The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Stanley N. Cohen
Title:
Professor of Genetics
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Stanford,California 94305 USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1988
Citation:
"For his discovery of methods for propagating and expressing the hereditary information of DNA introduced into living cells, thereby enabling the cloning of individual genes and the study of their structure and function."
Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
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