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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Susan Lee Lindquist

Title:

Professor of Biology

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nine Cambridge Center

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02142 USA

Gender:

Female

Year Deceased:

2016

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

2009

Citation:

"For her studies of protein folding, demonstrating that alternative protein conformations and aggregations can have profound and unexpected biological influences, facilitating insights in fields as wide-ranging as human disease, evolution, and biomaterials."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.

 

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