The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
John W. Milnor
Title:
Professor of Mathematics
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Princeton,New Jersey USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Mathematics and Computer Science
Award Year:
1966
Citation:
"For clever and ingenious approaches in topology which have solved long outstanding problems and opened new exciting areas in this active branch of mathematics."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 6, 1967.