Royal Society Awards to Edith Heard and Ingrid Daubechies#
Professor Edith Heard and Professor Ingrid Daubechies are recipients of two of the 2024 Royal Society Awards
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Professor Ingrid Daubechies MAE, Duke University, received the Bakerian Medal and Lecture "for her outstanding work on wavelets and image compression and her exceptional contributions to a wide spectrum of physical, technological, and mathematical applications". Prof. Daubechies is a member of the Mathematics section of Academia Europaea since 2015.
Professor Edith Heard MAE FRS, Collège de France, received the Croonian Medal and Lecture "for being a leading figure in X-chromosome biology, including the epigenetic mechanisms behind X-inactivation which are critical for this important part of mammalian biology". Prof. Heard is a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section of Academia Europaea since 2012.
