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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Don L. Anderson

Title:

Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geophysics

Affiliation:

California Institute of Technology

Seismological Laboratory

  

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2014

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1998

Citation:

"For his leading contributions to understanding the composition, structure, and dynamics of Earth and Earth-like planets, and his influence on the advancement of Earth sciences over the past three decades nationally and internationally."

Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999.

 

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