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x Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Gen pulitzer Pulitzer Prize    
The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919. This list is based on the website for the Pulitzer...
x BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress   BAFTA Award      
x Chicago International Film Festival Career Achievement Award          
x BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award        
The BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to the sportsperson who has made a substantive, yet unrecognised contribution to sport....
x Nobel Prize in Chemistry Vant Hoff Nobel Prize    
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in...
x Nobel Peace Prize Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Prize    
The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:...
x Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature medal. Original design ®© The Nobel Foundation Nobel Prize    
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in...
x Nobel Prize in Physics Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995), winning the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1] Nobel Prize 1901  
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the...
x Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine E A Behring Nobel Prize 1901  
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for...
x Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel2008Economics news conference1 Nobel Prize 1968  
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i ekonomi), is an award for outstanding contributions to the science of economics and is generally considered one of the most...
x Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album   Grammy Award    
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes: Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.
x Arthur C. Clarke Award   Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987  
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in...
x The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award      
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." The award is named for Irving Thalberg,...
x New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director   New York Film Critics Circle Awards    
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking. In the last three (1970s, 1980s and 1990s) decades the New York Film Critics...
x New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay          
x César Award for Best Foreign Film        
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Foreign Film (French: César du meilleur film étranger). Adapted from the article César Award for Best Foreign Film, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
x Oscar for Best Director   Academy Awards    
The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to directors working in the motion picture industry. While nominations for Best...
x Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture   Golden Globe Awards    
This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the...
x César Award for Best European Film          
x BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film   BAFTA Award      
x BAFTA Award for Best Film   BAFTA Award    
This page lists the Milo and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for each year, in addition to the retired earlier versions of those awards...
x Oscar for Best Picture   Academy Awards    
The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only...
x Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay   Academy Awards    
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were...
x Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar statuette Academy Awards    
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion...
x American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award          
x Academy Award for Best Cinematography CharlesRosher Academy Awards    
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture. In its first year, 1927-28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific...
x Order of Lenin Order of Lenin      
The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded From 1944 to 1957, before the institution of specific...
x James Tiptree, Jr. Award Sex in SF template James Tiptree, Jr. Award    
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction ("SF") or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by SF authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler,...
x Wolf Prize in Mathematics   Wolf Prize 1978  
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. Until the...
x Cole Prize        
The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory...
x Hugo Award for Best Novel   Hugo Awards 1953  
The Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel is given each year for works published during the previous calendar year. A work of fiction is defined as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer. The Hugo for Best Novel has been awarded...
x Kennedy Center Honor     1978    
x MacArthur Fellowship        
The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in...
x Media.Art.Research Award          
x Prix Ars Electronica - Digital Musics          
x President's Medal        
President’s Medalfor meritorious services to physics in general and the Institute in particular.
x Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics        
Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics for outstanding contribution to physics.
x Business and Innovation Medal of the Institute of Physics        
Business and Innovation Medal of the Institute of Physics for outstanding contribution to the organisation or application of physics in an industrial or commercial context.
x Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics   Institute of Physics Gold Medals    
Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics for outstanding contribution to theoretical, mathematical and computational physics.
x Faraday Medal of the Institute of Physics        
Faraday Medal of the Institute of Physics for outstanding contribution to experimental physics.
x Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics        
Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics for leadership in a physics context..
x Appleton Medal   Institute of Physics Subject Prizes 1939  
Appleton Medal for distinguished research in environment, earth or atmospheric physics.
x Bragg Medal        
Bragg Medal for significant contributions to physics education.
x Chadwick Medal        
Chadwick Medal for distinguished research in particle physics.
x Franklin Medal        
Franklin Medal for distinguished research in physics applied to the life sciences.
x Gabor Medal        
Gabor Medal for distinguished work in the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context.
x Hoyle Medal        
Hoyle Medal for distinguished research in astrophysics, gravitational physics or cosmology.
x Joule Medal        
Joule Medal for distinguished research in applied physics.
x Kelvin Medal   Institute of Physics Subject Prizes    
Kelvin Medal for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics.
x Mott Medal        
Mott Medal for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics.
x Payne-Gaposchkin Medal        
Payne-Gaposchkin Medal for distinguished research in plasma, solar or space physics.
x Rayleigh Medal        
Rayleigh Medal for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics.
x Rutherford Medal        
Rutherford Medal for distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology.
x Tabor Medal        
Tabor Medal for distinguished research in surface or nanoscale physics.
x Thomson Medal        
Thomson Medal for distinguished research in atomic or molecular physics.
x Young Medal        
Young Medal for distinguished research in optics including work related to physics outside the visible region.
x Maxwell Medal        
Maxwell Medal for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics.
x Moseley Medal        
Moseley Medal for distinguished research in experimental physics.
x Paterson Medal        
Paterson Medal for distinguished research in applied physics.
x Grace Murray Hopper Award        
The original Grace Murray Hopper Awards (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a young (age 35 or less) computer professional who makes a single...
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