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| The 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Pize featured on a Reuters billboard in Times Square. |
The 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize was given to Dr. Brenda Milner, a neuropsychologist from McGill University, for her groundbreaking research on memory. She was presented the Prize on Thursday November 3, 2011 by Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and head of UN Women.
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Why can't all men be like Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard? Shortly after he was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on transmitters in the brain, Dr. Greengard decided to endow a scientific prize of his own -- one most of his fellow Nobel laureates could never even hope to win. Awarded annually by Rockefeller University, The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize spotlights achievement in the field of biomedical research by an outstanding woman. Named after Greengard's mother, the $100,000 prize is one man's attempt to put a plus in a column that carries a lot of minuses. (read more)
