Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts

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Honors

Receiving an honorary doctorate at Emory University with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1998.
With wife Betty Alberts at the Vannevar Bush Award ceremony in DC, 2010.
At UCSF on winning the National Medal of Science. Photo by Sarah Goodwin. October 2014.
Receiving the National Medal of Science from President Obama at the White House on November 2014.
At a White House ceremony in the East Room of The White House on November 20, 2014, President Obama honors the newest recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These awards are the highest honors bestowed by the United States Government for achievements in science, technology, and innovation. Photo by Ryan K. Morris
Receiving the National Medal of Science from President Obama at the White House on November 20, 2014.
President Barack Obama joins National Medal of Science recipients for a group photo in the Blue Room before honoring recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the East Room of the White House, Nov. 20, 2014. Honorees are: Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco, Calif.; Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan, Mich.; May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill.; Alexandre J. Chorin, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; Thomas Kailath, Stanford University, Calif.; Judith P. Klinman, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University, N.Y.; Burton Richter, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, Calif.; Sean C. Solomon, Columbia University, N.Y.; and David Blackwell, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. (posthumous). (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.)

Current Work

Why Trust Science?

Interview with Paul Nurse: Why how science works must be taught

Concrete steps to diversify the scientific workforce

Improving support for young biomedical scientists

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