Colorado’s Warren Washington is among the Americans who show “the promise of science,” President Barack Obama said during a ceremony Wednesday at the White House.
Washington, an internationally recognized climate-change scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, was among 10 groundbreaking researchers, scientists and engineers to whom the president presented the National Medal of Science, the government’s highest honor.
Washington, 74, was lauded for developing and using global climate models to understand climate and explain the role of human activities and natural processes in the Earth’s climate system.
Obama said the honorees’ achievements “stand as a testament to the ingenuity, to their zeal for discovery and to the willingness to give of themselves and to sacrifice in order to expand the reach of human understanding. All of us have benefited from their work.”
Other recipients included scientists from corporate, government and university settings whose contributions included super glue, microchips and digital cameras, as well as unlocking the secrets of genetics and disease, nanotechnology, solar energy, and chemistry and biology. Denver Post staff and wire reports
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