1994 CE: ELIZABETH NEUFELD

–awarded the National Medal of Science.

The daughter of Russian Jews, Elizabeth’s family fled Paris in 1940 for New York, to evade the Nazi advance. Neufeld’s resume includes Hunter College High School and Queens College, both in NY. She is currently (2008) in UCLA.

Elizabeth F. Neufeld is an American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.