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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: ALEXANDER VASHAVSKY - SCIENTIST

By Greg Siskind

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The Vilcek Foundation, a foundation that "honors and supports foreign-born scientists and artists who have made outstanding contributions to society in the United States" has announced its 2010 prize winners. The top award winner in biomedical science is Alexander Vashavsky. Russian-born Varshavsky is one of the world's leading molecular biologists. The Vilcek award biography describes his accomplishments: Alexander Varshavsky was born to do science: his father was a scientist, his mother a physician?a case of nurture and nature combined, as he describes it. He was also born into a society whose privations suppressed many of the great scientific minds of...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).

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