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The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies(TheATLAS) is pleased to present the following list of distinguished people with its highest honor, "The Academy Gold Medal of Honor" for distinguished contribution to the advancement of Transdisciplinary Foundational ideas and activities. The award comes with Honorary lifetime Membership in the Academy and a cash honorarium. The Academy Gold Medal of Honor recognizes unusual accomplishment in transdisciplinary education and research, public service, and other allied pursuits beneficial to design and process science.
Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert A. Simon
Carnegie Mellon University
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor :January, 2001 
Dr. George Kozmetsky
IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor :January, 2001
Dr. Steadman Upham
President, Claremont Graduate University, CA
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor :January, 2001 
Honorable K. T. Li
Sheparding Taiwan from an economy reliant on light industry to high technology
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor :January, 2001 
Dr. Michael Anthony Arbib
Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : May, 2002
C.V. Ramamoorthy
Emeritus Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : May, 2002 
Dr. Raymond T. Yeh
IC2 Institute Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : November, 2003
Lu Yyong Xiang
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mult.hon.Dr. Eng.
President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee, NPC
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor: June 2005
Professor Nam P. Suh
The Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor
Director, The Park Center for Complex Systems
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : June, 2006 
Dr. Herbert Weber
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : June, 2006 
Dr. Günter Valet
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152
Martinsried, Germany
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : June, 2006 
Bruce R. Korf, MD., Ph.D.
Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Professor
Chairman, Department of Genetics University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : June, 2006 
Professor Carl Adam Petri - 2007 TheATLAS Academy Award
Honorary Professor, Department of Informatics, Hamburg University
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : April, 2007 
Professor Dr. Oktay Sinanoglu - 2007 TheATLAS Academy Award
Became the youngest person in the past century at Yale to attain the status
as a full professor at the age of 28. Nominated twice for Nobel Prize.
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : April, 2007 
Dr. Chun-Yen Chang - 2008 TheATLAS Academy Award
1999 Science & Engineering Award Laureate
Founding Director of National Nano-Device Labs in Taiwan
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : April, 2007
Nobel Laureate Dr. Yuan T. Lee - 2008 TheATLAS Academy Award
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : October, 2007 
Dr. Edgar Mitchell - 2008 TheATLAS Academy Award
Sixth man walked on the Moon
Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : April, 2007 
Dr. Ali Nayfeh
Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech - 2008 TheATLAS Academy Award
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the Honor : October, 2007 
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus- 2009 TheATLAS Academy Award
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the honor: October 2008 
Lily Yeh - 2009 TheATLAS Academy Award
Founder, Artists without Borders
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the honor: October 2008 
Red McCombs - 2010 TheATLAS Academy Award
Chairman & COO
Date of TheATLAS Board decision for the honor: March 2010
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