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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

BRITTON CHANCE

Title: Director, Johnson Research Foundation and Chairman, Department of Biophysics
Affiliation:   University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174 USA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   2010
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1974
Citation:   "For his contributions to our knowledge of cellular and subcellular physiology made through work on enzyme-substrate complexes, on the kinetics of enzyme action, and on the mechanism and control of membrane-bound elecron transfer during cellular respiration."
    1974 Medal presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on September 18, 1975.

 

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