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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Nina V. Fedoroff

Title:

Evan Pugh Professor of Biology

Affiliation:

Pennsylvania State University

219 Wartik Lab

University Park,Pennsylvania 16802 USA

Gender:

Female

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

2006

Citation:

"For her pioneering work on plant molecular biology, and for her being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons. She has contributed to education and public policy pertaining to recombinant DNA and genetic modification of plants."

Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.

 

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