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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Esther M. Conwell

Title:

Research Professor

Affiliation:

University of Rochester

RC Box 270216

Rochester,New York 14627 USA

Gender:

Female

Year Deceased:

2014

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2009

Citation:

"For her broad contributions to understanding electron and hole transport in semiconducting materials, which helped to enable commercial applications of semiconductor and organic electronic devices, and for extending her analysis to studying the electronic properties of DNA."

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

 

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