Cosmos Club Award Recipients

The Cosmos Club Award "has been presented annually since 1964 to persons of national or international standing in a field of science, literature, the fine arts, the learned professions, or the public service. The Award and related expenses are supported by a grant from the Cosmos Club Foundation."

The Cosmos Club Award Recipients

• 1964 Elvin C. Stakman Biologist
• 1965 Henry Allen Moe Humanist
• 1966 Merle Antony Tuve Geophysicist
• 1967 McGeorge Bundy Foundation Executive
• 1968 Samuel Elliot Morrison Historian
• 1969 Robert D. Calkins Economist
• 1970 Edwin Herbert Land Scientist
• 1971 Kenneth Mackenzie Clark Art Historian
• 1972 Howard A. Rusk Physician
• 1973 Louis B. Wright Historian
• 1974 Horace M. Albright Conservationist
• 1975 Helen Hayes Actress
• 1976 Roger Tory Peterson Ornithologist-Artist
• 1977 Archibald MacLeish Poet
• 1978 Caryl P. Haskins Biologist
• 1979 Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox Classical Scholar
• 1980 John William Gardner Foundation Executive
• 1981 Lawrence McKinley Gould Geologist
• 1982 Lewis Thomas Physician
• 1983 Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Historian
• 1984 Paul A. Volker Economist
• 1985 Richard H. Bales Musician
• 1986 Albert B. Sabin Physician
• 1987 Jerome B. Wiesner Engineer
• 1988 S. Dillon Ripley Zoologist
• 1989 C. Everett Koop Surgeon
• 1990 James A. Van Allen Physicist
• 1991 Max M. Kampleman Diplomat
• 1992 W. Edwards Deming Statistician
• 1993 Gilbert F. White Geographer
• 1994 John Hope Franklin Historian
• 1995 Arthur Kornberg Biochemist
• 1996 Herbert Friedman Physicist
• 1997 Jonathan E. Rhoads Surgeon
• 1998 Sandra Day O'Connor Lawyer
• 1999 Jacob Rabinow Engineer
• 2000 Rita Rossi Colwell Biologist
• 2001 Donald A. B. Lindberg Physician
• 2002 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Public Servant
• 2003 Natalie Zemon Davis Historian
• 2004 Charles Yeager Aeronautics Pioneer
• 2005 Jim Lehrer Broadcast Journalist
• 2006 Elie Wiesel Humanitarian, Author