Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
05/02/2007
Pelosi: ‘American Scientists Are on the Cutting Edge of Innovation’
“In 2006, for the first time in more than 20 years, scientists from the
“I am especially proud that three of the five scientists hail from my home state of
“An enhanced federal investment in long-term basic research is crucial to future innovations and
“The House Innovation Agenda calls for a long-term sustained commitment to funding basic research, and this week on the House floor, we are living up to that commitment with authorizations that will put us on the path to double funding for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology within 10 years.
“I want to recognize the leadership of the Science and Technology Committee on these efforts, especially Chairman Bart Gordon of
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The following scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize Science Awards in 2006:
· In chemistry, Roger D. Kornberg from
· In physiology or medicine, Andrew Fire from Stanford University School of Medicine and Craig Mello from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts for their discovery of RNA interference through gene silencing by double-stranded RNA; and
· In physics, John C. Mather from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland and George F. Smoot, a National Science Foundation grantee from the University of California at Berkeley, for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.