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Carnegie Institution for Science Trustee Emeritus Frank Press Dies
February 01, 2020
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news release:

Carnegie trustee emeritus Frank Press, a National Medal of Science laureate and former president of the National Academy of Sciences, died January 29 at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 95. Press was active on the Carnegie board of trustees for 14 years and was the Cecil and Ida Green Senior Fellow at the institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism from 1993 to 1997.

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