Awards and Honors
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[Academy Awards]
Albert Lasker Awards
Basic Medical Research K. Sune D.
Bergström, Bengt Samuelsson, John R. Vane
Clinical Medical Research Inge G. Edler, C.
Hellmuth Hertz
American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters
Arnold W. Brunner Prize in Architecture
Henry N. Cobb
Distinguished Service to the Arts James Laughlin
Gold Medal for Sculpture Isamu Noguchi
Marjorie Peabody Waite Award Kenzo Okada
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award
Sigrid Burton
American Library Association
Beta Phi Mu Award Russell E. Bidlack
Grolier Award Elizabeth T. Fast
Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation Bohdan S. Wynar
John Newbery Medal Roll
of Thunder, Hear Me Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
Joseph W. Lippincott Award Virginia Lacy Jones
Margaret Mann Citation Phyllis A. Richmond
Melvil Dewey Medal Seymour Lubetzky
Randolph J. Caldecott Medal Ashanti
to Zulu: African Traditions, written by Margaret
Musgrove, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Canada Council
Molson Prizes John Hirsch, Jean-Louis
Roux, Bill Reid
National Book Awards
Biography Norman Thomas: The Last
Idealist, by W. A. Swanberg
Children's Literature The Master Puppeteer,
by Katherine W. Paterson
Contemporary Thought The Uses of Enchantment,
by Bruno Bettelheim
Fiction The Spectator Bird, by Wallace
Stegner
History The World of Our Fathers, by
Irving Howe
Poetry Collected Poems 1930-1976, by
Richard Eberhart
Translation Master Tung's Western Chamber
Romance, by Li-li Chen
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry Ilya Prigogine
Economics Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade
Literature Vicente Aleixandre
Peace Amnesty International (for 1977); Betty
Williams and Mairead Corrigan (for 1976)
Physics John H. Van Vleck, Philip W. Anderson,
and Sir Nevill F. Mott
Physiology or Medicine Rosalyn S. Yalow, Roger
C. L. Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally
Overseas Press Club Awards
Book on Foreign Affairs John Toland,
for Adolph Hitler
Business News Reporting from Aboard Alfred
Zanker
Cartoon on Foreign Affairs Warren King
Daily Newspaper or Wire Service Interpretation of
Foreign Affairs Flora Lewis
Daily Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting From Abroad
Edward Cody
Magazine Interpretation of Foreign Affairs Tad
Szulc
Magazine Reporting From Abroad Newsweek
Photographic Reporting From Abroad Robert W.
Madden and W. E. Garrett
Pulitzer Prizes
Biography John E. Mack, for A Prince
of Our Disorder
Commentary George F. Will
Criticism William McPherson
Drama Michael Cristofer, for The Shadow Box
General Nonfiction William W. Warner, for Beautiful
Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
History David M. Potter, for The Impending Crisis
Music Richard Wernick, for Visions of
Terror and Wonder
National Reporting Walter Mears
Poetry James Merrill, for Divine Comedies
U. S. National Medal of Science
Morris Cohen, K. O. Friedricks, Peter C.
Goldmark, Samuel A. Goudsmit, Roger Charles Lewis
Guillemin, Herbert S. Gutowsky, Erwin W. Mueller, Keith
R. Porter, Efraim Racker, Frederick D. Rossini, Verner E.
Suomi, Henry Taube, George E. Uhlenbeck, Hassler Whitney,
Edward O. Wilson
U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
By President Gerald Ford on January 10 I.
W. Abel, John Bardeen, Irving Berlin, Norman Borlaug, Omar N. Bradley, Arleigh Burke,
Alexander Calder (posthumously), Bruce Catton, Joe
DiMaggio, Ariel Durant, Will Durant, Arthur
Fiedler, Henry J. Friendly, Lady Bird Johnson,
Archibald MacLeish, James Albert Michener, Georgia O'Keefe, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Norman Rockwell,
Katherine Filene Shouse, Lowell Thomas, James D. Watson
By President Jimmy Carter on July 11 Martin
Luther King, Jr. (posthumously), Jonas E. Salk
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