The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Esther M. Conwell
Title:
Research Professor
Affiliation:
University of Rochester
RC Box 270216
Rochester,New York 14627 USA
Gender:
Female
Year Deceased:
2014
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
2009
Citation:
"For her broad contributions to understanding electron and hole transport in semiconducting materials, which helped to enable commercial applications of semiconductor and organic electronic devices, and for extending her analysis to studying the electronic properties of DNA."
Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.