Sloan Research Fellowship

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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]

Awarded forrecognition of distinguished performance by early career researchers and their unique potential to make substantial contributions
CountryWorldwide
Presented byAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
First award1955
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Sloan Research Fellowships
Awarded forrecognition of distinguished performance by early career researchers and their unique potential to make substantial contributions
CountryWorldwide
Presented byAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
First award1955
Websitesloan.org/fellowships
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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]

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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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]

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Institution Fellows (1955–2022)
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
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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

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Name Field[n 1] Sloan year Prize year[n 2]
Richard FeynmanPhysics19551965
Murray Gell-MannPhysics19571969
Leon N. CooperPhysics19591972
Sheldon GlashowPhysics19621979
Steven WeinbergPhysics19611979
Val L. FitchPhysics19601980
James W. CroninPhysics19621980
Kenneth G. WilsonPhysics19631982
Jack SteinbergerPhysics19581988
Melvin SchwartzPhysics19591988
Frederick ReinesPhysics19591995
Alan J. HeegerChemistry19632000 (Physics)
Carl E. WiemanPhysics19842001
David J. GrossPhysics19702004
H. David PolitzerPhysics19772004
Frank WilczekPhysics19762004
Theodor W. HänschPhysics19732005
Donna StricklandPhysics19982018
Roald HoffmannChemistry19661981
Dudley R. HerschbachChemistry19591986
Yuan T. LeeChemistry19691986
John C. PolanyiChemistry19591986
Elias J. CoreyChemistry19551990
Rudolph A. MarcusChemistry19601992
Mario J. MolinaChemistry19761995
Robert F. Curl, Jr.Chemistry19611996
Richard E. SmalleyChemistry19781996
Ahmed H. ZewailChemistry19781999
Alan G. MacDiarmidChemistry19592000
K. Barry SharplessChemistry19732001
Robert H. GrubbsChemistry19742005
Richard R. SchrockChemistry19762005
Martin KarplusChemistry19592013
Arieh WarshelChemistry19782013
John Forbes NashMathematics19561994 (Economics)
Eric MaskinEconomics19832007
Roger MyersonEconomics19842007
Alvin E. RothEconomics19842012
Lars Peter HansenEconomics19822013
Jean TiroleEconomics19852014
Stanley PrusinerNeuroscience19761997 (Medicine)
Paul LauterburChemistry19652003 (Medicine)
Linda B. BuckNeuroscience19922004 (Medicine)
John MilnorMathematics19551962
Paul CohenMathematics19621966
Stephen SmaleMathematics19601966
Heisuke HironakaMathematics19621970
John G. ThompsonMathematics19611970
David MumfordMathematics19621974
Charles FeffermanMathematics19701978
Daniel G. QuillenMathematics19671978
William ThurstonMathematics19741982
Shing-Tung YauMathematics19741982
Michael H. FreedmanMathematics19801986
Vaughan JonesMathematics19831990
Curtis T. McMullenMathematics19881998
Andrea M. Ghez[14]Physics19962020
Vladimir VoevodskyMathematics19972002
Andrei OkounkovMathematics20002006
Terence TaoMathematics19992006
Larry GuthMathematics20102014
David MacMillanChemistry20022021
Guido ImbensEconomics19952021
Moungi BawendiChemistry19942023
John HopfieldPhysics19622024
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Notes
  1. [1]
    Field of the Sloan fellowship
  2. [2]
    Unless stated, the prize was awarded in the same field as that of the Sloan fellowship

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