| Medals received during school and colleges are the | | | | medal, as is the American Physical Society award |
| hardest earned and respected medals in the life | | | | presented by the American Institute of Physics, |
| of an individual. There is immense competition | | | | which is for outstanding lifetime contributions to |
| among students to gain academic as well sporting | | | | humankind. Gibbs Brothers Medal -- Naval |
| excellence. It a great honor for students to be | | | | architecture, Marine engineering is awarded by the |
| awarded a medal for academic achievements or | | | | National Academy of Sciences. |
| excellence in sports. | | | | NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific |
| Academic Medals are not only awarded to school | | | | Achievement is given by NASA for those who |
| and college students but are given to those who | | | | have shown extraordinary academic excellence. |
| excel in science and technology, engineering, | | | | The National Medal of Science is considered a |
| medical sciences and other academic fields. Many | | | | very prestigious medal that is given by President |
| people receive medals from the state | | | | of United States on recommendation of the |
| government or are honored by national | | | | National Science Foundation. It is awarded to |
| governments for breakthrough inventions they | | | | scientists and engineers in behavioral and social |
| have made. The Dannie Heinemann Prize for | | | | sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, |
| Mathematical Physics is an important academic | | | | mathematics, and physics. |