The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
William Julius Wilson
Title:
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Affiliation:
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Cambridge,Massachusetts 02138 USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Behavioral and Social Science
Award Year:
1998
Citation:
"For his innovative approach to studying urban poverty, his dedication to the proposition that rigorous social science change will improve his fellow American's lives, and his advocacy of policies which reflect more accurately what we have learned from research and which therefore take a broader point of view with respect to the interactions of race, class, and location."
Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton at a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999.