Editing Stanley B. Prusiner (section)

==Awards and honors==
Stanley Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his work in proposing an explanation for the cause of [[bovine spongiform encephalopathy]] ("mad cow disease") and its human equivalent, [[Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease]].<ref name="nobelprize"/>  In this work, he coined the term ''prion'', which comes from the words "proteinaceous" and "infectious," in 1982 to refer to a previously undescribed form of infection due to protein misfolding.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/what_really_cau.html | title=What really causes mad cow disease? | magazine=Wired | date=January 31, 2007 | access-date=2007-01-02 | url-status=live | archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20111028191535/http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/what_really_cau.html | archive-date=October 28, 2011 }}</ref>

Prusiner was elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Science]] in 1992 and to its governing council in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stanley B. Prusiner|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/61615.html|access-date=2021-12-06|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> He is also an elected member of [[the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1993),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stanley Ben Prusiner|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/stanley-ben-prusiner|access-date=2021-12-06|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref> a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1997|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1997]],<ref name=frs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316060617/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|archive-date=2015-03-16|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|title=Fellows of the Royal Society}}</ref><ref name=frs2>{{cite web|title=Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|publisher=Royal Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|archive-date=2015-10-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1998),<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Stanley+B.+Prusiner&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-06|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]] (2003), and the [[Institute of Medicine]].

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* [[Potamkin Prize]] for Alzheimer's Disease Research from the American Academy of Neurology (1991)
* The [[Richard Lounsbery Award]] for Extraordinary Scientific Research in Biology and Medicine from the National Academy of Sciences (1993)
* [[Dickson Prize]] (1993)
* The [[Gairdner Foundation International Award]] (1993)
* The [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (1994)
* The [[Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize]] from the Federal Republic of Germany (1995)
* The [[Wolf Prize in Medicine]] from the [[Wolf Foundation]] (1996)
* [[Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer]] (1996)
* The [[Keio Medical Science Prize|Keio International Award for Medical Science]] (1996)
* Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] (1996)<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref>
* The [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]] (1997)
* The [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1997)<ref name="nobelprize"/>
* The [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] from the [[Franklin Institute]] (1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fi.edu/winners/show_results.faw?gs=&ln=&fn=&keyword=&subject=&award=BF+&sy=1997&ey=1999&name=Submit |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130403072434/http://www.fi.edu/winners/show_results.faw?gs=&ln=&fn=&keyword=&subject=&award=BF+&sy=1997&ey=1999&name=Submit |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-03 |title=Franklin Laureate Database – Benjamin Franklin Medal 1998 Laureates |publisher=[[Franklin Institute]] |access-date=2013-02-14 }}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate from [[CEU Cardinal Herrera University]] (2005)
* The [[National Medal of Science]] (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117875|title=White House Announces National Medal of Science Laureates – NSF – National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=May 9, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522115248/https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117875|archive-date=May 22, 2017}}</ref>
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