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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Francis Birch

Title:

Professor of Geological Sciences

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1992

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1967

Citation:

"For outstanding contributions to geophysics which have immeasurably increased our understanding of the composition and the processes of the interior of the earth."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 13, 1968.

 

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