Nina V.
Fedoroff
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology
Pennsylvania State University
2006
Biology
For her pioneering work on plant molecular biology, and for her being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons. She has contributed to education and public policy pertaining to
recombinant DNA and genetic modification of plants.
Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.