Mike Fuller Receives 2012 John Adam Fleming Medal: Response

John Dabiri receives 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

John Tyndall and the Royal Medal that was never struck.

Just once in its long history has a Royal Medal been awarded but not presented. John Tyndall FRS (1820-93) was the chosen recipient in 1853 for his early work on diamagnetism but declined to accept it. The story of why Tyndall felt compelled to turn down this considerable honour sheds light on the scientific politics and personal relationships of the time, on the importance given to the study o...

Roy John Britten (1919-2012)

Roy John Britten studied DNA sequences in the US in the second half of the twentieth century, and he helped discover repetitive elements in DNA sequences. Additionally, Britten helped propose models and concepts of gene regulatory networks [5]. Britten studied the organization [6] of repetitive elements and, analyzing data from the Human Genome Project, he found that the repetitive elements in ...

The 2012 Genetics Society of America Medal: Joanne Chory.

AS a senior graduate student contemplating my postdoctoral options, I was struck by the paper “Arabidopsis thaliana mutant that develops as a light-grown plant in the absence of light” (Chory et al. 1989). The temerity of looking for mutant plants that developed as if in the light when in the dark, along with the fact that this idea was only then being brought to fruition, was striking. The pos...

Amy Finkelstein: 2012 John Bates Clark Medalist

A my Finkelstein is the 2012 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. A notable feature of Amy’s research program is the dedication with which she has pursued her core interests in insurance markets and health care. She has addressed, with new insights at each turn, central issues such as whether asymmetric information leads to ineffi ciencies in insurance...