Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michal Lipson
The nom is incorrect in characterizing the NSF CAREER award as a student award. The CAREER award is in fact for academics who are are past their PhD and postdoctoral stages and who have already regular faculty appointments but are still in the relatively early stages of their academic careers and who have shown exceptional promise. See http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262. CAREER grants are considerably harder to obtain than regular individual NSF grants and they do carry more prestige than the latter. A portion of the CAREER grants recepients are chosen annually for PECASE|Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers  that are awarded by the President of the United States. I would not say that a CAREER award is sufficient to satisfy criterion 2 of  but it certainly is a valid contributing factor for satisfying criterion 1 of 
— User:Nsk92, 19:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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