President Honors 10 With National Medals of Science

President Obama on Friday announced the 10 researchers who have been named recipients of the National Medal of Science. They are:

• Yakir Aharonov of Chapman University.
• Stephen J. Benkovic of Pennsylvania State University.
• Esther M. Conwell of the University of Rochester.
• Marye Anne Fox of the University of California at San Diego.
• Susan L. Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Mortimer Mishkin of the National Institutes of Health.
• David B. Mumford of Brown University.
• Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California at San Francisco.
• Warren M. Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
• Amnon Yariv of the California Institute of Technology.