President Names Country’s Top Scientists And Innovators

Oct. 14, 2014
President Obama named the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honors in advancing the fields of science and technology.

President Obama named the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honors in advancing the fields of science and technology, according to the National Science Foundation. The annual awards honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics and the biological, behavioral/social and physical sciences.

This year’s National Medal of Science Laureates include Bruce Alberts, an internationally-renowned biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco; Judith Klinman, a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley renowned for her work on enzymes, and Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell University, considered one of the fathers of chemical ecology.

See the complete list of honorees here.

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