Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Weinberg won the National Medal of Science and the Keio Medical Science Prize in 1997. In 1999, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in recognition of his valuable and pioneering contributions in the field of Biomedical Sciences and for his productive trajectory related to the genetic and molecular basis of neoplastic disease. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2000. He obtained the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2004 (shared with Roger Y. Tsien), and he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate degree in commemoration of Linnaeus from Uppsala University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1992. In 2009 he was presented the Hope Funds Award in Basic Research. In 2013 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work and in 2021 he received the Japan Prize. Retractions To this day Weinberg has had five research papers retracted where he is listed as a co-author. The retractions include one paper in Cell, one in Cancer Cell, two in Genes & Development and one in Cancer Research. The reasons given for the retraction of one paper (DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.04) include: "Falsification/Fabrication of Data" and "Manipulation of Results". See also Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015 PBS film) History of cancer History of cancer chemotherapy The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer References External links Weinberg's page at the Whitehead Institute Weinberg's page at MIT Weinberg Lab Bob Weinberg Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler radio show March 17, 2004 Weinberg interviewed in American Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Albert Einstein World Award of Science Laureates 21st-century American biologists National Medal of Science laureates Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Living people 1942 births Jewish American scientists Whitehead Institute faculty American oncologists Scientists from Pittsburgh Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society 21st-century American Jews Members of the National Academy of Medicine