Recipients of Nation's Highest Science and Honors Announced

The 1998 recipients of the nation's highest science and technology honors, the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology, were announced last week.

The National Medal of Science, established by Congress in 1959 and administered by the National Science Foundation, honors individuals for contributions to the present state of knowledge in a variety of science frontiers.

The National Medal of Technology, established by Congress in 1980 and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, recognizes technological innovation and advancement of the nation's global competitive-ness, as well as ground-breaking contributions that commercialize a technology, create jobs, improve productivity, or stimulate the nation's growth and development in other ways.

The nine winners of the Medal of Science and the five winners of the Medal of Technology are:

1998 National Medal of Science Recipients

• Bruce N. Ames, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

• Don L. Anderson, Professor of Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory

• John N. Bahcall, Professor of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, New Jersey

• John W. Cahn, Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland

• Cathleen S. Morawetz, Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University

• Janet D. Rowley, Professor at the University of Chicago, Illinois

• Eli Ruckenstein, Professor of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo

• George M. Whitesides, Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, Massachusetts

• William Julius Wilson, Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts

1998 National Medal of Technology Recipients

• Denton A. Cooley, MD, Founder, President and Surgeon- in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute

• Team Award jointly to Kenneth L. Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie, (Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories) in New Jersey

• Team Award jointly to Robert T. Fraley, Robert B. Horsch, Ernest G. Jaworski and Stephen G. Rogers (Monsanto) in Missouri

• Biogen, Inc. of Massachusetts

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company of New York