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Encyclopedia > Public Welfare Medal

The Public Welfare Medal is awarded annually by the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy states that the award is "Presented by the Council of the Academy in recognition of distinguished contributions in the application of science to the public welfare". President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...


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Maxine F. Singer to receive Public Welfare Medal (708 words)
The Public Welfare Medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good.
As a leader on issues related to the use of genetic manipulation in research and its promise in curing disease, Singer was among the first to bring to public attention the issue of recombinant DNA's potential risks and quickly became a leader in the scientific community's important efforts to regulate itself.
A product of the city's public schools, she received her bachelor's degree with high honors in chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1952 and her doctorate in biochemistry from Yale University in 1957.
NAS awards medal to David Hamburg: 3/98 (158 words)
The National Academy of Sciences will award its Public Welfare Medal in April to David A. Hamburg, president emeritus of the Carnegie Corp. of New York and a Stanford professor of medicine and human biology from 1961 to 1976.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and last year the Carnegie Corp. honored him by funding fellowships and symposia at Stanford in two areas of special interest to him ­ the prevention of deadly conflict and the problems of early adolescence.
The Public Welfare Medal was established in 1914 to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good.
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