• The Double Helix Medal has been awarded annually since 2006 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to individuals who have positively impacted human health...
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    reference to him. Each year, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory awards a Double Helix Medal to individuals who have positively impacted human health, either by...
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    James Watson (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were...
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    people in the world, in the "Heroes" category. In 2011, she received a Double Helix Medal. She has received honorary degrees from many universities including...
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    Herbert Boyer (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    in Life Science and Medicine 2005 Winthrop-Sears Medal 2007 Perkin Medal 2009 CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree "Shaping Life in the Lab: The Boom In Genetic...
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    American Academy of Achievement. Axel was awarded the Double Helix Medal in 2007. CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal...
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    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    while attending a concert. In 2011, Abdul-Jabbar was awarded the Double Helix Medal for his work in raising awareness for cancer research. Also in 2011...
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    of Greece to be built in Thessaloniki. Bourla also earned a 2022 Double Helix Medal "for spearheading the rapid development of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine"...
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  • was held at the Central Synagogue in New York City. Double Helix Medal 2010: CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree Horyn, Cathy (November 12, 2011). "Evelyn H...
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    Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 2010 – Double Helix Medal 2015 – Abel Prize (with Louis Nirenberg) "for striking and seminal...
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    Stanley Norman Cohen (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    Herbert Boyer) 2006 elected to the American Philosophical Society 2009 Double Helix Medal 2016 Biotechnology Heritage Award, from the Biotechnology Industry...
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    Honour[citation needed] 2014: Legion of Honour 2009: Double Helix Medal 1952: Bronze Star Medal, for service in Korean War "Crain Lifetime Achievement...
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    doi:10.1093/genetics/119.2.s1. PMC 1203430. PMID 17246435. "2015 Double Helix Medal recipient Dr. David Botstein". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. November...
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    Craig Venter (category Leeuwenhoek Medal winners)
    received an honorary doctorate from Imperial College London. 2008: Double Helix Medal from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2008: Kistler Prize from Foundation...
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    Tonight (2008) 2017: National Women's Hall of Fame Inductee 2008: CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree 2007, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, presented by Academy...
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    CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree Martin Luther King Memorial Award Presidential Citizens Medal Presidential Medal of Freedom Otto Hahn Peace Medal Hollywood...
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  • of DNA, which eventually facilitated the correct description of the double helix structure of DNA. Owing to disagreement with her director, John Randall...
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    work with Autism Speaks. They were presented with the first-ever "Double Helix Medal" for Corporate Leadership from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the...
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    Darmstaedter Prize 2012, member, American Philosophical Society 2010, CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree 2006, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2006, Weizmann Women...
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    DNA (redirect from Double-stranded DNA)
    composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning...
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    Harold E. Varmus (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) 2011: Double Helix Medal 2012: Glenn T. Seaborg Medal Varmus has been married since 1969 to Constance Louise...
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    Communications (November 9, 2006). "CSHL Raises $2.5 Million at Inaugural Double Helix Medals Event & Launches $200 Million Capital Campaign". Cold Spring Harbor...
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    Francis Crick (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    centre of a double helix. Crick's access to Franklin's progress report of late 1952 is what made Crick confident that DNA was a double helix with antiparallel...
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  • Republican Club 1990 Gold Medal - National Institute of Social Sciences 2007 Woodrow Wilson Award - Smithsonian Institution 2010 Double Helix Award - Cold Spring...
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  • Scientific Research" Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Double Helix Medals, 2009, accessed Feb. 8, 2012. Center for Oral History. "Allan S....
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    Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient is or was renowned. The Presidential Medal of Freedom...
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  • alternative models of DNA structure that provided insights beyond the standard double helix model. For his contributions to the biological sciences, he was awarded...
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  • 1990, Gümlingen, Switzerland) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. He was a Professor for organic chemistry at the University of Bern from...
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  • keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in...
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    Lawrence Bragg (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Rosalind Franklin, whose "photograph 51" showed that DNA was a double helix, not the triple helix that Linus Pauling had proposed. Franklin died before the...
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