Awards & Winners

Ruth Patrick

Date of Birth 26-November-1907
Place of Birth Topeka
(Kansas, United States of America, Area code 785, Shawnee County)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Botanist
Ruth Myrtle Patrick was a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities.

Awards by Ruth Patrick

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ruth Patrick.

1996


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For her algal research, particularly the ecology and paleoecology of diatoms, and for elucidating the importance of biodiversity of aquatic life in ascertaining the natural condition of rivers and the effects of pollution.)