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Philadelphia's Franklin Institute combined its Bower Award ceremonies with its traditional "Medal Day" last month, honoring six scientists and a businessman at a gala ceremony. Individual medals, which do not carry a cash prize but are a time-honored tradition at the institute--some dating back more than 100 years--were awarded to Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado's department of chemistry and biochemistry, for his contribution to the synthesis of DNA oligonucleotides; Joseph Braat of Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, for his work on optical data recording, making possible compact discs; Harold J. Kushner of Brown University's division of applied mathematics, for research on stochastic systems; Stirling A. Colgate of Los Alamos National Laboratory, for his studies of stellar collapse and supernova explosions; and Barbara V. Howard of George Washington University's department of medicine, for her studies of diet and coronary heart disease. The Bower Award for ...

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