While was advising Gary Hart's AIDS policy committee in 1987, discovered and was the first (and probably only one) to report to the authors a serious error in the epidemiology model of AIDS published in the Nature cover story: May RM, Anderson RM: Transmission dynamics of HIV infection. Nature 1987, 326:137-142 which was corrected in the later article: Anderson, RM, May RM: Epidemiological parameters of HIV transmission. Nature 1988; 333:514-519. This error had apparently led a CDC-affiliated AIDS activist to spread the "good news" that the AIDS epidemic was over to various mass media outlets.
Robert W. Bussard's (1995) Submission of My (1992) Fusion Prize Legislation to Congress
The Bowery Award for Amateur Rocketry (1995)
The Wired Magazine (2000) Article Mentioning My Amateur Rocketry Prize
US Patent 6,212,876 (2001) for ultra-centrifugal rocket engine coinvented with Roger Gregory
The C-Prize (2005) -- The Most Crucial Technology Prize of All (Current public emphasis.)
The O-Prize (2006) -- A technology prize to shift oil production to algae and supplant omega-3 fatty acid nutrition relying on dwindling fish stocks with algae oil. and The Algae Slurry Diesel Prize -- A technology prize to demonstrate relatively unprocessed algae slurry as diesel fuel.