The Nevada Medal was established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement in science and engineering", and is presented by the Governor of Nevada. The previous recipients are:
- Verner Suomi
- Dwight Billings
- James A. Van Allen
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Carl Djerassi
- Margaret Bryan Davis
- John N. Bahcall
- Charles Elachi
- Hector F. DeLuca
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Lynn Margulis
- Wallace Broecker
- Harold Mooney
- John H. Seinfeld
- M. Gordon Wolman
- Charles Goldman
- Fakhri A. Bazzaz
- Farouk El-Baz
- Donald Grayson
- Walter Alvarez
- Susan Lindquist
- James E. Hansen
- Francis Collins
- Robert Ballard
- Steven Squyres
- Nina Fedoroff
- Albert Yu-Min Lin
- Christopher McKay
- Missy Cummings
- Marcia McNutt
- Kathryn Sullivan (2021)
References
- "About the DRI Nevada Medal". Desert Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- "2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space" (Press release). 25 November 2019.