active for 3 years.

Fellow of the APS Physics Teacher Education Coalition
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APS Fellow
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The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society.

Maurice Ewing Medal from the Society for Exploration Geology
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Award Type: AGU Fellowship, engraved medal
The Maurice Ewing Medal is given annually to one honoree in recognition of significant original contributions to the ocean sciences which includes for the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation and/or outstanding service to the marine sciences. The Ewing Medal is jointly sponsored with the United States Navy and is named in honor of Maurice Ewing, who made significant contributions to deep-sea exploration. Ewing medalists are evaluated based on significant original contributions to the ocean sciences. Their contributions for the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation, and/or outstanding service to the marine sciences also considered.

NAS Member
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Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Current NAS membership totals approximately 2,400 members and 500 international members, of which approximately 190 have received Nobel prizes.

"Comstock Award, NAS"
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Agency Deadline: 4-Oct
Award Type: $50,000 prize & $50,000 to support research
Awarded to recognize a North American resident for a recent innovative discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy. The award is presented with a $50,000 prize and $50,000 to support the recipient's research. Established through the Cyrus B. Comstock Fund.

National Medal of Science
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The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." In 1980, Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.

Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
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Award Type: ?60,000 award money (research stay of up to 12 months in Germany possible)
Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards to internationally leading researchers of all disciplines from abroad in recognition of their academic record to date.

AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Member
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AAAS membership is open to all ? whether you?re a career scientist, engineer, student, or passionate champion for science, you belong here. We?ve been the home for scientists and science supporters since 1848. Today we?re the world?s largest general scientific society ? a community that cares about curiosity, evidence, and discovery.

Simons Foundation Investigator
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Award Type: An Investigator receives research support of $100,000 per year. An additional $10,000 per year is provided to the Investigator?s department. The Investigator?s institution receives an additional 20 percent in indirect costs.
The intent of the Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Computer Science programs is to support outstanding theoretical scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions, providing leadership to the field and effectively mentoring junior scientists. Starting in 2020, up to two Simons Investigator in Physics awards will be granted to well-established researchers who develop and apply advance theoretical physics ideas and methods in the life sciences.

Fullbright Scholar
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Fulbright Scholar Awards comprise the bulk of awards offered and include opportunities for professionals, artists, and scholars at all career-levels. Location and eligibility vary across all awards, and some awards may be restricted to certain career levels or types of scholars. This information is outlined in the award description.

Scialog Fellow of the Research Corporation
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Approximately 50 early-career faculty are invited to participate as Fellows for each Scialog, with early career spanning the time from the first year on the faculty through recently post-tenure

Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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To that end, the foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships annually to professionals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or creativity in the arts. Fellowships are awarded for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months, with the goal of providing recipients with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. The fellowship is open to writers, scholars, or scientists with a significant record of publication, as well as artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others with a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.

Member of the National Academy of Inventors
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The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Irwin Oppenheim Award (APS)
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Award Type: $3,000 and certificate"
The Oppenheim Award will be the first best-paper award by a Physical Review journal. It will recognize outstanding contributions to physics by early career scientists who publish in PRE

Maria Goeppert Mayer award (APS)
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Award Type: $3,000
To recognize and enhance outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and to provide opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the spirit of Maria Goeppert Mayer

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
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Award Type: $75,000 "
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

NSF CAREER Award
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Award Type: $500,000 dependent on availability of funds
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

DOE CAREER Award
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Award Type: $150,000/year
To be eligible for the DOE award, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory, who received a Ph.D. within the past 10 years. Research topics are required to fall within one of the Department's Office of Science's eight major program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production.

Cottrell Scholar of the Research Cooperation
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Initial Cottrell Scholar award. Develops the outstanding teacher-scholars. Faculty are eligibile at the end of the third year of their first faculty appointment.

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Program
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Award Type: ~$150,000/yr for 4 years
The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Moore Inventor Fellows
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Agency Deadline: Dec
Award Type: $825,000
The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care.