"Certain awards are annual, and some cycle differently--every two years, every five years," though all are given at the spring NAS meeting, says Mary Hofbauer Brown, NAS director of membership ...

The recipient of the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for 1992 is Nicholas J. Giordano, professor of physics. Professor Giordano is a condensed matter physicist whose interests include the behavior of ...

Following are the other recipients: Stanley B. Prusiner, a professor of neurology and biochemistry at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, was cited for his work on ...

On this day in 1992, Gary Lineker received the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year award for the second time. In what turned out to be his final season in European football before he ...