File:US-NationalMedalOfScience-EO10910.jpg

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Illustration of the National Medal of Science medallion from s:Executive Order 10910, which introduced the design. The design is described there as:

The medal is struck in Bronze 3¼″ over all. Its obverse side has the figure of a man holding a crystal in his left hand as he writes an equation in the sand on which he kneels. Behind him is the sea and there is a star above his shoulder.

Man is portrayed against the background of earth, sea, and heavens.

The inscription of National Medal of Science is around the upper portion of the perimeter of the medal.

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Source Scanned from Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 1959-1963 Comp., p 439.
Author U.S. Government
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