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Founders Award
Established in 1986 as the Elisabeth Roberts Cole Award, and renamed in 2000.

Deadline for nominations: April 1 of each year.
The Founders Award, established by the Society, is given to scientists for outstanding achievement in any area of biophysics. These achievements are often reflected in the acceptance and its use by others in the field, either promptly or over a period of years.
The award consists of $1,000 and is granted annually.
Download Society Award Application.

Eligibility:
  • Nominees must have made an outstanding achievement in an area of biophysics.
  • Nominees must be a member of the Society in good standing.
  • Nominator must submit completed Nomination Form and required documents.
Nominations packets must include the following:
  1. Completed Award Nomination Form.
  2. A letter describing qualifications of the nominee.
  3. Two supporting letters.
  4. Nominee’s curriculum vitae, including all relevant publications.
Mail Nomination packet to:

Society Awards
Biophysical Society
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814

Past Awardees

2008 Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego
2007 Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania
2006 William A. Eaton, LCP, NIDDK, NIH
2005 Thomas G. Spiro, Princeton University
2004 Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley 
2003 Irwin Kuntz, University of California, San Francisco
2002 Barry Honig, Columbia University
2001 M. Thomas Record, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2000 Carolyn Cohen, Brandeis University
1999 Robert L. Baldwin, Stanford University
1998 Michael G. Rossmann, Purdue University
1997 William H. Woodruff, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1996 Ignacia Tinoco, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
1995 David A. Yphantis, University of Connecticut
1994 Gary K. Ackers, Washington University
1993 Joint Recipients: David J. DeRosier, Brandeis University; Joachim Frank, New York State Department of Health
1992 Robert M. Glaeser, University of California, Berkeley
1991 Wayne L. Hubbell, University of California, Los Angeles
1990 Joel Brown, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1989 Ramon Latorre, University of Chile
1988 Seymour H. Koenig, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
1987 Lawrence B. Cohen, Yale University School of Medicine
1986 George Eisenman, University of California, Los Angeles