UCSD Chem Professor Honored by NAS

January 19, 2006 on 11:22 am | In News & Events |

The National Academy of Sciences will honor Dr. Russell F. Doolittle with the John J. Carty Award at their 143rd annual meeting this April. He is one of the 15 men and women who will be honored that the meeting.

From the NAS press release: a medal and prize of $25,000 awarded annually for noteworthy and distinguished accomplishment in any field of science (computational science in 2006) – goes to Russell F. Doolittle, research professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry and division of biology, University of California, San Diego. Doolittle was chosen “for contributing seminal insights and methods for using computers as an aid to characterizing protein function, in comparing amino acid sequences, and for phylogenetic reconstructions.” The award was established by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in honor of John J. Carty and has been awarded since 1932.