NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONThe White House announced the 2015 recipients of National Medals of Science and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation this week (December 22). The awards honor nominated scientists who have made outstanding contributions to their fields and who have impacted others beyond their scientific communities.
Simon Levin, an ecologist from Princeton University who uses mathematics to study ecosystem patterns, is one of the life scientists honored with a National Medal of Science.“[Levin] helped transform the field of ecology by using theory to frame and crystalize problems, and his ability to listen and learn from empiricists made his work compelling and relevant,” his colleague Daniel Rubenstein of Princeton said in a press release.
Mary-Claire King from the University of Washington is also honored with a National Medal of Science; she demonstrated a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, and identified the gene BRCA1.
Rakesh Jain, an oncologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, was also named a National Medal of Science awardee. Jain has made significant strides toward understanding barriers ...
