Impressive manuscript DS as president, one page, 14.5 x 18.5, 1965. Fantastic hand-illuminated presentation certificate for the National Medal of Science, featuring a raised foil image of the medal at the top, in full: "The National Medal of Science is awarded by the president of the United States of America to William Walden Rubey for showing profoundly original observations and clear physical reasoning how sand grains and mountains move and from whence the oceans came." Mounted and matted to an overall size of 20 x 24. In fine condition, with light edge toning.A noted geologist, Rubey served as a scientific liaison to the US Army for the Geological Survey during WWII; as president of the the Geological Society of America in 1950; and as chairman of the National Research Council for the National Academy of Sciences from 1951–1954. After retiring from the US Geological Survey, he joined the Lunar Science Institute in 1968, serving as director from 1968 to 1971, in which position he participated in the scientific examination of lunar samples returned by the Apollo program.Format: DS