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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

KONRAD E. BLOCH

Title: Higgins Professor of Biochemistry
Affiliation:   Harvard University
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   2000
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Award Discipline:   Chemistry
Award Year:   1988
Citation:   "For his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents."
    Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on July 15, 1988.
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Nobel Laureate:   Physiology or Medicine, 1964

 

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