A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has won the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.
Edwin Lightfoot, emeritus professor of chemical and biological engineering, is one of eight recipients of the award, which will be presented by President Bush in a White House ceremony. The date has not yet been set.
Lightfoot joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1953. His textbook, “Transport Phenomena,” published in 1960, is considered a landmark in chemical and biological engineering.