Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal The Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal, also known as the "Pearl Harbor Survivor’s Medal", is a bronze commemorative medal which was established by the United States Congress on November 5, 1990 (P.L. 101-510, 104 Stat. 1721). To have been eligible for the award, "a person must have been a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and who participated in combat operations that day against Imperial Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. A person who was killed or wounded in that attack shall be deemed to have
Laurence Pearl active political involvement at present. He is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. He was part of the Birkbeck College team in 1984 which scored the second highest score in the history of University Challenge, 430, against Exeter College, Oxford. They were subsequently beaten in the semi-finals. He is married to Bioinformatics researcher Frances Pearl with whom he has three children. He is an enthusiastic paddler and rower of canoes and small boats on the River Ouse, Sussex. Laurence Pearl Laurence Harris Pearl FRS FMedSci (born 18 June 1956) is a British biochemist and structural biologist who is