[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 21, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1092]
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 HONORING MR. DAVID SCHLEGEL, MR. PEIDONG YANG, MS. CAROLYN BERTOZZI, 
                          AND MR. JIZHONG ZHOU

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                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 21, 2015

  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the accomplishments of 
four scientists, affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory, who have been named by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz 
as recipients of the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Department 
of Energy's highest scientific honor.
  The Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awards were 
established by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1959, to honor Ernest 
Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron, the 
forerunner of today's particle accelerators, and the founder and 
namesake of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory--located in my 
very own 13th Congressional District of California.
  The four winners associated with the Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory and their accomplishments are as follows:
  David Schlegel, an astrophysicist who serves as the Principal 
Investigator for the BOSS project on the Sloan Telescope, the Co-
Principal Investigator for the DECals sky survey, and the Project 
Scientist for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). He was 
recognized for his ``exceptional leadership of major projects making 
the largest two-dimensional and three-dimensional maps of the universe, 
which have helped ascertain the nature of Dark Energy, test General 
Relativity, and positively impact fundamental understanding of matter 
and energy in the universe.''
  Peidong Yang, a faculty chemist who holds joint appointments with 
Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the University of 
California (UC) Berkeley, where he holds the S.K. and Angela Chan 
Distinguished Professor of Energy chair, and the Kavli Energy 
NanoSciences Institute (Kavli-ENSI), for which he is a co-director. He 
was recognized for his ``seminal research advancing the synthesis and 
understanding of nanoscale materials, including semiconductor nanowires 
and metal nanocrystals, and their impact to structures and devices for 
applications in nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and energy 
conversion.''
  Carolyn Bertozzi, also a faculty chemist with Berkeley Lab's 
Materials Sciences Division, a professor of chemistry and of chemical 
and systems biology at Stanford University, and an Investigator of the 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was recognized for her 
``significant scientific research contributions at the interface of 
chemistry, biology and nanoscience, including major advances in the 
chemistry and biology of complex carbohydrates, including the 
development of nanotechnologies and chemistries for probing biological 
systems, optimizing bioreactors, and innovating tailored devices and 
materials.''
  Jizhong Zhou, a Presidential Professor in Botany and Microbiology and 
Director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University 
of Oklahoma, a guest researcher with Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences 
Division, and a principal investigator for ENIGMA (Ecosystems and 
Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies). He was 
recognized for his ``outstanding accomplishments in environmental 
genomics and microbial ecology, including the development of innovative 
metagenomics technologies for environmental sciences, for 
groundbreaking discoveries to understand the feedbacks, mechanisms, and 
fundamental principles of microbial systems in response to 
environmental change, and for transformative leadership to elucidate 
microbial ecological networks and to link microbial biodiversity with 
ecosystem functions.''
  On behalf of the residents of California's 13th Congressional 
District, I salute you all. I thank you for your contributions to the 
scientific field and congratulate you on your many achievements in 
research.

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