National Medal of Science - two Northwestern professors

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<p>copied from an email:</p>

<p>Two Northwestern University faculty members will receive the 2005 National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony Friday, July 27.</p>

<p>They are Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and Tobin J. Marks, Vladimir N. Ipatieff Research Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of materials science and engineering.</p>

<p>Professor Achenbach and Professor Marks are the first Northwestern recipients of the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research.</p>

<p>I invite you to join me in celebrating this significant honor for our faculty members by viewing the webcast, which will be carried live. The ceremony, which will begin at 12:50 p.m. CDT Friday in the East Room of the White House, will be webcast live on the White House web site, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov"&gt;http://www.whitehouse.gov&lt;/a>. A story with this link in it will be posted in the newsbox on the Northwestern home page on Friday.</p>

<p>Professor Achenbach, who received the 2003 National Medal of Technology two years ago, is being honored for his seminal contributions to engineering research and education in the area of wave propagation in solids and for pioneering the field of quantitative non-destructive evaluation.</p>

<p>Professor Marks is being honored for his pioneering research in the areas of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, organo-f-element chemistry, new electronic and photonic materials, and diverse areas of coordination and solid-state chemistry.</p>

<p>For more information on Professor Achenbach, Professor Marks and the National Medal of Science, go to <a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/05/national.html"&gt;http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/05/national.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>PS i think if you even know what any of this means you should be awarded a national medal of science:</p>

<p>" his pioneering research in the areas of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, organo-f-element chemistry, new electronic and photonic materials, and diverse areas of coordination and solid-state chemistry."</p>

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<p>NMS is nation's highest scientific honor. It's very difficult to get. Even the school with the most winners has only 34 of them and that school is Stanford.</p>

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<p>very impressive for northwestern, indeed. i wish i was in the engineering school (not really though! ha) so that i could get the chance to take a class with these professors.</p>

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<p>how many NMS winning professors do we have at NU? and I don't understand why they are getting the 2005 medal in 2007?</p>

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I don't understand why they are getting the 2005 medal in 2007?

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<p>you mean you expect Bush to be on top of things? :rolleyes:</p>