List of early career awards

This list is a subsection of List of prizes, medals, and awards; this list focuses on early career awards, which are determined within a profession by age or length of time in the profession.

List of awards

Arts

Literary

• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a Commonwealth author under 40)
• International Young Publisher of the Year (young publishers)
• Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award (a writer under 35 who has not yet published his or her first book)

Music

• BBC Young Musician of the Year
• Eurovision Young Musicians
• International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year (music industry)
• Peter Whittingham Award (musicians)

Other

• Turner Prize (visual artist under age of 50)

Sciences

• Fields Medal (mathematicians not over age of 40)
• Francqui Prize (Belgian scholar or scientist under 50)
• Otto Hahn Medal (young/junior scientists)
• Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize (outstanding younger German scientists under the age of 40)
• Passano Foundation Young Scientist Award
• Searle Scholars Program ( career development award made annually to the 15 young US professionals in biomedical research and chemistry)
• Frank Fenner's (prev. Science Minister's) Prize for Life Scientist of the Year (early to mid-career scientists, not more than ten years past the award of their highest degree (e.g. Master’s or PhD), working in the life sciences)
• Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (early to mid-career scientists, not more than ten years past the award of their highest degree (e.g. Master’s or PhD), working in the physical sciences)
• Presidential Early Career Award for scientists and engineers
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society, Rockfille, Maryland - given to a woman who "has achieved prominence for 'substantial contributions to science'" and showing high promise in the early part of her career
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, American Physical Society (best young physicist in the world)^[1]
• Charles F. Lucks Award (for significant contribution to the subject of thermal conductivity by a young scientist)

Social sciences

• T. S. Ashton Prize (economic history - author is 35 or younger, OR within 5 years of Ph.D., OR has no previous publication in economic/social history or closely related field)
• John Bates Clark Medal (American economist under age of 40)

See also

• List of prizes, medals, and awards
• List of awards for youth
• Lemelson-MIT Prize, for mid-career inventors^[2]

Notes