The Arthur S. Flemming Award was established in 1948 to honor outstanding federal employees

Federal government of the United States

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. Recognized by the President of the United States

President of the United States

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, agency heads, and the private sector

Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...

, the winners are selected from all areas of the federal service. More than 500 individuals have received the award to date. Nominees may include any career federal employee who has at least three but no more than fifteen years of government service. Up to twelve separate awards will be made in three categories - Applied Science

Applied science

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, Engineering

Engineering

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 and Mathematics

Mathematics

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; Basic Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

; and Managerial or Legal Achievement. This year's award recipients will be honored during a ceremony at The George Washington University on June 2, 2008. The George Washington University and its Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration have hosted the Award since 1997.

Noted recipients

(Non exhaustive list)

• Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.
  Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.
  Welcome Wade Wilson, Sr. is chairman of the GSL Welcome Group—a privately-held real estate development firm with its headquarters in Houston, Texas . He serves on the Board of Regents of the University of Houston System, and is a 1949 graduate of the University of Houston.-Early...
  
  
• Neil Armstrong
  Neil Armstrong
  Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....
  
  
• Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and medical researcher. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995....
  
  
• George Carruthers
• John Chancellor
  John Chancellor
  John William Chancellor was a well-known American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News...
  
  
• Elizabeth Dole
  Elizabeth Dole
  Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as a United States Senator....
  
  
• Dr. Anthony Fauci
  Anthony Fauci
  Anthony S. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases .-Education and career:Anthony Stephen Fauci was born on...
  
  
• Robert Gates
  Robert Gates
  Dr. Robert Michael Gates is a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W....
  
  
• Bruce Herschensohn
  Bruce Herschensohn
  Stanley Bruce Herschensohn is an American political commentator and senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy in Malibu, California....
  
  
• Sherwood B Idso
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
  
  
• William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. He is of Italian and Welsh descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Paul Volcker
  Paul Volcker
  Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr. is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and...
  
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• Robert Hormats
  Robert Hormats
  Robert D. 'Bob' Hormats was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs on September 23, 2009. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs . He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982...