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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 16, 1991
President George Bush presented the 1991 National Medal of
Science to Dr. Edward C. Stone Jr., director of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., today at a ceremony in the White
House Rose Garden.
Stone was among more than 30 people who received either the
National Medal of Science or the National Medal of Technology. He
received the medal in the physical sciences category "for his
outstanding leadership as project scientist for the Voyager space
mission and his experiments in the outer solar system."
The ceremony was attended by Commerce Secretary Robert A.
Mosbacher; D. Allan Bromley, assistant to the president for science
and technology; and the President's Committee on the National Medal
of Science. The presentation was followed later by a black-tie
dinner in honor of the recipients at the State Department.
Stone became JPL's director on Jan. 1, 1991. From 1972 to the
present, Stone has been the Voyager project scientist at JPL,
participating in both hardware development and mission operations.
He is also a vice president at the California Institute of
Technology, which operates JPL under contract with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Since the launch of the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977, Stone
has coordinated the efforts of 11 teams of scientists in their
investigations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The
Voyagers, after delivering spectacular images of the planets, will
leave the solar system and enter interstellar space.
Overall Stone has been a principal investigator on nine NASA
spacecraft and a co-investigator on nine others.
From 1983 to 1988, Stone served as chairman of Caltech's
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1984, he is the recipient of many
scientific honors and awards, including the NASA Distinguished
Service Medal, the Space Science Award of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, the NASA Distinguished Public Service
Medal, the American Education Award of the American Association of
School Administrators, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.
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