1975

Interview

Interview transcript Dr Baltimore, you have been an active scientist for close to 40 years. How did it all started; how did you get into science? David Baltimore: I got into science really because of my mother. My mother was an experimental psychologist and she arranged, when I was in high school,…

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Banquet speech

Howard M. Temin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Renato Dulbecco, David Baltimore, and I thank you for the great honor you have given to us. This prize is also an honor for our families, for our institutions, and for the citizens of…

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Nobel Prize lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 (Translation) Peace, Progress, Human Rights Honored members of the Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen. Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another: it is impossible to achieve one of these goals if the other two are ignored. This is the dominant idea that…

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Poetry

  The Wall To lie in shadow on the lawn By a crumbling wall, pale and withdrawn And spy in the weeds the gliding snake And hear the rustle blackbirds make – To watch in the cracked earth and the grass Battalions of red ants at drill, That break and form ranks, pass and repass…

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