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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is related to, but distinct from, the Medal of Freedom, an earlier award issued between 1945 and 1963 to honor US civilian contributions to World War II. In 2022 at the age of 25, athlete and activist Simone Biles became the youngest person to receive the award.
Jerry Chris Elliott High Eagle (born 1943) is a physicist and was one of the first American Indians to work at NASA. Elliott's work awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the President of the United States. [1] [2] [3]
Pages in category "Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 704 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hawking was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. In 2002, Hawking was ranked number 25 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He died in 2018 at the age of 76, having lived more than ...
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal.It is an award bestowed by decision of the president of the United States to "any person recommended to the President for award of the Medal or any person selected by the President upon his own initiative," [3] and was created to recognize people who have made "an ...
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Former President Donald Trump lauded a wealthy donor on whom he bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom as having gotten the "better" award compared to the top military ...
In 2022, Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and gun-control advocate Gabby Giffords. Biden also ...
[21] In 2014, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom [22] and was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014. [23] In 2015, she received the IEEE Medal of Honor . In 2000–2001, she was the director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy .