In partnership with the Association of American Universities, PPI is pleased to announce the first recipient of the 2013 Golden Goose Award is the late Wallace H. Coulter. Coulter invented the Coulter® Counter™, which is the standard technology used in blood testing.
As explained in the press release:
“The first Golden Goose Award of 2013 will be awarded to the late Wallace H. Coulter, a researcher and inventor who some fifty years ago turned research on paint for the Navy into the Coulter® Counter™, which remains today a standard machine for counting blood cells rapidly and efficiently. Coulter developed the technology for his invention while working on a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to improve the paint used on Navy ships.”
The Golden Goose Award was established in 2012 to recognize important scientific discoveries resulting from federally-funded research.
Read the entire release here.
