Harvard Centennial Medal

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The Harvard Centennial Medal is an honor given by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recipients of graduate degrees from the School for their "contributions to society."

The Medal was established in 1989 on the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School's founding. Seven individuals were recognized for their achievements that year, and between two and four graduate degree recipients have been honored every year since then. Nominees are evaluated by university officials and alumni, and the winners are selected by the Harvard Corporation.

[edit] Winners

The Centennial Medal has been awarded to some of the Graduate School's most distinguished and influential degree holders. Among them are university presidents, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and MacArthur "geniuses".

• 2006 Daniel Callahan, Sandra Faber, Robert Solow, and Kevin Starr
• 2005 Michael Artin, H. Robert Horvitz, Elaine Pagels, and Michael Spence
• 2004 John Adams, Susan Fiske, Richard Hunt, and George Rupp
• 2003 Agnes Gund, Amy Gutmann, Leon Kass, and William Schneider
• 2002 Lewis Branscomb, Madhav Gadgil, Joanne Martin, and Allen Puckett
• 2001 Bernard Bailyn, Carolyn Bynum, Elliott Carter, and Walter Kohn
• 2000 Harold Amos, Stanley Cavell, and Jill Ker Conway
• 1999 Frances Fergusson, Nguyen Xuan Oanh, Carl Schorske, and Edward Wilson
• 1998 Sissela Bok, I. Bernard Cohen, and Richard Zare
• 1997 Richard Karp, Stuart Rice, Henry Rosovsky, and Ruth Simmons
• 1996 Leon Botstein, Victor Fung, Paul Guyer, and Maxine Kumin
• 1995 Philip Anderson and Zbigniew Brzezinski
• 1994 Hanna H. Gray, Roald Hoffmann, and Rosalind Krauss
• 1993 Renee Fox, Marilyn French, and Rolf Landauer
• 1992 Edward Bernstein, Stanley Kunitz, Alice Rivlin, and Saul Cohen
• 1991 Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Caryl Haskins, Wesley Posvar, and Susan Sontag
• 1990 Margaret Atwood, Samuel H. Beer, and Leo Kadanoff
• 1989 Thomas Eisner, Jesse Greenstein, Robert Motherwell, David Woodley Packard, Reginald Phelps, James Tobin, and Margaret Wilson

[edit] See also

• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

[edit] External links and references

• Harvard Centennial Medal page at the Harvard Graduate School