The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: | Distinguished Service Member | |||
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Affiliation: | Carnegie Institution of Washington | |||
Cold Spring Harbor, New York USA | ||||
Gender: | Female | |||
Year Deceased: | 1992 | |||
Award Discipline: | Biological Sciences | |||
Award Year: | 1970 | |||
Citation: | "For establishing the relations between inherited characters in plants and the detailed shapes of their chromosomes, and for showing that some genes are controlled by other genes within chromosomes." | |||
Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on May 21, 1971. | ||||
Nobel Laureate: | Physiology or Medicine, 1983 |