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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Deadline: September 13

Additional information

The John and Alice Tyler Prize is awarded for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind. The Prize is endowed by gifts from the Alice C. Tyler Charitable Trust and the John C. Tyler Trust and awardees are chosen annually by the Executive Committee. The University of Southern California administers the Tyler Prize.

Prizes are awarded for any one of the following:

• The protection, maintenance, improvement or understanding of an ecological or an environmental condition anywhere in the world.
• The discovery, further development, improvement, or understanding of known or new sources of energy.
• Medical discoveries or achievements with such worldwide implications that they significantly benefit environmental aspects of human health.