Sloan Research Fellowship

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]

This article is about the fellowship for early-career scientists. For the management program for business leaders, see Sloan Fellows.
Sloan Research Fellowships
Awarded forprovide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars
CountryWorldwide
Presented byAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
First awarded1955
WebsiteSloan Research Fellowships official site

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] These two-year fellowships are awarded to 126 researchers yearly.[3]

Eligibility requirements

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:

"Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to hold the Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, oceanography, or in a related interdisciplinary field, and must be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada. They may be no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent as of the year of their nomination, unless special circumstances such as military service, a change of field, or child rearing are involved or unless they have held a faculty appointment for less than two years. If any of the above circumstances apply, the letter of nomination (see below) should provide a clear explanation. While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates in all fields are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation welcomes nominations of all candidates who meet the traditional high standards of the program, and strongly encourages the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups."[2]

Notable award recipients

Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 43 fellows have won a Nobel Prize,[4] and 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.[5]

Sloan Fellowship recipients who became Nobel or Fields Medal laureates
Name Field[n 1] Sloan year Prize year[n 2]
Richard FeynmanPhysics19551965
Murray Gell-MannPhysics19571969
Leon N. CooperPhysics19591972
Sheldon Lee 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
Vladimir VoevodskyMathematics19972002
Andrei OkounkovMathematics20002006
Terence TaoMathematics19992006
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

References
  1. "90 Scientists and Economists Win Sloan Research Awards". The New York Times. 1985-03-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  2. "History". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  3. "Sloan Research Fellowships". www.sloan.org. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  4. "Nobel Laureates". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  5. "Fields Medalists". www.sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
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