Lynn Margulis

Recipient
Year
Citation

Lynn
Margulis

Distinguished University Professor

University of Massachusetts
1999
Biology

For her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public.

Presented by President William Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, March 14, 2000.