Medal for Merit recipients

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

American scientist (1901–1994)

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)

American physicist (1898–1988)

American physical chemist

American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)

American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)

Australian pathologist (1898-1968)

American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)

American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)

US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)

American chemist (1893–1978)

47th Secretary of the Navy of the United States (1874-1944)

American commercial aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways (1899–1981)

American physicist (1887–1954)

American electronic engineer (1900-1982)

Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor

American mathematician and physicist (1903–1961)

American businessman (1886–1961)

American politician (1891-1966)

Canadian firearm designer (1888–1974)

American cryptologist (1891–1969)

American aerospace engineer (1895–1982)

American physicist (1907-1975)

American physicist (1901–1994)

American chemist (1892-1949)

American physicist (1903–1985)

former US civilian decoration (1942-1952)

Canadian spymaster (1897–1989)

American businessman, scientist and philanthropist (1887–1975)

Belgian businessman and director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining company during World War II. (1879–1963)

president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator

American chemist (1900–1982)

American diplomat (1874–1959)

American historian

American mathematician (1877–1961)

British metallurgist (1903–1992)

American electrical engineer

American naval officer and engineering instructor

American physicist and engineer

American aerospace engineer

American chemist (1894-1957)

American astronomer (1914-2005)