Gause was awarded the Stalin Prize for Medicine for his discovery in 1946.

He has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that regulate associated with blood pressure.

Mechnikov was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery.

He was awarded the Perkin Medal in 1933 for his discovery of organic accelerators, specifically thiocarbanilide.

Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis."

In 1924, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery.

Although the key to most direct methods still in use today, Sayre did not share the 1985 chemistry Nobel prize awarded for their discovery.

He was awarded the prestigious Davy Medal in 2002 for his discovery that the noble gases were not that noble after all.

Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen were awarded their prize "for their discovery of the nuclear shell structure".