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==Recognition and awards== * Hamilton was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, [[Mount Holyoke College]], and [[Smith College]].<ref name=Weber39/> * She was included in the ''American Men in Science: A Biographical Dictionary'' (1906).<ref name="McKeen134"/> * In 1935 [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] presented Hamilton with the [[Chi Omega]] women's fraternity's National Achievement Award.<ref name=NationalAward>{{cite web|title=Grimes, Roosevelt, and Hamilton, standing. Roosevelt is presenting Hamilton with an award.|url=http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|website=Harvard University Library|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124702/http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref> * In 1947 Hamilton became the first woman to receive the [[Albert Lasker Public Service Award]] for her public service contributions.<ref name=Weber39/><ref name=Lasker>{{cite web |title=Albert Lasker Public Service Award |url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm |website=Lasker Foundation |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909172353/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm |archive-date=September 9, 2013 }}</ref> * In 1948 Hamilton received the Donald E. Cummings Memorial Awards from the [[American Industrial Hygiene Association]] (AIHA). In 1993, the AIHA established an award in her honor to recognize the contributions of outstanding women in the field of occupational and environmental hygiene.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2, 2016 |title=Alice Hamilton Award |url=https://www.aiha.org/get-involved/outreach/Pages/Alice-Hamilton-Award.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402152845/https://www.aiha.org/get-involved/outreach/Pages/Alice-Hamilton-Award.aspx |archive-date=April 2, 2016 |access-date=November 1, 2022 }}</ref> * In 1956 she was named ''TIME'' magazine's "Woman of the Year" in medicine.<ref name="Time1956">{{cite magazine|title=Medicine: Woman of the Year|magazine=Time|date=November 19, 1956|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867287,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305073438/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867287,00.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref> * In 1973 Hamilton was posthumously inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref name=NWHF>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-hamilton/|website=Nationanl Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905205555/https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-hamilton/|archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref> * On February 27, 1987, the [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]] dedicated its research facility as the Alice Hamilton Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health. The institute also began giving an annual Alice Hamilton Award to recognize excellent scientific research in the field.<ref name=AwardGiven>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Awards for Occupational Safety and Health|url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|publisher=The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905101209/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/|archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref> * In 1995 the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]] honored Hamilton's contributions to [[public health]] with a 55-cent commemorative postage stamp in its [[Great Americans series]].<ref name=Postage>{{cite web|title=Up 55-cent Hamilton|url=http://arago.si.edu/category_2043110.html|website=Arago: People, Postage and the Post|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203100105/http://arago.si.edu/category_2043110.html|archive-date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> * In 2000 the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, erected statues of Alice, her sister, Edith, and their cousin, Agnes, in the city's Headwaters Park.<ref name=Jay149/> * On September 21, 2002, the [[American Chemical Society]] designated Hamilton and her work in industrial toxicology a [[National Historic Chemical Landmarks|National Historic Chemical Landmark]] in recognition of her pioneering role in the development of occupational medicine.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X"/> * Hamilton has been heralded as a pioneering female environmentalist.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nancy |last=Unger |title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford and New York|pages=87–88}}</ref> The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, sponsors an annual lecture named in recognition of her achievements in these areas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UCSF|url=http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223173638/http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|archive-date=February 23, 2014}}</ref> Since 1997 the [[American Society for Environmental History]] has annually awarded the Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside the ''Environmental History'' journal.<ref>{{cite web| title =Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article| publisher =American Society for Environmental History| url =http://aseh.net/awards-funding/award-recipients/alice-hamilton-prize-for-best-article/view| access-date =May 2, 2017| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170917072529/http://aseh.net/awards-funding/award-recipients/alice-hamilton-prize-for-best-article/view| archive-date =September 17, 2017}}</ref> * On September 26, 2018, one bust of Alice Hamilton was placed in the foyer of the [[FXB International|François-Xavier Bagnoud Building]] of the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]], and another bust, also by local sculptor Robert Shure, was placed in the Atrium in the Tosteson Medical Education Center of the [[Harvard Medical School]]. * Annually, the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]]'s Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) sponsors the annual Alice Hamilton lecture and award to recognize especially promising junior faculty women.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2096/2017/02/Harvard-Final-Self-Study-April-2017.pdf |title=Final Self-Study Report, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |date=June 29, 2024 |page=86}}</ref>
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