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George Yancopoulos: Doing Well by Trying to Do Good
His finalist year: 1976
His finalist project: Studying how organisms can regenerate parts of themselves
What led to the project: As a little kid, George Yancopoulos was fascinated by such questions as how lizards can regrow their tails and how the body works. A New York City native whose parents had immigrated from Greece, "the whole reason I went to the Bronx High School of Science is that it had 'science' in the name," he says. He wanted to become a scientist.
He got a good start on that endeavor with his Westinghouse project, which occupied much of his high school career.... [more]
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