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NEWS RELEASES


  NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE APPOINTED AS SENIOR NASA ADVISOR 



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NEWS RELEASES


NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE APPOINTED AS SENIOR NASA ADVISOR 

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin named Dr. Baruch 
Blumberg, director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute and winner of 
the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, as senior advisor 
to the Administrator, effective today.
 
As senior advisor, Blumberg will provide guidance for NASA's newly 
created enterprise, the Office of Biological and Physical Research 
in its efforts to develop an interdisciplinary research program 
focused on biology, bringing together physics, chemistry, biology 
and engineering. Blumberg also will continue in his role as 
director of the Astrobiology Institute.


Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Renee Juhans 
(Phone: 202/358-1712)


For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-164.txt



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