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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

HAROLD E. EDGERTON

Title: Professor Emeritus
Affiliation:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cambridge, MassachusettsUSA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   1990
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Award Discipline:   Engineering
Award Year:   1973
Citation:   "For his vision and creativity in pioneering the field of stroboscopic photography and for his many inventions of instruments for exploring the great depths of the oceans."
    Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on October 10, 1973.
Medal of Technology recipient   Award Year 1988

 

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