The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Francis Birch
Title:
Professor of Geological Sciences
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
1992
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1967
Citation:
"For outstanding contributions to geophysics which have immeasurably increased our understanding of the composition and the processes of the interior of the earth."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 13, 1968.