The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Nina V. Fedoroff
Title:
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
219 Wartik Lab
University Park,Pennsylvania 16802 USA
Gender:
Female
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2006
Citation:
"For her pioneering work on plant molecular biology, and for her being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons. She has contributed to education and public policy pertaining to recombinant DNA and genetic modification of plants."
Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.