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Actor Fredric March (left) performs a reading of excerpts from the works of the late Nobel Prize winners, former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall, and authors, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway, during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of General Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Lecturer in Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Dr. William P. Murphy; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; physicist from Fordham University, Dr. Victor F. Hess; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Edward L. Tatum; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Willard F. Libby; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center) visits with Nobel Prize-winning poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse), at a dinner in honor of Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere; President John F. Kennedy stands at far left. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Severo Ochoa; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; and Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). Also pictured: First Lady’s Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. Seated in front row (L-R): Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; author, John Dos Passos; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; and Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Lionel Trilling; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Lionel Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); and Grete Koht (wife of Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders. Also pictured: Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter; and Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) and poet, Robert Frost, arrive in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Also pictured: author, John Dos Passos; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); composer, Alexei Haieff; Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: United Nations (UN) Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Edward A. Doisy; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); and Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: United Nations (UN) Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Lecturer in Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Dr. William P. Murphy; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Severo Ochoa; and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: United Nations (UN) Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Lecturer in Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Dr. William P. Murphy; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; physicist from Fordham University, Dr. Victor F. Hess; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Edward L. Tatum; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Willard F. Libby; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; Director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Edwin M. McMillan; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); physiologist from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. André F. Cournand; Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Donald A. Glaser; and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: United Nations (UN) Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; physicist from Fordham University, Dr. Victor F. Hess; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett; and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Seated (L-R): physicist from Harvard University, Dr. Georg von Békésy; author, Pearl S. Buck; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Rudolf L. Mössbauer; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); President Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Mrs. Kennedy; and physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter. Also pictured: United Nations (UN) Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; Dr. William B. Shockley, of the Clevite Corporation; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson; biochemist from Princeton University, Dr. Edward C. Kendall; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Lecturer in Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Dr. William P. Murphy; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; physicist from Fordham University, Dr. Victor F. Hess; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque; Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Executive Secretary Emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Dr. Clarence E. Pickett; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Damage across top of image is original to the negative.]