Lucy
Shapiro
Professor of Developmental Biology and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine
Stanford University
2011
Biology
For the pioneering discovery that the bacterial cell is controlled by an integrated genetic circuit functioning in time and space that serves as a systems engineering paradigm underlying cell differentiation and ultimately the generation of diversity in all organisms.
President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.