Title:

Preliminary notes for speech given at the Lasker Awards luncheon

Creator:

Nirenberg, Marshall W.

Date:

[ca. 21 November 1968]

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.

Location:

Box: 4. Folder: 10

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.

Genre:

Speeches
Drafts (documents)

Subject:

Genes

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Lasker Lunch Remarks, 1968

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

JJBBKJ

NLM ID:

101584910X154

Profiles Collection:

The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X154

Story Section:

Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968