Committee on Human Rights of Scientists

The Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award

• 2006: Mesfin Woldemariam, Ethiopian geographer and prominent human rights defender, and Joseph Birman, distinguished professor of Physics at City College of The City University of New York.
• 2005: Zafra Lerman, distinguished professor of Science and Public Policy and head of the Institute for Science Education and Science Communication at Columbia College Chicago, and Herman Winick, assistant director and professor emeritus of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at Stanford University
• 2004: Nguyen Dan Que, Medical Doctor, Former Director of Cho-Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh, Former Director of Medical Department at Saigon Medical School
• 2003: Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and sociology professor at the American University in Cairo
• 2002: Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello, economist and one of the founders of Internal Dissidents Working Group for Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation, and Mohammad Hadi Hadizadeh Yazdi, Professor of nuclear physics, Physics Department School of Science, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
• 2001: Alexander Nikitin and Betty Tsang
• 2000: Sidney D. Drell, Professor Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, and Lin Hai, Software Engineer, freelance web consultant, webmaster of freechina.com
• 1999: Israel Halperin
• 1998: Boris Altshuler, Physicist, Lebedev Institute; Director, Moscow Research Center for Human Rights, Moscow, Russia, and Morris Pripstein, Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
• 1997: Prof. Laurent Schwartz and Prof. Zuhal Amato
• 1996: Prof. Joel Lebowitz, Director, Center for Math Sciences Research, Rutgers University, and Dr. Sergei Kovalev, Biologist, Deputy of the State Duma, Moscow, Russia
• 1995: Prof. Xu Liangying, Physicist and Translator of Albert Einstein's collected works, and Prof. Ding Zilin, Philosopher at Beijing's Chinese People's University
• 1994: Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, Russian Chemist
• 1993: Dr. Abdumannob Pulatov
• 1992: Mr. A. M. Rosenthal
• 1990: Prof. Inga Fisher-Hjalmars
• 1989: Prof. Henri Cartan, Mathematician, Professor at ENS, Paris, France
• 1988: Prof. Fang Li-Zhi
• 1987: Mrs. Dorothy Hirsch
• 1986: Dr. Lipman Bers, Mathematician, Professor at Columbia University
• 1979: Prof. Andrei Sakharov, Physicist- presidential Award for his scientific and human rights work