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)
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