Obama Puts Scientists and Engineers in Spotlight
OCTOBER 08, 2009
MSNBC President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible.Read the story: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33217694/During a White House ceremony, Obama handed out the National Medal of Science and the Medal of Technology and Innovation to more than a dozen recipients. The president said the United States must continue to invest in “the next generation of discoveries and the next generation of discoverers.”
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