The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Jacqueline Barton
Title:
Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
1200 East California Blvd.
Pasadena,California 91125 USA
Gender:
Female
Award Discipline:
Chemistry
Award Year:
2010
Citation:
"For discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer."
Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on Friday, October 21, 2011.