| 2007 | |
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Meredith West |
| "Close Encounters of the Avian Kind: The Developmental Ecology of Vocal Communication in Birds" | |
| 2006 | |
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Peter Bondanella |
| “Fellini and Fantasy” | |
| 2005 | |
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Gary Hieftje |
| “The Two Three Sides of Scientific Investigation” | |
| 2004 | |
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Alex Dzierba |
| “Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks” | |
| 2003 | |
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David C. Williams |
| “Civic Constitutionalism, the Second Amendment, and the Right of Revolution” | |
| 2002 | |
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Ellen D. Ketterson |
| “Is It Just Hormones? Testosterone, Mating Systems, and Parental Care in Birds” | |
| 2001 | |
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Roger G. Newton |
| “Alien Science” | |
| 2000 | |
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas |
| “Clinton, Lewinsky, and the Great Books” | |
| 1999 | |
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Larry N. Thibos |
| “Perfecting the Optical System of the Human Eye” | |
| 1998 | |
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Charles S. Parmenter |
| “Laser Studies of Energy Flow in Molecules” | |
| 1997 | |
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Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas P. Toth |
| “The Role of Rock: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology” | |
| 1996 |
| Eugene D. Weinberg |
| “Iron Withholding: A Defense Against Disease” |
| 1995 | |
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Ronald A. Hites |
| “The Movement of Toxic Pollutants through the Environment” |
| 1994 | |
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Lewis Rowell |
| “Narrative Beginnings in Music” |
| 1993 | |
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Esther Thelen, deceased |
| “The Origins of an Embodied Cognition and the Dynamics of Time Scales” |
| 1992 | |
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Joan Hoff |
| “Watergate Revisited” |
| 1991 | |
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Robert E. Pollock |
| “Cold Traps” |
| 1990 | |
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H. Scott Gordon |
| “How Many Kinds of Things Are There in the World?” |
| 1989 | |
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Milos Novotny |
| “Chemical Communication in Mammals” |
| 1988 | |
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Bruce Cole |
| “Love, Lust, and Loss in Venetian Painting of the Golden Age” |
| 1987 |
| John R. Preer Jr. |
| “Repairing Genetic Defects by the Introduction of Cloned Genes” |
| 1987 | |
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Howard Gest |
| “A Trail of Directed Serendipity in Research on Photosynthetic Bacteria” |
| 1986 | |
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Elinor Ostrom |
| “How Inexorable is the ‘Tragedy of the Commons?’: Institutional Arrangements for Changing the Structure of Social Dilemmas” |
| 1985 |
| Richard Westfall, deceased |
| “Galileo and the Jesuits” |
| 1984 |
| Eliot Hearst |
| “Empty Intervals and Absent Events: Something About Nothing in the Psychology of Animals and People” |
| 1984 | |
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Richard M. Shiffrin |
| “Automatic and Controlled Processes in Memory and Attention” |
| 1983 |
| Ciprian Foias |
| “Abstract Mathematics and Concrete Problems” |
| 1982 | |
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David Pisoni |
| “Speech Technology: The Evolution of Computers that Speak . . . and Listen” |
| 1981 |
| Anthony Mahowald |
| “The Precocious Germ Cell, A Haven from Developmental Change” |
| 1980 | |
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J. Rufus Fears |
| “Roman Liberty: An Essay in Protean Political Metaphor” |
