[Preliminary notes for speech given at the Lasker Awards luncheon]
Description:
Marshall Nirenberg won the Lasker Award for medical research in 1968 for his contributions to deciphering the genetic code. In these handwritten notes for his acceptance speech, Nirenberg asserts the new knowledge in molecular genetics "will have a marked effect" on the "eternal questions of who we are and where we are going," but not immediately as more basic information is needed. He predicts a new area of research in genetic research will emerge in the last part of the twentieth century, including work on molecular evolution and genetic surgery.
Item is handwritten.
Number of Image Pages:
2 (98,872 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
ca. 21 November 1968
Creator:
Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Genes
Exhibit Category:
Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968
Lasker Lunch Remarks (November 21, 1968)