National Medal of Science Announcement of Award to 20 Recipients.

The President today announced the award of the National Medal of Science to 20 recipients. The Medal is the highest honor the Federal Government accords the Nation's scientists and engineers.

The recipients are:

ROBERT H. BURRIS, W. H. Peterson professor of biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.;

ELIZABETH C. BROSBY, professor of anatomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.;

JOSEPH LEO DOOB, professor of mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.;

RICHARD PHILLIPS FEYNMAN, Richard Chase Tolman professor of physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.;

DONALD E. KNUTH, professor of computer science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.;

ARTHUR KORNBERG, professor of biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.;

EMMETT NORMAN LEITH, professor of electrical engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.;

HERMAN F. MARK, professor of chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y.;

RAYMOND D. MINDLIN, James Kip Finch professor of applied science, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.;

ROBERT N. NOYCE, chairman, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif;

SEVERO OCHOA, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, N.J.;

EARL R. PARKER, professor of metallurgy, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.;

EDWARD MILLS PURCELL, professor of physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.;

SIMON RAMO, vice chairman of the board, TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, Calif.;

JOHN H. SINFELT, scientific adviser, EXXON Corporate Research Laboratories, Linden, N.J.;

LYMAN SPITZER, Jr., Charles A. Young professor of astronomy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.;

EARL REECE STADTMAN, chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md.;

GEORGE LEDYARD STEBBINS, JR., professor of genetics, University of California, Davis, Calif.;

PAUL A. WEISS, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y.;

VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF, Institute professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

The National Medal of Science was established in 1959 by the 86th Congress. It is presented to individuals who, in the judgement of the President, "are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." To date, 133 Medals have been awarded, beginning in 1962. Each President beginning with Kennedy has awarded Medals. President Carter presented the most recent awards on November 22, 1977.

The presentation of the award to the 1979 recipients will occur in the near future.