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Massachusetts Institute of Technology biophysicist Alexander Rich has been selected to receive Sigma Xi's 2001 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. He will deliver the Procter Prize Address at the annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, in November.
Sigma Xi's highest honor, the annual Procter Prize recognizes scientific achievement and an ability to communicate the importance of that research to others. It includes a $5,000 prize and the privilege of selecting a student to receive a $5,000 Grant-in-Aid of Research
William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT, Rich is best known for his discovery of left-handed DNA, or Z-DNA, and the three-dimensional structure of transfer RNA,...