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Draft of acceptance speech given upon receiving the Gairdner Award

Title:: Draft of acceptance speech given upon receiving the Gairdner Award
Creator:: Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Date:: 1967
Description:: In the draft for his acceptance speech for the award granted by the Gairdner Foundation, a non-profit corporation devoted to the recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of biomedical research, Nirenberg asserts that a driving force behind science "is that the individual strives for truth and [publicly] accepts full responsibility for his work."
Location:: Box: 4. Folder: 3
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.
Genre:: Speeches
Drafts (documents)
Subject:: Awards and Prizes
Format:: Text
Extent:: 2 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: JJBBKG
NLM ID:: 101584910X152
Profiles Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X152
Story Section:: Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968