Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development

The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award made by the Society for Research in Child Development recognises those who have a substantial contribution to the field of child development.

Awards are made biannually and recipients include:

1977
 * Robert Havighurst
 * David Levy
 * Myrtle McGraw
 * Lester Sontag

1979
 * Harry Harlow
 * Donald Hebb
 * Julius Richmond

1981
 * John Bowlby
 * Eleanor Gibson
 * Barbel Inhelder

1983
 * Nancy Bayley
 * Konrad Lorenz
 * Robert Sears
 * Milton Senn (special history award)

1985
 * Mary Ainsworth
 * Orville Brimm, Jr.
 * Lawrence Kohlberg

1987
 * Urie Bronfenbrenner
 * Eleanor Maccoby
 * Beatrice Whiting

1989
 * Jerome Bruner
 * Jerome Kagan
 * Michael Rutter

1991
 * Frances Graham
 * Robert Hinde
 * Harriet Rhinegold

1993
 * Stella Chess
 * Alexander Thomas
 * Arthur Hawley Parmelee, Jr
 * Marian Radke-Yarrow
 * Harold W. Stevenson

1995
 * John H. Flavell
 * Norman Garmezy
 * E. Mavis Hetherington
 * Hanus Papousek

1997
 * Doris R. Entwisle
 * Jacqueline J. Goodnow
 * Gilbert Gotleib
 * Gerald Patterson

1999
 * Willard W. Hartup
 * Katherine Nelson
 * David N. Magnusson
 * Emmy E. Werner

2001
 * Judith F. Dunn
 * Glen H. Elder
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier

2003
 * Lois Bloom
 * William Greenough
 * Marshall Haith
 * Lee Robins

2005
 * Lea Pulkkinen
 * Arnold Sameroff
 * Robert Plomin
 * Rachel Keen

2007
 * Rochel Gelman
 * Qicheng Jing
 * Vonnie McLoyd

2009
 * Megan R. Gunnar
 * Janellen Huttenlocher
 * Ross D. Parke
 * Mary K. Rothbart
 * L. Alan Sroufe

2011
 * Dante Cicchetti
 * Sandra Graham