The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia handed out its awards for 2004 to seven individuals for their achievements in physics, among other scientific fields. The awards ceremony was held this past April.
The institute honored Seymour Benzer with its Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, which was accompanied by a purse of $250 000, for his “pioneering discoveries that both founded and greatly advanced the field of neurogenetics, thereby transforming our understanding of the brain.” Benzer began his career as a solid-state physicist but later switched to biology. He currently is James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at Caltech.
Raymond V. Damadian garnered the Bower Award for Business Leadership for his “development of magnetic resonance imaging used in clinical applications, which has transformed the diagnosis and treatment of disease.” He is chairman and president of the FONAR Corp, which develops and manufactures MRI scanners, in Melville, New York....
