The John P. McGovern Award
The late John P. McGovern, M.D. a member of the Cosmos Club, endowed the Foundation with a special fund for an annual series of lectures in science, literature, arts, and humanities. The Foundation Trustees select awardees whose endeavors have clearly distinguished them as leaders in their spheres of activity. The awardees deliver lectures open to the public at the Cosmos Club in their areas of recognition. A medal and an honorarium is presented to each awardee by the Cosmos Club Foundation, and a plaque placed in the Cosmos Clubhouse memorializes each award recipient.
John P. McGovern, a noted physician, educator, author, and medical historian, was a member of the Cosmos Club from 1953 until his death in 2007. He was the founder of the McGovern Allergy Clinic, Houston, Texas, the nation's largest private allergy clinic, and chairman of the boards of the McGovern Fund for Behavioral Sciences and the John P. McGovern Foundation.
Category |
Date |
Awardee |
Arts and Humanities |
1986 |
Clark M. Clifford |
Science |
1987 |
Jean Mayer |
Literature |
1988 |
Irving Stone |
Arts and Humanities |
1989 |
Mstislav Rostropovich |
Science |
1989 |
Roger Revelle |
Literature |
1990 |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Arts and Humanities |
1991 |
Arnold S. Relman |
Literature |
1992 |
Carlos Fuentes |
Arts and Humanities |
1993 |
David McCullough |
Science |
1993 |
Stephen J. Gould |
Literature |
1994 |
Galway Kinnell |
Arts and Humanities |
1995 |
Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Science |
1995 |
Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker |
Science |
1996 |
Edward O. Wilson |
Arts and Humanities |
1997 |
Maya Lin |
Literature |
1998 |
Saul Bellow |
Science |
1998 |
Michael deBakey |
Arts and Humanities | 1999 | Ismail Merchant and James Ivory |
Literature | 2000 |
E. L. Doctorow |
Science | 2000 | Wendy Freedman |
Science | 2001 | J. Craig Venter |
Arts and Humanities | 2002 | Sir Derek Jacobi |
Literature | 2002 | Norman Mailer |
Science | 2003 | Robert D. Ballard |
Arts and Humanities | 2003 | Leonard Slatkin |
Science |
2004 |
David P. Billington |
Science |
2005 |
Steven W. Squyres |
Literature |
2006 |
Michael Frayn |
Literature |
2007 |
Wole Soyinka |
Science |
2007 |
Eric Kandel |
Arts and Humanities |
2007 |
Jules Feiffer |
Science |
2008 |
Vinton G. Cerf |
Science |
2009 |
David Baltimore |
Arts and Humanities |
2009 |
Frances Sternhagen |
Arts and Humanities |
2010 |
Elaine Pagels |
Science |
2010 |
Anthony S. Fauci |
Literature |
2011 |
Calvin Trillin |
Science |
2011 |
Thad Allen |
Arts and Humanities |
2012 |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Arts and Humanities |
2013 |
Brian Lamb |
Science |
2013 |
Daniel Kahneman |
Science |
2013 |
Harold Varmus |
Arts and Humanities |
2014 |
Christoph Eschenbach |
Science |
2014 |
Henry Petroski |
Arts and Humanities |
2015 |
Gail Kern Paster |
Arts and Humanities |
2016 |
Jill Lepore |
Science |
2016 |
Karl Deisseroth |
Science |
2018 |
Albert-László Barabási |
Arts and Humanities |
2018 |
Denyce Graves |
Arts and Humanities |
2019 |
Molly Smith |
Science |
2019 |
Richard Owen Prum |
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