Two Win NY Academy of Sciences Award

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y., June 21 -- The New York Academy of Sciences said that Jerome Swartz, chairman, chief scientist and co-founder of Symbol Technologies Inc., and Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate and past president of Rockefeller University and Pfizer Inc., have been selected to receive the inaugural Eureka Awards for "groundbreaking achievements and service to society." Swartz is credited with more than 150 US patents, including those for the hand-held bar code laser scanner and the laser scanner/wireless LAN-integrated mobile computer.