Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Awards

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Prospective Applicants

"The desire to teach is visceral: it requires no defense, it permits no explanation, it is a cultural obligation, it is a vocation. Scholarship and research without the vocation to teach are sterile."

-- J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1989

Current Awardees

"Being a professor in an American university is the best job in Western civilization."

-- Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988