Michael Artin and Shirley Jackson
win nation’s highest honor in science and technology...
Michael Artin and Shirley Ann Jackson
Photos: Donna Coveney (Artin) and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Jackson)
Excerpt as reported by the MIT News Office
MIT Professor Emeritus Michael Artin
and MIT Corporation Life Member Shirley Ann Jackson ’68 PhD ’73
are among 17 world-class researchers in the country who have been
awarded the nation’s highest honors for scientists and innovators,
the White House announced December 22, 2015.
President Barack Obama will present the
National Medal of Science to Artin, professor emeritus in the
Department of Mathematics, and Jackson, the president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, at a ceremony early next year. With these
awards, Artin and Jackson bring to 58 the number of MIT scientists
who have won the National Medal of Science.
This year, the White House has awarded
the National Medal of Science to nine recipients and named eight
awardees of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
“Science and technology are
fundamental to solving some of our nation’s biggest challenges,”
Obama said in an announcement yesterday. “The knowledge produced by
these Americans today will carry our country’s legacy of innovation
forward and continue to help countless others around the world. Their
work is a testament to American ingenuity.”
