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Rice University Names Onuchic as Harry C. & Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics
September 03, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release:

Rice University physicist Jose Onuchic has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.

Onuchic, the first Rice faculty member to be named to the academy, is the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics and a professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of biosciences, and co-director of the National Science Foundation-backed Center for Theoretical Biologica . . .

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