The Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award | Committee on Human Rights of Scientists of The New York Academy of Sciences

Human Rights Award

The Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award

This award is given to scientists in recognition of the contributions they made to safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists throughout the world. It was retitled in 1986.

2007
	Gao Yaojie, retired physician at the Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in central Henan Province, China. More details >>
	Jiang Yanyong, surgeon in Beijing, China. More details >>
2006
	Mesfin Woldemariam, Ethiopian geographer and prominent human rights defender. Read address by his daughter, Meqdes Mesfin, given at the award ceremony.
	Joseph Birman, distinguished professor of Physics at City College of The City University of New York. Read the Press Release
2005
	Zafra Lerman, distinguished professor of Science and Public Policy and head of the Institute for Science Education and Science Communication at Columbia College Chicago
	Herman Winick, assistant director and professor emeritus of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at Stanford University Read the Press Release
2004
	Nguyen Dan Que, Medical Doctor, Former Director of Cho-Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh, Former Director of Medical Department at Saigon Medical School Read the Press Release Read his statement
2003
	Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and sociology professor at the American University in Cairo Read his statement.
2002
	Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, economist and one of the founders of Internal Dissidents Working Group for Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation Read the Press release
	Mohammad Hadi Hadizadeh Yazdi, Professor of nuclear physics, Physics Department School of Science, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
2001
	Sidney D. Drell , Professor Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
	Lin Hai , Software Engineer, freelance web consultant, webmaster of freechina.com Read the Press Release
2000
	Alexander Nikitin, Russian Nuclear Engineer, Representative of Bellona Foundation in St. Petersburg
	Betty Tsang, Nuclear Physicist, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University Read the Press Release
1999
Israel Halperin, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada Read the Press Release
1998
	Boris Altshuler, Physicist, Lebedev Institute; Director, Moscow Research Center for Human Rights, Moscow, Russia
	Morris Pripstein, Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
1997
Prof. Laurent Schwartz, Mathematician Emeritus, Universite de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and Palaiseaux, France
Prof. Zuhal Amato, Public Health and Medical Ethics, Dokuz Eyul University, Izmir, Turkey
1996
	Prof. Joel Lebowitz, Director, Center for Math Sciences Research, Rutgers University
	Dr. Sergei Kovalev, Biologist, Deputy of the State Duma, Moscow, Russia
1995
	Prof. Xu Liangying, Physicist and Translator of Albert Einstein's collected works
	Prof. Ding Zilin, Philosopher at Beijing's Chinese People's University
1994
	Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, Russian Chemist
1993
Dr. Abdumannob Pulatov (Physicist, Chairman of the Uzbek Human Rights Committee)
1992
Mr. A.M. Rosenthal (Columnist and former Chief Editor of The New York Times)
1991
Not given due to administrative changes at Academy
1990
Prof. Inga Fisher-Hjalmars (Chemist and Physicist, former Vice President of the Swedish Academy of Sciences)
1989
	Prof. Henri Cartan, Mathematician, Professor at ENS, Paris, France
1988
Prof. Fang Li-Zhi (prominent Chinese Physicist and Human Rights Advocate)
1987
Mrs. Dorothy Hirsch (Executive Director of the Committee for Concerned Scientists)
1986
	Dr. Lipman Bers, Mathematician, Professor at Columbia University
1979
	Prof. Andrei Sakharov, Physicist- presidential Award for his scientific and human rights work