Life Science Encyclopedia

The ASCB's highest honor for science, the E.B. Wilson Medal is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career. It is named after Edmund Beecher Wilson.

Medalists

• 2007 Richard O. Hynes and Zena Werb
• 2006 Joel Rosenbaum
• 2005 Joan A. Steitz
• 2004 Thomas Pollard
• 2003 Marc Kirschner
• 2002 Avram Hershko and Alexander Varshavsky
• 2001 Elizabeth Blackburn
• 2000 Walter Neupert and Gottfried Schatz
• 1999 Edwin Taylor
• 1998 James Darnell and Sheldon Penman
• 1997 John C. Gerhart
• 1996 Donald D. Brown
• 1995 Bruce Nicklas
• 1994 Barbara Gibbons and Ian Gibbons
• 1993 Hans Ris
• 1992 Shinya Inoue
• 1991 S. Jonathan Singer
• 1990 Morris Karnovsky
• 1989 Christian de Duve
• 1988 Elizabeth Hay
• 1987 Marilyn Farquhar
• 1986 Gunter Blobel and D. Sabatini
• 1985 H. Swift
• 1984 H. Eagle and T. Puck
• 1983 Joseph Gall and H. Huxley
• 1982 Charles Leblond and A. Novikoff
• 1981 Daniel Mazia, George Palade, and Keith Porter