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Subject: THE AAAS SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AWARD
Subject: AAAS Scientific Freedom & Responsibility Award
Author: SCI-TECH (sci-tech-studies) {sci-tech-studies@kasey.umkc.edu} at
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Date: 5.23.95 1:35 PM
Please disseminate widely...
1996 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
THE AAAS SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AWARD
honoring exemplary scientists and engineers...
"Those scientists and engineers who act on behalf of scientific
freedom and responsibility under difficult circumstances...should
receive some appropriate recognition. This is in part to honor them,
but it also is to spread, among the scientific public in general,
awareness of the importance of maintaining scientific freedom and
responsibility" (John T. Edsall, professor emeritus of Harvard
University and former chairman of the AAAS Committee on Scientific
Freedom and Responsibility).
The Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award is presented annually
by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to honor
scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions have served to foster
scientific freedom and responsibility.
The Award recognizes scientists and engineers who have:
- acted to protect the public's health, safety, or welfare; or
- focused public attention on important potential impacts of
science and technology on society by their responsible
participation in public policy debates; or
- established important new precedents in carrying out the social
responsibilities or in defending the professional freedom of
scientists and engineers.
This annual award was established in 1980 and consists of a plaque and
$2500. The 1996 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award will be
presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, 8-13
February 1996. We hope that the presentation of this award will
inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers as they begin
their careers.
DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS 1 AUGUST 1995.
In recent years AAAS has honored...
Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov (1995) for his keen sense of social and
scientific responsibility, exercised at great personal risk, in
serving to protect health and safety by revealing secret and illegal
development of dangerous chemical weapons in the Soviet Union. After
exposing the continuing manufacture of these weapons in violation of
international agreements, Dr. Mirzayanov was fired and subsequently
arrested and imprisoned. His exceptional personal courage has served
to promote the health and safety of people throughout the world.
Mathilde Krim and June Osborn (1994) whose exemplary sense of social
and scientific responsibility in the face of the AIDS epidemic have
served to foster the public's health, safety, and welfare. Long
before such activities were fashionable, Drs. Krim and Osborn were
outspoken in their promotion of research efforts to find treatments
and a cure for AIDS, to stem the spread of HIV through prevention and
education, to dispel the ignorance about the disease and fear of those
who are infected, and to decry hatred directed against people with
AIDS.
Daniel L. Albritton and Robert T. Watson (1993) for leadership in
organizing research on stratospheric ozone destruction and responsibly
conveying this knowledge to the international negotiations designed to
protect the Earth's vital ozone shield, thereby developing the
foundation for international protocols for control of ozone-destroying
chemicals. Drs. Albritton and Watson worked together for fifteen
years, using their scientific credentials and expertise to inform the
political process in a socially responsible manner.
Inez Austin (1992), a senior engineer at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation in Richland, Washington, for her courageous and persistent
efforts to pre-empt potential safety hazards involving nuclear waste
contamination at Hanford. Ms. Austin's stand in the face of
harassment and intimidation reflects the paramount professional duty
of engineers -- to protect the public's health and safety -- and has
served as an inspiration to her co-workers.
We have also honored... Adrian Morrison for his extraordinary efforts
to promote and defend the responsible use of animals in research
despite the threats of bodily harm directed against him and his
family; Francisco Ayala, Norman Newell, and Stanley Weinberg for
alerting scientists to the threats creationism poses to academic
freedom and science education, and providing leadership in mobilizing
opposition among scientists and teachers to challenges the creationist
movement poses to the integrity of science; Colegio Medico do Chile
(Medical Association of Chile) for its professional and humanitarian
efforts to stop the practice of torture in Chile; Anatoly Koryagin, a
psychiatrist in the Soviet Union, for his courageous and responsible
defense, at personal and professional cost, of the principle that
medical knowledge and skills should under no circumstances be used for
the purpose of suppressing political dissent.
To submit a nomination...
Send us your name, address, and phone number; and the name(s) and
address(es) of the nominee.
- A summary of the action(s) that form the basis for the nomination
(about 250 words).
- A longer statement (no more than three pages) providing
additional details of the action(s) for which the candidate is
nominated.
- At least two letters of support, with addresses and phone
numbers.
- The candidate's vita (no more than three pages).
- Any documentation (books, articles, or other materials) that
illuminates the significance of the nominee's achievement may
also be submitted. All materials become property of AAAS.
Please submit all information to:
Office of Development
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1333 H Street, NW, Room 1146
Washington, DC 20005
(202)326-6636 (phone); (202)789-2009 (fax)
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