Connecticut Medal of Science Criteria

The Selection Committee will employ the following criteria in determining the winner of the Connecticut’s Medal of Science:

Principal Criterion: Total impact of an individual’s work on the present state of physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, or social and behavioral sciences.

• Achievements of an unusually significant nature and their potential effects on the development of scientific thought.
  
• Distinguished service in the general advancement of science and engineering when accompanied by substantial contributions to the content of science at some time.
  
• A significant portion of the work must have been performed in, or been associated with, an institution located in Connecticut (academic, industrial or governmental), at least in its more mature and developed stage.