Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs, was awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award [1]. The award was established by the American Society of Plant Biologists [2] and first given in 1983. It is made triennially to a scientist or lay person in recognition of outstanding service to the science of plant biology.
The Carnegie Institution of Washington, a private nonprofit organization, has been a pioneering force in basic scientific research since 1902. It has six research departments: the Geophysical Laboratory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, both located in Washington, D.C.; The Observatories, in Pasadena, California, and Chile; the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, California; and the Department of Embryology in Baltimore, Maryland.