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* National Recognition: President Clinton will be presenting the nation’s top science and technology awards this week in Washington to 14 top scientists, inventors and business leaders. Among them are four Californians.
Marshall N. Rosenbluth of UC San Diego will be awarded the National Medal of Science, as will UC Berkeley researchers Darleane C. Hoffman and Harold S. Johnston. San Francisco inventor Ray M. Dolby will receive the National Medal of Technology.
The National Science & Technology Medals Foundation is a nonprofit corporation established to fund activities in those sectors as well as to broaden public understanding of the link between scientific and technological excellence and economic prosperity, job creation and a higher standard of living.
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