Nation's pride. Economist Kenneth Arrow, plant pathologist Norman Borlaug, and biochemist Phillip Sharp--all Nobel laureates--are among the eight winners of the 2004 National Medal of Science, announced by the White House last month. The other winners are transplant surgeon Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, chemist Stephen Lippard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, biochemical engineer Edwin Lightfoot of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, mathematician Dennis Sullivan of Stony Brook University in New York, and geochemist Robert Clayton of the University of Chicago.
The White House also named two individuals and five companies as winners of the 2004 National Medal of Technology: Ralph Baer for his pioneering role in the development of interactive video games; Roger Easton for contributions to spacecraft tracking, navigation, and timing technology; Gen-Probe Inc. for developing new blood testing technologies; the microelectronics division of IBM for advances in semiconductors; Industrial Light and Magic for innovations in visual effects technology; Motorola for leadership in the communications industry; and Paccar Inc. for developing and commercializing aerodynamic, lightweight trucks.
