The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...

 (AAAS) is annually awarded to author(s) of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science

Science (journal)

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. Established in 1923, funded by Newcomb Cleveland who remained anonymous until his death in 1951, and for this period it was known as the AAAS Thousand Dollar Prize. The present rules were instituted in 1975, previously it had gone to author(s) of papers noteworthy paper, representing an outstanding contribution to science, presented in a regular session, sectional or societal, during the AAAS Annual Meeting. It is now sponsored by Affymetrix

Affymetrix

Affymetrix is a company that manufactures DNA microarrays; it is based in Santa Clara, California, United States. The company was founded by Dr. Stephen Fodor in 1992. It began as a unit in Affymax N.V...

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External links

• http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/newcomb/index.shtml
• http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/newcomb/newcomb_winners.shtml
• http://archives.aaas.org/awards.php?a_id=7