Obama Honors 10 With National Medal of Science

President Obama on Friday announced 10 recipients of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor in science.

The winners are:

• Bruce Alberts, University of California at San Francisco
• Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan
• May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David Blackwell, University of California at Berkeley (awarded posthumously)
• Alexandre J. Chorin, University of California at Berkeley
• Thomas Kailath, Stanford University, CA
• Judith P. Klinman, University of California at Berkeley
• Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University
• Burton Richter, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University
• Sean C. Solomon, Columbia University

More information and links on the winners may be found here.