Sloan Research Fellowship

Sloan Research Fellowships
Sloan Research Fellowships
Awarded for	provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars
Country	Worldwide
Presented by	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
First awarded	1955
Website	Sloan Research Fellowships official site

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]

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] These two-year fellowships are awarded to 126 researchers yearly in the amount of $75,000.^[3]

Eligibility requirements[]

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]

Notable award recipients[]

Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 52 fellows have won a Nobel Prize,^[5] and 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.^[6]

Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates[]

Name	Field^{[n 1]}	Sloan year	Prize year^{[n 2]}
Richard Feynman	Physics	1955	1965
Murray Gell-Mann	Physics	1957	1969
Leon N. Cooper	Physics	1959	1972
Sheldon Lee Glashow	Physics	1962	1979
Steven Weinberg	Physics	1961	1979
Val L. Fitch	Physics	1960	1980
James W. Cronin	Physics	1962	1980
Kenneth G. Wilson	Physics	1963	1982
Jack Steinberger	Physics	1958	1988
Melvin Schwartz	Physics	1959	1988
Frederick Reines	Physics	1959	1995
Alan J. Heeger	Chemistry	1963	2000 (Physics)
Carl E. Wieman	Physics	1984	2001
David J. Gross	Physics	1970	2004
H. David Politzer	Physics	1977	2004
Frank Wilczek	Physics	1976	2004
Theodor W. Hänsch	Physics	1973	2005
Donna Strickland	Physics	1998	2018
Roald Hoffmann	Chemistry	1966	1981
Dudley R. Herschbach	Chemistry	1959	1986
Yuan T. Lee	Chemistry	1969	1986
John C. Polanyi	Chemistry	1959	1986
Elias J. Corey	Chemistry	1955	1990
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemistry	1960	1992
Mario J. Molina	Chemistry	1976	1995
Robert F. Curl, Jr.	Chemistry	1961	1996
Richard E. Smalley	Chemistry	1978	1996
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemistry	1978	1999
Alan G. MacDiarmid	Chemistry	1959	2000
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemistry	1973	2001
Robert H. Grubbs	Chemistry	1974	2005
Richard R. Schrock	Chemistry	1976	2005
Martin Karplus	Chemistry	1959	2013
Arieh Warshel	Chemistry	1978	2013
John Forbes Nash	Mathematics	1956	1994 (Economics)
Eric Maskin	Economics	1983	2007
Roger Myerson	Economics	1984	2007
Alvin E. Roth	Economics	1984	2012
Lars Peter Hansen	Economics	1982	2013
Jean Tirole	Economics	1985	2014
Stanley Prusiner	Neuroscience	1976	1997 (Medicine)
Paul Lauterbur	Chemistry	1965	2003 (Medicine)
Linda B. Buck	Neuroscience	1992	2004 (Medicine)
John Milnor	Mathematics	1955	1962
Paul Cohen	Mathematics	1962	1966
Stephen Smale	Mathematics	1960	1966
Heisuke Hironaka	Mathematics	1962	1970
John G. Thompson	Mathematics	1961	1970
David Mumford	Mathematics	1962	1974
Charles Fefferman	Mathematics	1970	1978
Daniel G. Quillen	Mathematics	1967	1978
William Thurston	Mathematics	1974	1982
Shing-Tung Yau	Mathematics	1974	1982
Michael H. Freedman	Mathematics	1980	1986
Vaughan Jones	Mathematics	1983	1990
Curtis T. McMullen	Mathematics	1988	1998
Andrea M. Ghez^[7]	Physics	1996	2020
Vladimir Voevodsky	Mathematics	1997	2002
Andrei Okounkov	Mathematics	2000	2006
Terence Tao	Mathematics	1999	2006
David MacMillan	Chemistry	2002	2021
Guido Imbens	Economics	1995	2021

Notes

^ Field of the Sloan fellowship
^ Unless stated, the prize was awarded in the same field as that of the Sloan fellowship

References[]

^ "90 Scientists and Economists Win Sloan Research Awards". The New York Times (in American English). 1985-03-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
^ "History". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
^ "Sloan Research Fellowships". www.sloan.org. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
^ https://sloan.org/fellowships/faq
^ "Nobel Laureates". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
^ "Fields Medalists". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
^ "UCLA Galactic Center Group / SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS". www.astro.ucla.edu. 1995–2017. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

External links[]

[7] Field of the Sloan fellowship

[8] Unless stated, the prize was awarded in the same field as that of the Sloan fellowship

[1] "90 Scientists and Economists Win Sloan Research Awards". The New York Times (in American English). 1985-03-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-27.

[:0-2] "History". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.

[3] "Sloan Research Fellowships". www.sloan.org. Retrieved 2016-01-22.

[4] ttps://sloan.org/fellowships/faq

[5] "Nobel Laureates". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-22.

[6] "Fields Medalists". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.

[9] "UCLA Galactic Center Group / SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS". www.astro.ucla.edu. 1995–2017. Retrieved 2021-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

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