The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Frank H. Westheimer
Title:
Loeb Professor of Chemistry
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts 02138 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2005
Award Discipline:
Chemistry
Award Year:
1986
Citation:
"For his series of extraordinary, original and penetrating investigations of the mechanisms of organic and enzymic reactions, which have played an unequaled role in the advancement of our knowledge of the ways in which chemical and biochemical processes proceed."
Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on March 12, 1986.