Sloan Research Fellowship

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Sloan Research Fellowships

Country| Worldwide
Presented by| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
First awarded| 1955
Website| sloan.org/fellowships

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] Winners of these two-year fellowships are awarded $75,000, which may be spent on any expense supporting their research. From 2012 through 2020, the foundation awarded 126 research fellowships each year; in 2021, 128 were awarded, and 118 were awarded in 2022.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Eligibility and selection
* 2 Notable award recipients
* 2.1 Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Eligibility and selection

To be eligible, a candidate must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and must be a member of the faculty of a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada. The candidate must have teaching responsibilities and must be tenure-track but untenured as of September 15 of the nomination year. Only candidates with letters of nomination from department heads or other senior researchers are considered.

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]

An independent committee of distinguished scientists in each field selects the fellows based upon their research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their chosen field.

Since the inaugural class of 1955, 6,144 fellowships have been awarded, with faculty from the top ten universities representing over 35% of all fellows. MIT counts the most fellows at 309, followed by Berkeley at 291, Harvard at 242, Stanford at 237, and Princeton at 236.[5]

Institution  | Fellows (1955–2022)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology[6] | 309
University of California, Berkeley[7] | 291
Harvard University | 242
Stanford University[8] | 237
Princeton University[9] | 236
The University of Chicago[10] | 204
University of California, Los Angeles | 176
Columbia University[11] | 172
Cornell University | 159
California Institute of Technology | 154

## Notable award recipients

Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 53 fellows have won a Nobel Prize,[12] and 17 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.[13]

### Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates

Name  | Field[n 1] | Sloan year  | Prize year[n 2]

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Richard Feynman | Physics | 1955 | 1965
Murray Gell-Mann | Physics | 1957 | 1969
Leon N. Cooper | Physics | 1959 | 1972
Sheldon 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[14] | Physics | 1996 | 2020
Vladimir Voevodsky | Mathematics | 1997 | 2002
Andrei Okounkov | Mathematics | 2000 | 2006
Terence Tao | Mathematics | 1999 | 2006
Larry Guth | Mathematics | 2010 | 2014
David MacMillan | Chemistry | 2002 | 2021
Guido Imbens | Economics | 1995 | 2021
Moungi Bawendi | Chemistry | 1994 | 2023
John Hopfield | Physics | 1962 | 2024

Notes

1. ↑ Field of the Sloan fellowship
2. ↑ Unless stated, the prize was awarded in the same field as that of the Sloan fellowship

## See also

* List of chemistry awards
* List of computer science awards
* List of economics awards
* List of mathematics awards
* List of physics awards

## References

1. ↑ "90 Scientists and Economists Win Sloan Research Awards" (in en-US). The New York Times. March 10, 1985. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/10/nyregion/90-scientists-and-economists-win-sloan-research-awards.html.
2. ↑ "History". http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/history/.
3. ↑ "Sloan Research Fellowships". http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/.
4. ↑ "FAQ | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation". https://sloan.org/fellowships/faq.
5. ↑ "Sloan Research Fellows Database". https://sloan.org/fellows-database.
6. ↑ "Eight from MIT Named Sloan Research Fellows". February 19, 2021. https://news.mit.edu/2021/eight-from-mit-named-sloan-research-fellows-0219.
7. ↑ "Nine Young Faculty Named 2020 Sloan Fellows". February 12, 2020. https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/nine-young-faculty-named-2020-sloan-fellows/.
8. ↑ "2022 Stanford Sloan Research Fellows". February 15, 2022. https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/02/15/2022-stanford-sloan-research-fellows/.
9. ↑ "Five Princeton Faculty Members Named 2021 Sloan Fellows". February 17, 2021. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/02/17/five-princeton-faculty-members-named-2021-sloan-research-fellows.
10. ↑ "Five University of Chicago Scientists Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowships". February 15, 2022. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/five-university-chicago-scientists-awarded-prestigious-sloan-fellowships.
11. ↑ "Five Columbia Researchers Named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows". February 15, 2022. https://news.columbia.edu/news/five-columbia-researchers-named-2022-sloan-research-fellows.
12. ↑ "Nobel Laureates". http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/nobel-laureates/.
13. ↑ "Fields Medalists". http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/fields-medalists/.
14. ↑ "UCLA Galactic Center Group / SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS". 1995–2017. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/awards.html. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

## External links

* Sloan Research Fellowships official site
* 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships brochure

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