![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107032514im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Entrepreneurial Leader Recognized For Bridging Disciplines and Innovating Solutions
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June 26, 2008
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Joseph M. DeSimone, director of the NSF-funded Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes in North Carolina, was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for bridging the interface between seemingly disparate fields and concepts to foster invention and innovation.
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Source Lemelson-MIT Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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