Bonnie Bassler is the recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award

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Date:  Jan. 20, 2011

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Acad­emy Hon­ors 13 for Major Con­tri­bu­tions to Science

 

WASHINGTON — The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences (NAS) will honor 13 indi­vid­u­als with awards rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ments in the areas of biol­ogy, chem­istry, physics, eco­nom­ics and psychology.

 

The recip­i­ents for 2011 are:

 

“Bon­nie L. Bassler, Howard Hughes Med­ical Insti­tute Inves­ti­ga­tor, and Squibb Pro­fes­sor in the depart­ment of mol­e­c­u­lar biol­ogy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, is the recip­i­ent of the Richard Louns­bery Award. Bassler is being hon­ored for her pio­neer­ing dis­cov­er­ies of the uni­ver­sal use of chem­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion among bac­te­ria and the elu­ci­da­tion of struc­tural and reg­u­la­tory mech­a­nisms con­trol­ling bac­te­r­ial assem­blies. This $50,000 prize rec­og­nizes extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ment by French and Amer­i­can sci­en­tists in biol­ogy and medicine.”

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Source: What’s New @ The National Academies

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