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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Frank H. Westheimer

Title:

Loeb Professor of Chemistry

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02138 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2005

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

1986

Citation:

"For his series of extraordinary, original and penetrating investigations of the mechanisms of organic and enzymic reactions, which have played an unequaled role in the advancement of our knowledge of the ways in which chemical and biochemical processes proceed."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on March 12, 1986.

 

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