Sloan Research Fellowship

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Sloan Research Fellowships
Awarded forrecognition of distinguished performance by early career researchers and their unique potential to make substantial contributions
CountryWorldwide
Presented by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
First awarded1955
Website sloan.org/fellowships

The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. [1]

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Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Awards were later added in neuroscience (1972), economics (1980), computer science (1993), computational and evolutionary molecular biology (2002), and ocean sciences or earth systems sciences (2012). [2] Winners of these two-year fellowships are awarded $75,000, which may be spent on any expense supporting their research. From 2012 through 2020, the foundation awarded 126 research fellowship each year; in 2021, 128 were awarded, and 118 were awarded in 2022. [3]

Eligibility and selection

To be eligible, a candidate must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and must be a member of the faculty of a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada. The candidate must have teaching responsibilities and must be tenure-track but untenured as of September 15 of the nomination year. Only candidates with letters of nomination from department heads or other senior researchers are considered.

The foundation has been supportive of scientists who are parents by allowing them extra time after their doctorate during which they remain eligible for the award. [4]

An independent committee of distinguished scientists in each field selects the fellows based upon their research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their chosen field.

Since the inaugural class of 1955, 6,144 fellowships have been awarded, with faculty from the top ten universities representing over 35% of all fellows. MIT counts the most fellows at 309, followed by Berkeley at 291, Harvard at 242, Stanford at 237, and Princeton at 236. [5]

InstitutionFellows (1955–2022)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [6] 309
University of California, Berkeley [7] 291
Harvard University 242
Stanford University [8] 237
Princeton University [9] 236
The University of Chicago [10] 204
University of California, Los Angeles 176
Columbia University [11] 172
Cornell University 159
California Institute of Technology 154

    Notable award recipients

    Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 53 fellows have won a Nobel Prize, [12] and 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics. [13]

    Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates

    NameField [n 1] Sloan yearPrize year [n 2]
    Richard Feynman Physics19551965
    Murray Gell-Mann Physics19571969
    Leon N. Cooper Physics19591972
    Sheldon Glashow Physics19621979
    Steven Weinberg Physics19611979
    Val L. Fitch Physics19601980
    James W. Cronin Physics19621980
    Kenneth G. Wilson Physics19631982
    Jack Steinberger Physics19581988
    Melvin Schwartz Physics19591988
    Frederick Reines Physics19591995
    Alan J. Heeger Chemistry19632000 (Physics)
    Carl E. Wieman Physics19842001
    David J. Gross Physics19702004
    H. David Politzer Physics19772004
    Frank Wilczek Physics19762004
    Theodor W. Hänsch Physics19732005
    Donna Strickland Physics19982018
    Roald Hoffmann Chemistry19661981
    Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry19591986
    Yuan T. Lee Chemistry19691986
    John C. Polanyi Chemistry19591986
    Elias J. Corey Chemistry19551990
    Rudolph A. Marcus Chemistry19601992
    Mario J. Molina Chemistry19761995
    Robert F. Curl, Jr. Chemistry19611996
    Richard E. Smalley Chemistry19781996
    Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry19781999
    Alan G. MacDiarmid Chemistry19592000
    K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry19732001
    Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry19742005
    Richard R. Schrock Chemistry19762005
    Martin Karplus Chemistry19592013
    Arieh Warshel Chemistry19782013
    John Forbes Nash Mathematics19561994 (Economics)
    Eric Maskin Economics19832007
    Roger Myerson Economics19842007
    Alvin E. Roth Economics19842012
    Lars Peter Hansen Economics19822013
    Jean Tirole Economics19852014
    Stanley Prusiner Neuroscience19761997 (Medicine)
    Paul Lauterbur Chemistry19652003 (Medicine)
    Linda B. Buck Neuroscience19922004 (Medicine)
    John Milnor Mathematics19551962
    Paul Cohen Mathematics19621966
    Stephen Smale Mathematics19601966
    Heisuke Hironaka Mathematics19621970
    John G. Thompson Mathematics19611970
    David Mumford Mathematics19621974
    Charles Fefferman Mathematics19701978
    Daniel G. Quillen Mathematics19671978
    William Thurston Mathematics19741982
    Shing-Tung Yau Mathematics19741982
    Michael H. Freedman Mathematics19801986
    Vaughan Jones Mathematics19831990
    Curtis T. McMullen Mathematics19881998
    Andrea M. Ghez [14] Physics19962020
    Vladimir Voevodsky Mathematics19972002
    Andrei Okounkov Mathematics20002006
    Terence Tao Mathematics19992006
    Larry Guth Mathematics20102014
    David MacMillan Chemistry20022021
    Guido Imbens Economics19952021
    Notes
    1. Field of the Sloan fellowship
    2. Unless stated, the prize was awarded in the same field as that of the Sloan fellowship

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