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

Science and technology

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 US$15,000 awarded every three years for original contribution in the science of oceanography by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Automotive X PRIZE - Super-efficient vehicle design competition.^[1]
• Balzan Prize - international prize for humanities, natural sciences and culture, as well as humanitarian endeavours for peace
• Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis - biennial international award for applied laser technology (Foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung)
• Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (PNC Bank Delaware)
• Copley Medal - Physical Sciences and the Biological Sciences (Royal Society of London)
• Crafoord Prize - Sweden
• Dan David Prize - US$1 million prize honouring scientists in the field of "Future Dimension."
• 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
• Humboldt Research Award
• Japan Prize
• John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies
• Kavli Prize
• Kyoto Prize - Inamori Foundation Japan
• 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 (Switzerland) - for Sciences and the Humanities
• 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.
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Nuclear-Free Future Award awarded annually
• Otto Hahn Medal - awarded annual by the Max Planck Society
• Prince of Asturias Awards - Sciences, Public Affairs, Humanities (Felipe, Prince of Asturias)
• Rumelhart Prize - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
• Rumford Medal - (Royal Society) restricted to scientists working in Europe
• Rumford Prize - (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
• Rutherford Medal - (Royal Society of New Zealand)
• Shaw Prize
• State Science and Technology Prizes - The highest award granted for Science and Technology in China
• Vannevar Bush Award - welfare of mankind and the nation (National Science Foundation)
• Wayne B. Nottingham Prize - awarded annually for outstanding doctoral research in surface science.
• Werner-von-Siemens-Ring - tributes to persons who have promoted the technical sciences

Agriculture

• Wolf Prize in Agriculture (Wolf Foundation)
• World Food Prize

Astronomy

• Bruce Medal - awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Klumpke-Roberts Award - awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Robert J. Trumpler Award - awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Amateur Achievement Award - awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics - Astrophysics - awarded by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (of England)
• George Van Biesbroeck Prize - Astronomy - awarded by the American Astronomical Society
• James Craig Watson Medal - Astronomy - awarded by the National Academy of Sciences

Aviation and space technology

• America's Space Prize
• ANSARI X PRIZE - Private suborbital spaceflight, won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures
• NASA Centennial Challenges
• Coupe Femina - Early aviation award for record breaking non-stop flights
• Collier Trophy - A current award in the aviation field
• Google Lunar X Prize - An award for successfully launching, landing, and operating a rover on the lunar surface.
• Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning
• Harmon Trophy
• Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization
• Kremer prizes - Human-powered flight
• Orteig Prize - Aviation for trans-atlantic crossing, won by Charles Lindbergh
• Polaris Award
• Sikorsky Prize - Human Powered Helicopters
• Wright Brothers Medal

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)
• E. B. Wilson Medal
• Franklin Award - for open access in biology (Bioinformatics Organization)
• Global Environmental Citizen Award - by the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment
• John Hobbs Medal - Ornithology (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union)
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize - in Biology and Biochemistry (Columbia University)
• Loye and Alden Miller Research Award - Ornithology (Cooper Ornithological Society)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Karolinska Institute)

Chemistry

• Alfred Stock Memorial Prize - awarded for "outstanding independent scientific experimental investigation in the field of inorganic chemistry" by the German Chemical Society.
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize- in Biochemistry (Columbia University)
• Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Chemistry and Biochemistry (UCLA)
• Fritz Pregl Prize - Austrian award in Chemistry (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• Kołos Medal - awarded by the University of Warsaw and the Polish Chemical Society
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Perkin Medal - awarded by the American Chemical Society
• Priestley Medal - Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
• Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Wolf Foundation)

Computer science, engineering, technology and invention

• ACM Turing Award
• Alfred Noble Prize
• Charles Stark Draper Prize
• CODiE Award
• EFF Pioneer Award
• Enrico Fermi Award - for lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy.
• Faraday Medal - notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology
• FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
• Gibbs Brothers Medal - Naval architecture, Marine engineering (National Academy of Sciences).
• Gödel Prize Award for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science
• Herbrand Award for outstanding contributions to the field of automated deduction
• IEEE David Sarnoff Award
• 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
• Knuth reward check
• Knuth Prize
• Lemelson-MIT Prize
• Longitude prize - precise determination of a ship's longitude
• Marconi Prize - advancements in communications
• Millennium Technology Prize - for outstanding technological achievements
• Netflix Prize
• Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
• Pirelli Internetional Award
• Tony Kent Strix award
• Timoshenko Medal (ASME)
• The ASME Medal (ASME)
• Elmer A. Sperry Award (ASME)

Energy

• Energy Globe Awards (World Awards for Sustainability)

Geology

• Aberconway Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Ambrose Medal - Geology (Geological Association of Canada)
• Arthur L. Day Medal - Geology (Geological Society of America)
• Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal - Precambrian Geology (National Academy of Sciences)
• E. R. Ward Neale Medal - Geology (Geological Association of Canada)
• Logan Medal - Geology (Geological Association of Canada)
• Lyell Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Murchison Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Penrose Medal - Geology (Geological Society of America)
• Prestwich Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• R. J. W. Douglas Medal - Petroleum geology (Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists)
• Sue Tyler Friedman Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Thorarinsson Medal - Volcanology
• William H. Twenhofel Medal - Sedimentary Geology (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
• William Smith Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Wollaston Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
• Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award - Geology (Geological Association of Canada)

Geography

• Murchison Award - awarded by the Royal Geographical Society for the greatest contribution to geographical science
• Hubbard Medal - awarded by the National Geographic Society
• Victoria Medal - awarded by the Royal Geographical Society for conspicuous (sic) in Geography
• Founder's and Patron's Medal - the highest award given by the Royal Geographical Society
• Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud - awarded by an international jury at the annual International Geography Festival in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Mathematics

• Abel Prize
• Adams Prize
• Bôcher Memorial Prize
• Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize
• Chauvenet Prize
• Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems
• Clay Research Award
• Cole Prize
• De Morgan Medal
• Euler Medal
• Fermat Prize
• Fields Medal
• Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize
• Fröhlich Prize
• Fulkerson Prize
• J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
• John Bates Clark Medal - Economics
• John von Neumann Theory Prize
• Kirkman medal
• Lesilie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis
• Lobachevsky International Prize
• Loève Prize
• Nevanlinna Prize
• Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
• Ostrowski Prize
• Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
• Pólya Prize
• SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
• Salem Prize
• Schock Prize - Mathematics
• Shaw Prize
• Steele Prize
• Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Medical sciences

• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research/Lasker Foundation (US).^[2]
• Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research/Lasker Foundation (US).^[2]
• Aldridge Medal
• British Orthodontic Society Distinguished Orthodontic Technicians Award
• British Orthodontic Society Technicians Award
• Danone International Prize for Nutrition
• Gairdner Foundation International Awards (Canada).^[2]
• Keio Medical Science Prize (Japan).^[2]
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (US).^[2]
• Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction (Susan G. Komen for the Cure)
• Prince Mahidol Award (Thailand).^[2]
• Methuselah Mouse Prize - or M-Prize modeled after the X-Prize
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine/Karolinska Institute (Sweden).^[2]
• Robert L. Noble Prize/National Cancer Institute of Canada (Canada)
• Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize (Japan).^[2]
• Wolf Prize in Medicine/Wolf Foundation, (Israel).^[2]
• Archon X PRIZE (X Prize Foundation)

Physics

• Comstock Prize in Physics - awarded by the National Academy of Sciences about every five years.
• 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".
• Henry Draper Medal - Astrophysics (National Academy of Sciences)
• Hughes Medal - Electricity and Magnetism (Royal Society of London)
• J. Tuzo Wilson Medal - Geophysics (Canadian Geophysical Union)
• Lorentz Medal - awarded every four years to a scientist in recognition of important contributions to theoretical physics.
• Matteucci Medal - awarded each year to a physicist for fundamental contributions in the progress of science
• Nobel Prize in Physics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Sakurai Prize (awarded by American Physical Society)
• Wolf Prize in Physics (Wolf Foundation)

Social sciences

• Holberg International Memorial Prize
• Jean Nicod Prize
• Governor's Award (Albania)

Humanities

• Holberg International Memorial Prize
• Konrad Adenauer Research Award for Canadian scholars in the humanities and social sciences
• U.S. Library of Congress John W. Kluge Prize
• USA's Kennedy Center Honors: list of recipients
• Ho-Am Prize in the Arts
• Salimbeni Prize for a book in the field of art history
• Wolf Prize in Arts
• Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize

Architecture

(See also List of architecture prizes)

• Pritzker Prize
• Stirling Prize
• AIA Gold Medal
• Prémio Valmor (Portugal)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Architecture

Arts

• Abd-el-Tif prize
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Painting
• Archibald Prize, Australia's premier portraiture award
• Beck's Futures
• Bungeishunjū Manga Award
• Carnegie Prize
• CPS Principal's Championship
• Factor Prize in Southern Art
• Green Room Awards
• Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize for outstanding contributions in Italian Art History
• Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts
• Osamu Tezuka Culture Award
• Prix de Rome
• Puvis de Chavannes Prize
• Saint-Affrique Prize
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts
• Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
• Tezuka Award for manga
• Turner Prize

Design

• Alcuin Society Book Design Awards
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Graphic Design
• Apple Design Awards
• Compasso d'Oro
• European Design Awards
• Industrial Design Excellence Award
• National Design Award
• Red dot design award
• Yahoo! Sharpener Award

Education

• Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education
• Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards

History

• Bancroft Prize
• Beveridge Award
• Pulitzer Prize for History

Journalism

• Cavling prize (Denmark)
• CPJ International Press Freedom Award
• DuPont-Columbia Award
• Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
• George Foster Peabody Award - Broadcast journalism
• John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Awards^[3]
• Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage^[4] (Germany)*NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
• Ortega y Gasset Award
• Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
• World Association of Newspapers's Golden Pen of Freedom Award

• Pulitzer Prize for
  • Beat Reporting
  • Breaking News Reporting
  • Breaking News Photography
  • Commentary
  • Criticism
  • Editorial Cartooning
  • Editorial Writing
  • Explanatory Reporting
  • Feature Photography
  • Feature Writing
  • International Reporting
  • Investigative Reporting
  • National Reporting
  • Public Service
• Robert Capa Gold Medal - awarded for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".
• Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award
• NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
• Ortega y Gasset Award
• Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage^[5] (Germany)
• John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Awards^[6]
• CPJ International Press Freedom Award
• World Association of Newspapers's Golden Pen of Freedom Award
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
• Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
• Cavling prize, Denmark
• Walkley Award, (Australia)

Language

• Linguapax Prize

Literature

Main articles: List of literary awards and List of poetry awards

Theology

• Holberg International Memorial Prize
• The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award
• Templeton Prize

Business and management

• Deming Prize for Quality
• European IST Grand Prize
• Henry Laurence Gantt Medal
• Japan Quality Medal
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
• Nikkei QC Literature Prize
• Ron Brown Award
• Qimpro Benchmark Competition - for excellence in business excellence
• Entrepreneurship Award
• European Business Awards
• Bryce Hentges Award - Best Business Ever
• Woodrow Wilson Awards for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institute.

Logic and philosophy

• Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Law

• Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law
• Holberg International Memorial Prize
• Manuel Maria de Peralta Prize (Costa Rica)

Politics

• Lawrence O'Brien Award in Democratic Politics
• Profiles in Courage Award

Humanitarianism and service

• Albert Medal - for contribution to society (Royal Society of Arts)
• Brandeis Award - pro-privacy
• Community of Christ International Peace Award
• Fletcher Foundation, Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship - for contributions to civil rights
• Franklin Medal - for Anglo-American cooperation (Royal Society of Arts)
• Freedom Award
• Gandhi Peace Prize
• Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold - awarded by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) and the Governing Mayor of Berlin
• Herder Prize - promotion of art and scientific relations in Central and Southeastern Europe
• Ho-Am Prize: Community Service
• Human Rights Medal (Australia)
• International Peace Prize - awarded by the World Peace Council
• Joliot-Curie Golden Medal of Peace - awarded by the World Peace Council
• Karlspreis
• Lenin Peace Prize
• Leo J. Ryan Award, in honor and memory of the only member of Congress to be killed in the line of duty - Congressman Leo J. Ryan
• Library of Congress Living Legend
• MacArthur Fellowship
• Man of the Year/Person of the Year (Time Magazine)
• Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership a $5 million award for African heads of state for development achievement
• Nansen Refugee Award
• Nobel Peace Prize (Parliament of Norway)
• Pearson Medal of Peace
• Ramon Magsaysay award - for achievement by Asians
• Right Livelihood Award
• Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought
• Spingarn Medal - for achievement by Black Americans
• Takeda Award
• Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
• Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
• U Thant Peace Award - honours individuals or organizations for accomplishments toward the attainment of world peace
• Verodiano award
• Wateler Peace Prize - awarded by the Carnegie Foundation
• Woodrow Wilson Awards for Public Service - awarded by the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institute.

Scouting

For more details on this topic, see List of highest awards in Scouting.

See also: Category:Scout and Guide awards

• Bronze Award (Girl Scouts of the USA)
• Chief Scout's Award (Canada)
• Cornwell Decoration
• Crown Scout (Belgium)
• Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
• Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)
• Eagle Scout (Philippines)
• Explorer Belt
• Gold Award (Girl Scouts of the USA)
• King's Scout Award, Malaysia and Thailand
• Pramuka Garuda (Eagle Scout, Indonesia)
• Queen's Scout
• Queen's Venturer Award
• Silver Award (Boy Scouts of America)
• Silver Award (Girl Scouts of the USA)
• Tiger Scout (Korea Scout Association)

See also: Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America)

Honours, military and patriotic medals

Category: Orders, decorations, and medals

Commonwealth and its member states

United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations

• British honours system
• List of people who have declined a British honour
• British and Commonwealth orders and decorations
  • Victoria Cross (VC)
  • Order of the Garter (KG)
• 100 Greatest Britons (result BBC poll in 2002)
• 100 Worst Britons (result Channel 4 poll in 2003)

Australia

Main article: Australian Honours System

• Australian of the Year
• Cross of Valour
• Order of Australia
• Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award

Bangladesh

• Bir Sreshtho
• Bir Uttom
• Bir Bikrom
• Bir Protik

Canada

Main articles: Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada and List of Canadian awards

India

• Bharat Ratna
• Gandhi Peace Prize
• Padma Vibhushan
• Padma Bhushan
• Padma Shri
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Military gallantry awards:

• Param Vir Chakra
• Ashoka Chakra
• Maha Vir Chakra
• Vir Chakra
• Shaurya Chakra
• Kirti Chakra

Military distinguished service awards:

• Param Visisht Seva Medal
• Ati Visisht Seva Medal
• Visisht Seva Medal

New Zealand

Main article: New Zealand Honours System

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lankabhimanya

Main article: Awards and decorations of the military of Sri Lanka

Military gallantry awards:

• Parama Weera Vibhushanaya
• Weerodara Vibhushanaya
• Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya
• Rana Wickrama Padakkama
• Rana Sura Padakkama

Military distinguished service awards:

• Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya
• Uttama Seva Padakkama
• Videsha Seva Padakkama
• Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal

South Africa

Main article: South African Orders, Decorations and Medals

Other nations

Austria

• Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (Austrian Decorations of Honor)
• Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art)
• Imperial and former Austrian Orders of Merit

Belgium

• Order of Leopold
• Order of the Crown
• Order of Leopold II

Czech Republic

• Order of the White Lion
• Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order
• Medal for Heroism
• Medal of Merit

Denmark

• Order of the Elephant (Elefantordenen)
• Order of the Dannebrog (Dannebrogordenen)

Estonia

• Order of the National Coat of Arms
• Order of the White Star
• Order of the Cross of the Eagle
• Order of the Estonian Red Cross
• Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana