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Forwarded to STHC-L from ALHHS-L. --RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greenberg, Stephen (NIH/NLM) [E]" [greenbes@mail.nlm.nih.gov] Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:23 am Subject: [CADUCEUS-L:3325] "Joshua Lederberg - A Life in Science," a talk by Dr. Alexa T. McCray at NLM To: h-sci-med-tech@h-net.msu.edu, caduceus-l@list.umaryland.edu, MEDLIB- L@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, "Private list for Archivists and Librarians in the History of theHealth Sciences (ALHHS)" [alhhs-l@lists.upstate.edu] "Joshua Lederberg - A Life in Science," a talk by Dr. Alexa T. McCray at NLM Dr. Alexa T. McCray will offer a talk entitled "Joshua Lederberg-A Life in Science" on April 18, 2006 from 2:00–3:15 p.m. in the Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A (first floor). This event celebrates the opening of the Joshua Lederberg Papers and the completion of the Joshua Lederberg Profiles in Science(R) Web site (http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/). For more information, please contact Meghan Attalla at 301-496-8949 or attallm@mail.nih.gov. Dr. McCray is Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School, former Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, and former Project Director of Profiles in Science. As an elementary school student, Joshua Lederberg already had scientific aspirations. While other children may have looked to sports or entertainment figures as their idols, Lederberg’s idol was Albert Einstein. His most treasured gift at his coming of age ceremony (Bar Mitzvah) was a chemistry textbook, and as a young teenager, he read, for him a pivotal book, Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunters. Joshua Lederberg not only conducted Nobel Prize winning research (for his work on bacterial genetics), but he also took seriously his responsibility as an educated citizen. For many years he wrote a column in the Washington Post that took on the scientific issues of the day and made them accessible to the public, and today he continues to be an ardent proponent of open access to scientific information. His insatiable appetite for scientific knowledge has taken him on by- roads to artificial intelligence, exobiology, and, more recently, biotechnology. The National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science web site makes the papers of this prolific and public-minded scientist available for all to use. This talk will explore some of those materials, illustrating Joshua Lederberg’s legacy to science and humanity. Sign language interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact Meghan Attalla, History of Medicine Division, 301- 496-8949, Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339, attallm@mail.nih.gov. Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NIH Visitors and Security website at: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm -------------------------------------- Meghan Attalla Contract Digital Archivist Digital Manuscripts Program History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 38/B2E-21 Bethesda, MD 20894 Phone: 301-496-8949 Fax: 301-402-7034 attallm@mail.nih.gov Profiles in Science http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2006 Message Index |