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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Lucy Shapiro

Title:

Professor of Developmental Biology and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine

Affiliation:

Stanford University

279 Campus Drive Beckman Center B300

Stanford,California 94305 USA

Gender:

Female

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

2011

Citation:

"For the pioneering discovery that the bacterial cell is controlled by an integrated genetic circuit functioning in time and space that serves as a systems engineering paradigm underlying cell differentiation and ultimately the generation of diversity in all organisms."

President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.

 

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