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American Winners of UNESCO Prizes


March 11, 2008

2008 L’OREAL-UNESCO Award For Women in Science: University of California at San Francisco Professor Elizabeth Blackburn

2007 King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize: Curriki: The Global Education and Learning Community

2007 UNESO Great Man-Made River International Water Prize: Centre for the Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas at the University of Arizona, and the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Irvine.

2007 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science: U.S. Scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Mildred Dresselhaus.

2006 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science: California Institute of Technology at Pasadena Professor and leader of the biological research team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dr. Pamela Bjorkman.

2006 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence: Professor Herbert C. Kelman (Honorable Mention)

2001 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education: Ms Betty A. Reardon, Teachers College, Columbia University (Honorable Mention)

1998 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize: George J. Mitchell, American Senator and Special Adviser to the President of the United States of America for Initiatives in Ireland

1994 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize: Former President Jimmy Carter

1994 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Chris Cole, Racquetball

1993 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts: Ms. Susan Gamble and Mr. Michael Wenyon (UK and US)

1993 Carlos J. Finlay Prize (for Meritorious Work in Microbiology): Mr. James M. Tiedje, First Vice-Chairman of the International Society of Soil Sciences (IISS) Director, Centre for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University

1991 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education: Mrs. Ruth Leger Sivard, Economist, Analyst on World Military and Social Expenditures

1991 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Arthur Ashe, Tennis

1990 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education: The World Order Models Project Represented by Professor Saul Mendlovitz

1989 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Jean-Michel Henry, Fencing

1989 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Ms. Chris Evert, Tennis

1989 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education: Mr. Elise Boulding, International Peace Research Association

1987 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Cleveland Stroud, Basketball

1985 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. John B Kelly, Jr., Rowing (posthumous)

1981 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. Denis Flanagan

1977 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. John Naber, Swimming

1977 UNESCO-International Music Council Music Prize: Mr. Benny Goodman

1975 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Victor Niederhoffer, Squash and Mr. Bob Mathias, Decathlon

1975 UNESCO-International Music Council Music Prize: Mr. Yehudi Menuhin

1972 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Stan Smith, Tennis

1972 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. Philip H. Abelson

1970 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mrs. Margaret Mead

1965 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. Eugene Rabinowitch

1965 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies: Mr. Willye White, Long jump

1964 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. Warren Weaver

1962 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. Gerard Piel

1956 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science: Mr. George Gamow