| Year |
Name |
Institution |
Major Field |
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| 1949 |
Louise B. Alexander |
UNC-Greensboro |
Education |
|
| 1950 |
Robert E. Coker |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Science (hydrobiology) |
|
| 1951 |
Donald B. Anderson |
North Carolina State |
Science (plant physiology) |
|
| 1952 |
Albert Coates |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Government |
|
| 1953 |
Howeard W. Odum |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Sociology |
|
| 1954 |
Franklin H. McNutt |
UNC-Greensboro |
Education |
|
| 1955 |
Zeno Payne Metcalf |
North Carolina State |
Geology & Entomology |
|
| 1956 |
Mereb E. Mossman |
UNC-Greensboro |
Social Service |
|
| 1957 |
Warner L. Wells |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine (surgery & author) |
|
| 1958 |
C. Horace Hamilton |
North Carolina State |
Sociology |
|
| 1959 |
Gertrude M. Cox |
North Carolina State |
Statistics |
|
| 1960 |
Richard N. Current |
UNC-Greensboro |
History (Lincoln scholar & author) |
|
| 1961 |
Kenneth N. Brinkhous |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine (hematology) |
|
| 1962 |
Randall Jarrell |
UNC-Greensboro |
Literature (poetry) |
|
| 1963 |
John C. Brauer |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Dentistry |
|
| 1964 |
W. Reece Berryhill |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine |
|
| 1965 |
Raymond L. Murray |
North Carolina State |
Science (atomic energy) |
|
| 1966 |
Lois Edinger |
UNC-Greensboro |
Education |
|
| 1967 |
Walton Carlyly Gregory |
North Carolina State |
Agriculture (genetics) |
|
| 1968 |
John B. Graham |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine (pathology & genetics) |
|
| 1969 |
Henry Brandis, Jr. |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Law |
|
| 1970 |
Stanley George Stephens |
North Carolina State |
Agriculture (genetics) |
|
| 1971 |
Naomi G. Albanese |
UNC-Greensboro |
Home Economics |
|
| 1972 |
Bruce John Zobel |
North Carolina State |
Forest Genetics |
|
| 1973 |
Ovid Williams Pierce |
East Carolina |
Literature |
|
| 1973 |
Cratis Dearl Williams |
Appalachian State |
Literature |
|
| 1974 |
Mary Elizabeth Keister |
UNC-Greensboro |
Early Childhood Development |
|
| 1975 |
Helen Grey Edmonds |
North Carolina Central |
History |
|
| 1975 |
Francis Speight |
East Carolina |
Art |
|
| 1976 |
Eloise Rallings Lewis |
UNC-Greensboro |
Nursing |
|
| 1976 |
LeRoy T. Walker |
North Carolina Central |
History |
|
| 1977 |
C. Hugh Holman |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Literature |
|
| 1978 |
Carl William Gottschalk |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine (nephrology & urology) |
|
| 1979 |
Richard Bardolph |
UNC-Greensboro |
History |
|
| 1979 |
Solomon P. Hersh |
North Carolina State |
Textile Engineering |
|
| 1980 |
C. Clark Cockerham |
North Carolina State |
Genetics |
|
| 1980 |
Judson J. Van Wyk |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine |
|
| 1981 |
Ellis B. Cowling |
North Carolina State |
Plant Pathology & Forestry |
|
| 1981 |
Bernard G. Greenberg |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Public Health |
|
| 1982 |
Octavia B. Knight |
North Carolina Central |
Special Education |
|
| 1982 |
Joseph N. Sasser |
North Carolina State |
Plant Pathology |
|
| 1983 |
Frank E. Guthrie |
North Carolina State |
Toxicology |
|
| 1983 |
Stanley R. Riggs |
East Carolina |
Geology |
|
| 1984 |
James A. Bryan, II |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine |
|
| 1984 |
Vivian T. Stannett |
North Carolina State |
Chemistry |
|
| 1985 |
M. Necati Ozisik |
North Carolina State |
Engineering |
|
| 1985 |
Eric Shopler |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Psychology |
|
| 1986 |
Fred Chappell |
UNC-Greensboro |
Literature |
|
| 1986 |
Edgar Locssin |
East Carolina |
Theatre |
|
| 1987 |
Major M. Goodman |
North Carolina State |
Agriculture (genetics) |
|
| 1987 |
C. Arden Miller |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Maternal & Child Health |
|
| 1988 |
Floyd W. Denny, Jr. |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Medicine (pediatrics) |
|
| 1988 |
Elizabeth C. Theil |
North Carolina State |
Biochemistry |
|
| 1989 |
William E. Laupus |
East Carolina |
Medicine (pediatrics) |
|
| 1989 |
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Literature |
|
| 1990 |
Fred R. DeJarnette |
North Carolina State |
Engineering (aerospace) |
|
| 1991 |
Frederick W. Harrison |
Western Carolina |
Biology |
|
| 1992 |
Sherwood Shaffer |
N.C. School of the Arts |
Music |
|
| 1993 |
Donald W. Warren |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Dentistry (craniofacial) |
|
| 1994 |
Gerald H. Shinn |
UNC-Wilmington |
Philosophy & Religion |
|
| 1995 |
James Houlik |
N.C. School of the Arts |
Music |
|
| 1996 |
Ernest Hodgson |
North Carolina State |
Toxicology |
|
| 1996 |
Vira Rodgers Kivett |
UNC-Greensboro |
Gerontology |
|
| 1997 |
R. Wayne Skaggs |
North Carolina State |
Agricultural Engineering |
|
| 1998 |
B. Jayant Baliga |
North Carolina State |
Electrical & Computer
Engineering |
| 1999 |
Jim E. Riviere |
North Carolina State |
Veterinary Medicine |
|
| 2000 |
Joseph M. DeSimone |
UNC-Chapel Hill/NC State |
Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering |
| 2001 |
Walter J. Poires, Jr. |
East Carolina |
Surgery & Biochemistry |
|
| 2002 |
Oliver Smithies |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Pathology |
|
| 2002 |
Melissa Hayden |
N.C. School of the Arts |
Dance |
|
| 2003 |
Bruce Weir |
North Carolina State |
Statistics & Genetics |
|
| 2004 |
W. Randolph Chitwood |
East Carolina |
Medicine |
|
| 2004 |
Branislav Vlahovic |
North Carolina Central |
Physics |
|
| 2005 |
Kenneth Adler |
North Carolina State |
Cell Biology |
|
| 2006 |
Ken R. Harewood |
North Carolina Central |
Biomedical Sciences |
|
| 2007 |
Trudy F. C. MacKay |
North Carolina State |
Genetics |
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