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President Obama presents the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology to APS Fellows

March 1, 2013

Photo by Michael Lucibella

President Obama congratulates James Wynne and Rangaswamy Srinivasan who were honored, together with their late colleague Samuel Blum, for the invention of excimer laser surgery, the technique that makes LASIK surgery possible.

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President Obama presents the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology to APS Fellows | American Physical Society