Norman Davidson National Medal of Science Awarded In 1996
Norman Davidson
Award Name : National Medal of Science
Year of Award : 1996
Award for : Chemistry
Location : Chicago, Illinois, United States
Norman Davidson was an American molecular biologist notable for advancing genome research, member of the National Academy of Sciences, received a National Medal of Science from U.S. President Bill Clinton, was a professor at Caltech. He was born on April 5, 1916 in Chicago. He received B.S. degree in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1937, and received another B.S. degree at the University of Oxford in 1939 as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1941 he received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago. Davidson joined the Caltech faculty as a chemistry instructor, and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life. He became a tenured professor of chemistry in 1952, a full professor in 1957, executive officer for chemistry in 1967, and Norman Chandler Professor of Chemical Biology in 1982. He also served briefly as interim chair of the Division of Biology in 1989.
