The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
George M. Whitesides
Title:
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts 02138 USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Chemistry
Award Year:
1998
Citation:
"For innovative and far-ranging research in chemistry, biology, biochemistry and material science, pioneering work of technological interest and his extensive involvement with teaching, government and industry."
Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton at a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999.