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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

ALEXANDER RICH

Title: William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics
Affiliation:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gender:   Male
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1995
Citation:   "For his numerous fundamental contributions to our knowledge of the structure and function of DNA and RNA, the central information carriers in living systems."
    Awarded by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on October 18, 1995.

 

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