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The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world. According to the AAAS, exemplary actions include "acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates."


== History ==
The establishment of this new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was announced by AAAS executive officer William D. Carey on 23 October 1980. The award, presented for the first time at the 1982 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, consisted of a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000.


== Recipients ==
1982 - Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Norton Zinder, Morris H. Baslow
1983 - Anatoly Koryagin, Jose Westerkamp
1985 - Werner A. Baum
1986 - Colegio Medico de Chile, Victor Paschkis
1987 - Stanley L. Weinberg, Norman D. Newell, Francisco J. Ayala
1988 - Richard L. Garwin, Roger M. Boisjoly
1989 - Robert L. Sprague, Natural Resources Defense Council
1990 - Matthew S. Meselson
1991 - Adrian R. Morrison
1992 - Inez Austin
1993 - Daniel L. Albritton, Robert T. Watson
1994 - June E. Osborn, Mathilde Krim
1995 - Vil Mirzayanov
1996 - Daniel Callahan
1997 - Salim Kheirbek
1998 - JoAnn Burkholder
1999 - Joel L. Lebowitz
2000 - Alexander Nikitin
2001 - Howard K. Schachman
2002 - L. Dennis Smith
2003 - Walter Reich
2004 - rDNA Advisory Committee
2005 - David Michaels
2006 - Eugenie Scott, Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy
2007 - James Hansen
2008 - Drummond Rennie
2009 - Nancy Olivieri
2010 - Elizabeth Loftus
2011 - J. David Jentsch, Edythe D. London, and Dario Ringach
2012 - Kiyoshi Kurokawa
2013 - Hoosen Coovadia
2014 - Omid Kokabee
2015 - Jean Maria Arrigo
2016 - Kurt Gottfried
2017 - Award date adjusted – see 2018
2018 - Mark Edwards
2019 - Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake
2020 - Erin Kimmerle
2021 - Ricardo Galvão
2022 - Ronald W. Jones
2023 - Peter Hotez
2024 - Eric Stover
2025 - Encieh Erfani
2026 - Morteza Mahmoudi


== See also ==
AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy
AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Newcomb Cleveland Prize


== References ==


== External links ==
Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility – AAAS