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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Darleane C. Hoffman

Title:

Professor of the Graduate School and Charter Director

Affiliation:

University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  

Gender:

Female

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

1997

Citation:

"For her discovery of primordial plutonium in nature and the symmetric spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei; for pioneering studies of elements 104, 105, and 106, and for her outstanding service to education of students in nuclear chemistry and as director of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science of the University of California."

Presented President Bill Clinton at a ceremony in Room 450, Old Executive Office Building, on Tuesday, December 16, 1997.

 

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