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§1881a Alan T. Waterman Award

Title 42 › Chapter 16— NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION › § 1881a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Science Foundation can give the Alan T. Waterman Award to honor work in many science areas, such as math, physical and life sciences, engineering, and social or behavioral sciences. Each award includes a medal and a money grant to help the winner do more research or study. The National Science Board will set the grant amounts and rules. The award is for younger scientists whose work and skills show strong promise of important future success. No more than three awards can be given in any one fiscal year.

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Title 42, §1881a

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The National Science Foundation is authorized to establish the Alan T. Waterman Award for research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, behavioral, social, or other sciences. The award authorized by this section shall consist of a suitable medal and a grant to support further research or study by the recipient. The National Science Board will periodically establish the amounts and terms of such grants under this section.
(b)Awards under this section shall be made to recognize and encourage the work of younger scientists whose capabilities and accomplishments show exceptional promise of significant future achievement.
(c)Not more than three awards may be made under this section in any one fiscal year.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act, 1976, and not as part of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–69 amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: “No more than one award shall be made under this section in any one fiscal year.” 1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–207 substituted “social,” for “social, social,”. 1985—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–159 substituted provisions requiring the National Science Board to periodically establish amounts and terms of grants, for provisions limiting the grant awarded to $50,000 per year for a period not exceeding three years. 1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–516 inserted “, behavioral, social” after “engineering”.

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42 U.S.C. § 1881a

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60