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A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc.

    List of prizes, medals, and awards
            Science and technology (general and miscellaneous)
            Agriculture
            Astronomy
            Aviation and space technology
            Biological sciences
            Chemistry
            Computer science, engineering, technology and invention
            Geology
            Mathematics
            Medicine|Medical sciences
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        See also

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Science and technology (general and miscellaneous)

Albert Einstein World Award of Science -- true benefit and well being to mankind (World Cultural Council)

Alexander Agassiz Medal -- a medal and a prize of $15,000 awarded every three years for original contribution in the science of oceanography by the US National Academy of Sciences

Automotive X PRIZE -- super-efficient vehicle competition designed to decrease oil consumption and harmful emissions http://auto.xprize.org

Balzan Prize -- international prize for humanities, natural sciences and culture, as well as humanitarian endeavours for peace

Copley Medal -- Physical Sciences and the Biological Sciences (Royal Society of London)

Dan David Prize -- annually honors scientists working on the "Future Dimension," with the topic rotating each year ($1 million prize)

Demidov Prize - prize established in 1831 for humanities and natural sciences and annually awarded to russian scientists in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Ho-Am Prize -- Korean awards for the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind

Hubbard Medal -- National Geographic Society award for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research

Kavli Prize

Kilby International Awards http://www.kilby.org

Basic Sciences (Inamori Foundation)

Arts and Philosophy (Inamori Foundation)

King Faisal Foundation Prize -- King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder and the Kingdom's third monarch. Prizes for Service to Islam, Islamic Studies and Arabic Literature were established in 1977 and first awarded in 1979. In 1981 the Prize Board added Medicine; Science was included in 1982.

Public Service (Lasker Foundation)

Lenin Prize -- formerly awarded to Soviet citizens for achievements in arts and letters, cinema, mathematics, sciences and other disciplines.

Lomonosov Gold Medal -- Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Marcel Benoist Prize -- Swiss prize for Sciences and the Humanities (Swiss Confederation)

NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement

National Medal of Science -- given by the President of the United States on recommendation of the National Science Foundation to scientists and engineers in behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

National Medal of Technology -- American award for leading innovators.

Nicholas Appert Award -- given by the Institute of Food Technologists for lifetime contributions to food technology.

Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, annual, $25,000.

Economics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Prince of Asturias Awards -- Sciences, Public Affairs, Humanities (Felipe, Prince of Asturias)

Rumford Medal -- (Royal Society) restricted to scientists working in Europe

Rumford Prize -- (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Shaw Prize

Vannevar Bush Award -- welfare of mankind and the nation (National Science Foundation)

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Agriculture

Wolf Prize in Agriculture (Wolf Foundation)

World Food Prize

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Astronomy

Bruce Medal -- outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics -- awarded by American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

George Van Biesbroeck Prize -- Astronomy

James Craig Watson Medal -- Astronomy (National Academy of Sciences)

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Aviation and space technology

America's Space Prize

ANSARI X PRIZE -- Private suborbital spaceflight, won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures

NASA Centennial Challenges

Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization

NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering -- aeronautical engineering

Orteig Prize -- Aviation for trans-atlantic crossing, won by Charles Lindbergh

Sikorsky Prize - Human Powered Helicopters

Spaceward Space Elevator Games

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Biological sciences

Clarke Medal -- awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales (Australia) for distinguished work in the Natural sciences

D.L. Serventy Medal -- Ornithology (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union)

Franklin Award -- for open access in biology (Bioinformatics Organization)

John Hobbs Medal -- Ornithology (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union)

Medicine (Karolinska Institute)

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Chemistry

Otto-Hahn-Prize -- awarded by the German Chemical Society, the German Physical Society an the City of Frankfurt am Main.

Glenn T. Seaborg Medal -- Chemistry and Biochemistry (UCLA)

Fritz Pregl Prize -- Austrian award in Chemistry (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Chemistry (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Priestley Medal -- Chemistry (American Chemical Society)

Chemistry (Wolf Foundation)

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Computer science, engineering, technology and invention

ACM Turing Award

Charles Stark Draper Prize

EFF Pioneer Award

Enrico Fermi Award -- for lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy.

FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

Franklin Medal -- for innovation (Franklin Institute)

Gibbs Brothers Medal -- Naval architecture, Marine engineering (National Academy of Sciences).

Gödel Prize Award for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science

IEEE John von Neumann Medal

IEEE Medal of Honor

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

IEEE Edison Medal -- a gold medal for achievement in electrical science, engineering or arts

IEEE Nikola Tesla Award -- for electric power

IJCAI Award for Research Excellence

IPRIZE

The Japan Prize

Knuth reward check

Knuth Prize

Advanced Technology (Inamori Foundation)

Lemelson-MIT Prize

Longitude prize -- precise determination of a ship's longitude

Marconi Prize -- advancements in communications

Millennium Technology Prize -- for outstanding technological achievements

Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility

Perkin Medal

Pirelli ''Internet''ional Award

Tony Kent Strix award

Timoshenko Medal (ASME)

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Geology

Aberconway Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Lyell Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Major Edward D'Ewes Fitzgerald Coke Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Major John Sacheverell A'Deane Coke Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Murchison Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Prestwich Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Sue Tyler Friedman Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Thorarinsson Medal -- Volcanology

William Smith Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

Wollaston Medal -- Geology (Geological Society of London)

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Mathematics

Abel Prize

Bôcher Memorial Prize

Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize

Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems

Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize

Fulkerson Prize

John von Neumann Theory Prize

Lobachevsky International Prize

Loève Prize

Modesto Panetti Prize

Nevanlinna Prize

Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics

Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

Ramanujan Prize

Salem Prize

Schock Prize in Mathematics

Shaw Prize

Steele Prize

Wolf Prize in Mathematics

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Medicine|Medical sciences

Clinical Medical Research (Lasker Foundation)

Danone International Prize for Nutrition

Methuselah Mouse Prize -- or M-Prize modeled after the X-Prize

Medicine (Karolinska Institute)

Medicine (Wolf Foundation)

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Physics

Comstock Prize in Physics -- awarded by the National Academy of Sciences about every five years.

Otto-Hahn-Prize -- awarded by the German Chemical Society, the German Physical Society and the City of Frankfurt am Main.

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics -- awarded by American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics -- awarded by American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics

Dirac Prize – there are two prizes with the same name. "Dirac Medal of the ICTP" is given each year by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). "The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".