The NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "to recognize authors whose reviews have synthesized extensive and difficult material, rendering a significant service to science and influencing the course of scientific thought." It has been awarded annually in specific fields since 1979.

List of NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing winners

• 2013: Bruce Kleiner and John Lott (mathematics)
• 2012: Larry R. Squire (neuroscience)
• 2011: Thomas J. Sargent (economics)
• 2010: John Alroy (geosciences)
• 2009: Roger W. Hendrix (genetics)
• 2008: Alejandro Portes (social and political sciences)
• 2007: Geoffrey R. Burbidge (astronomy)
• 2006: Peter Vitousek (environmental science)
• 2005: Daniel L. Schacter (psychology)
• 2004: Donald G. Truhlar (chemical physics)
• 2003: Stuart H. Hurlbert (ecology)
• 2002: Roy G. D'Andrade (anthropology)
• 2001: Milton W. Cole (materials science)
• 2000: Charles F. Stevens (neuroscience)
• 1999: James M. Poterba (economics)
• 1998: James R. Holton (geology/geophysics)
• 1997: Paul Harvey (evolutionary biology)
• 1996: Jeffrey S. Banks (social/political sciences)
• 1995: Robion C. Kirby (mathematics)
• 1994: Thomas M. Jessell (developmental biology)
• 1993: Janet Taylor Spence (psychology)
• 1992: Robert T. Watson (chemistry)
• 1991: Alexander N. Glazer (botany)
• 1990: James N. Spuhler (anthropology)
• 1989: Sidney R. Coleman (physics)
• 1988: Eric R. Kandel (cell biology)
• 1987: Gardner Lindzey (psychology)
• 1986: Virginia Trimble (astronomy)
• 1985: Ira Herskowitz (biochemistry)
• 1984: Ernest R. Hilgard (psychology)
• 1983: Michael E. Fisher (critical phenomena)
• 1982: Victor A. McKusick (genetics)
• 1981: John S. Chipman (economics)
• 1980: W. Conyers Herring (applied physics)
• 1979: G. Alan Robinson (pharmacology)

See also

• List of prizes

External links

• NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing National Academy of Sciences web site