Story  on winners for 1990...
 

Koprowski,  Hilary Dr.,  former Director,  Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA now at  Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia	Pioneering contributions to rabies research.  Rabies vaccine developed is first new step in rabies immunization since Pasteur
Vogel, Orville, A. Dr. , Professor Emeritus, Washington State University	Invention of semidwarf wheats which have since spread across the world contributing measureably to the food supplies available worldwide

Kamen, Martin D. Dr.  , Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of California	Discovery and isolation of the long-lived radioisotope of carbon, Carbon-14
Heeger, Alan J.  Dr., Professor of Physics at the University of California  MacDiarmid,  Alan G. Dr., Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania also see :http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0307/gaz02.html	Pioneering research and invention in the field of metallic conducting polymers made from carbon compounds.

Fraser, David William  Dr., President - Swarthmore College, PA..  Distinguished Epidemiologist.	For his leading role in the team at the Center for Disease Control and elsewhere in identifying the cause of Legionnaires' Disease
Garfield, Eugene  Dr., President and Chairman, Institute for Scientific Information	Pioneering in the field of information retrieval, scientometrics and scientific communication

Drickamer, Harry G., Prof. Univ. of Illinois	Development of high pressure tuning of electronic orbitals
Milstein, Cèsar, Dr., Cambridge, England  Kohler, Georges, Dr., Switzerland	Discovery of a method for the production of monoclonal antibodies

Kolff, Willem J., MD, Ph.D. Univ. of Utah	Contributions to the development of the artitificial kidney and heart
Gould, Gordon, Optelecom, Gaithersburg, MD	Invention of the Laser

Sternbach, Leo H., Ph.D., Dr.Tech. h.c.  Hoffman-LaRoche Company, Nutley, NJ	Invention of benzodiazepines as useful drugs
Fishman, Jack, Prof. Rockefeller Univ. NY  Blumberg, Harold, Prof.., NY	Invention and development of Naloxone as a morphine antagonist

Black, James Whyte, Prof.  Wellcome Foundation, London, England	Drugs such as Cimetidine and Propanolol (Cimetidine is used for the medical cure of peptic ulcers; Propanolol is a most useful drug in the treatment of hypertension and various cardiac disorders)
Rubin, Ben, Dr.,  Wyeth Labs, Radnor, PA	Invention of the bifurcated vaccination needle which contributed to the eradication of smallpox