NIH 1998 Almanac/Lectures and Nobel Laureates/
The NIH Lectures
The NIH Lecture series was established to facilitate interchange of information and to give appropriate recognition for outstanding scientific accomplishment. Since January 1953, the various institutes and the Office of the Director have sponsored lectures. The series has been planned to recur each year, with the lectures published and distributed to scientific libraries, universities, medical schools, and other appropriate depositories. Lectures are open to the scientific staff at NIH and at other medical, teaching, and research institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. As part of the NIH Lecture series, an annual G. Burroughs Mider Lectureship Award was established in 1968 in honor of the first NIH director of laboratories and clinics, to be presented by a member of the NIH intramural staff in "recognition and appreciation of outstanding contributions to biomedical research." An asterisk (*) indicates a Mider Lecture. The following lectures have been given.
| Date |
Title |
Presenter |
January 21, 1953
| "Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle: Enzymatic Mecha- nisms"
|
Severo Ochoa |
September 24, 1953
| "Enzymatic Analysis of the Structure of Starch and Glycogen"
|
Carl F. Cori
| September 30, 1954
| "The Natural History of Changing One"s Job"
|
Alan Gregg |
December 16, 1954
| "Avirulent Strains of Poliomyelitis Virus-- Segregation, Characterization, Role in Nature, and Potential Usefulness for Human Immunization"
|
Albert B. Sabin |
May 31, 1955
| "Some Recent Developments Concerning the Chemical Transmission of Nervous Effects"
|
Sir Henry Hallett Dale |
May 1, 1957
| "The Nature of Molecular Disease"
|
Linus Pauling |
January 22, 1958
| "Relation of Physical Science to Life Science: Communication Theory"
|
W. O. Baker |
May 14, 1958
| "Bioenergetics"
|
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi |
October 7, 1958
| "The Energy Exchanges Involved in Muscular Contraction and Nerve Conduction"
|
Archibald Vivian Hill |
May 5, 1959
| "The Biochemical Evolution of Vision"
|
George Wald |
October 13, 1959
| "Biosynthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)"
|
Arthur Kornberg |
February 9, 1960
| "Biosythesis in Human Cell Cultures"
|
Harry Eagle |
April 26, 1960
| "From Fish to Philosopher"
|
Homer W. Smith |
May 18, 1960
| "The Biologist Examines the Mind and Behavior"
|
Seymour S. Kety |
October 4, 1960
| "Conscious Experience--What the Brain Records and Where"
|
Wilder Penfield |
December 14, 1960
| "An Enzymatic Approach to Nucleic Acid Chemistry"
|
Leon A. Heppel |
January 25, 1961
| "Inquiries Concerning the Fine Structure of Protein Molecules"
|
John T. Edsall |
March 15, 1961
| "Viruses, Common Colds and Cancer"
|
Robert J. Huebner |
November 15, 1961
| "Endocrine Aspects of the Cancer Problem"
|
Roy Hertz |
February 28, 1962
|
"Relationship Between Structure and Host Reactive Properties of Microorganisms"
|
Edgar Ribi |
April 25, 1962
| "Photosynthesis"
|
Melvin Calvin |
October 17, 1962
| "Status of Transuranium Elements"
|
Glenn T. Seaborg |
December 12, 1962
|
"Intercellular Infection and the Carrier State"
|
Joseph E. Smadel |
February 27, 1963
| "The History and Natural History of Gout"
|
DeWitt Stetten, Jr. |
September 5, 1963
| "Cardiovascular Surgery--Past and Present""
|
Alfred Blalock |
December 4, 1963
| "On the Nature of the RNA Code"
|
Marshall W. Nirenberg |
February 5, 1964
| "Studies in the Sociology of Science"
|
Robert E. Merton |
February 19, 1964
| "Controlling Elements and Regulatory Circuits in Cellular Metabolism"
|
Jacques Monod |
October 20, 1964
| "Some Biological Implications of Protein Structure"
|
Christian B. Anfinsen |
December 15, 1964
| "Research in Education"
|
Jerome Wiesner |
January 13, 1965
| "Giant Nerve Fibres"
|
Alan L. Hodgkin |
October 20, 1965
| "Tissue Remodeling Mechanisms in Amphibian Metamorphosis"
|
Jerome Gross |
December 8, 1965
| "Tissue Transplantation: Past, Present and Future"
|
Rupert E. Billingham |
February 9, 1966
| "Quantitative Measures of Size and Significance and Relatedness of Scientific Literature"
|
Derek de Solla Price |
November 2, 1966
| "The Cellular Regulation of Branched Biosynthetic Pathways"
|
Earl R. Stadtman |
December 7, 1966
| "The Natural History of Some Small Brains"
|
Caryl Parker Haskins |
February 8, 1967
| "Recent Studies on Microsomes"
|
George E. Palade |
October 25, 1967
| "The Pineal Gland, a Biological Clock"
Julius Axelrod |
December 13, 1967
| "Developmental Biology: The Richness of New Opportunity"
|
James D. Ebert |
February 21, 1968
| "Operant Conditioning and the Management of Human Behavior"
|
Burrhus F. Skinner |
October 30, 1968
| "On the Synthesis and Functions of Glutamine and Asparigine"
|
Alton Meister |
December 11, 1968*
| "Control of Gene Activity in Higher Organisms"
|
Gordon M. Tomkins |
February 12, 1969
"The Role of Mathematical Models in Sciences"
|
Mark Kac |
March 11, 1970*
| "Tumor Antigens: Their Origins, Characteristics and Significance"
|
Lloyd W. Law |
April 22, 1970
| "Genetic Dissection of Visual Behavior in Drosophila"
|
Seymour Benzer |
October 21, 1970
| "Viewing Living Synapses and Exploration of the Chemosensitivity of the Neuronal Surface"
|
Stephen William Kuffler |
Decembe 2, 1970
| "Fructose Diphosphatase and the Control of Gluconegenesis"
|
Bernard L. Horecker |
December 16, 1970*
| "Genetic Mismanagement of Complex Lipids"
|
Roscoe O. Brady |
October 7, 1971
| "The Analysis of Malignancy by Cell Fusion"
|
Henry Harris |
January 19, 1972
| "The Replication of Single-Stranded DNA Bacteriophages: Facts and Riddles"
|
Robert L. Sinsheimer |
February 9, 1972*
| "Survival Mechanisms of the Triune Brain: Some Hopeful Aspects"
|
Paul D. MacLean |
March 15, 1972
| "Science and Trans-Science"
|
Alvin M. Weinberg |
October 25, 1972
| "Tensile Water"
|
Per F. Scholander |
November 8, 1972
| "Behavior of Chimpanzees and Their Natural Habitat"
|
Jane Goodall |
March 14, 1973*
| "Genetic Factors in the Transmission and Expression of Murine Leukemia Virus"
|
Wallace P. Rowe |
April 11, 1973
| "The Hormones of the Hypothalamus"
|
Roger Guillemin |
October 17, 1973
| "The Changing Significance of Territoriality in Human Societies"
|
Margaret Mead |
November 7, 1973*
| "Cyclic AMP and the Transformation of Cells"
|
Ira H. Pastan |
December 12, 1973
| "Probing Into Immunological Phenomena: From Molecule to Cell"
|
Michael Sela |
March 20, 1974
| "Some Phases of Oxidative Hydroxylation of Steroids in the Animal Organism"
|
Percy Julian |
April 24, 1974
| "The Prostaglandins-Bioregulators With Clinical Implications"
|
Sune Bergström |
October 9, 1974*
| "Inherited Lysosomal Disorders Studied in Cell Culture"
|
Elizabeth Neufeld |
March 26, 1975
| "Ion Transport in Reconstituted Systems and in Cancer Cells"
|
Efraim Racker |
April 9, 1975
| "Visual Deprivation and Its Effects on the Monkey Striate Cortex"
|
Torsten N. Wiesel |
September 10, 1975*
| "Collagen: Its Chemistry, Structure, and Function"
|
Karl A. Piez |
November 17, 1976
| "Dissections and Reconstruction of the SV40 Genome"
|
Paul Berg |
December 8, 1976
| "Cell Surface Modulation"
|
Gerald Edelman |
March 2, 1977
| "Early Man"
|
Mary Leakey |
May 18, 1977*
| "Monkey Business: Sequences in the Monkey Genome and Their Interaction With Simian Virus 40 DNA"
|
Maxine F. Singer |
November 2, 1977*
| "A Close and Surprising Look at the Mammalian Genome"
|
Philip Leder |
March 29, 1978
| "Cellular Insights Into Behavior and Learning"
|
Eric Kandel |
May 10, 1978
| "Total Synthesis of a Biologically Functional Gene"
|
Har Gobind Khorana |
September 13, 1978*
| "Receptor Disorders in Man"
|
Jesse Roth |
December 6, 1978
| "Turning Cancer Cells Into Mice"
|
Beatrice Mintz |
May 2, 1979
| "Gene Amplication and Methotrexate Resistance in Cultured Mammalian Cells"
|
Robert T. Schimke |
June 13, 1979
| "In Rodin"s Studio"
|
Albert Elsen |
September 12, 1979
| "Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and the Brain"
|
Solomon H. Snyder |
October 17, 1979*
| "Regulation of Cyclic Nucleotide Metabolism"
|
Martha Vaughan |
November 28, 1979
| "The Structure and Evolution of Genes"
|
Walter Gilbert |
February 27, 1980*
| "The Control of the Immune Response: Regla- tory Cellular Interactions and the Control of Lymphocyte Differentiation"
|
Thomas Waldmann |
May 7, 1980
| "Hepatitis B Virus and the Pathogenesis and Prevention of Cancer of the Liver"
|
Baruch S. Blumberg |
October 1, 1980
| "Mutational Analysis of a Viral Replicon"
|
Daniel Nathans |
December 10, 1980*
| "Metabolic Mapping of Local Functional Activity in the Central Nervous System"
|
Louis Sokoloff |
May 27, 1981
| "The Current Status of the Hepatic Membrane Receptor for Desialylated Serum Glycoproteins"
|
Gilbert Ashwell |
December 2, 1981
| "Cell Surface Receptors for Plasma Lipoproteins: Implications for Biology and Medicine"
|
Joseph L. Goldstein |
September 15, 1982*
| "Living With Lymphocytes, or B Lymphocytes and How They Grow"
|
William E. Paul |
October 27, 1982
| "Information Processing in a Simple Sensory System: Bacterial Chemotaxis"
|
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. |
November 17, 1982
| "Autoantibodies as Probes for Small Ribonucle- oproteins From Eukaryotes"
|
Joan A. Steitz |
January 25, 1984
| "Charge Distribution, Electrostatic Fields, and Enzyme Function"
|
Frederic M. Richards |
March 21, 1984
| "Cancer Genes Come of Age"
|
J. Michael Bishop |
April 18, 1984*
| "Movement, Mood and Memory: Linked Functions in the Mammalian Brain"
|
Edward V. Evarts |
September 12, 1984*
| "Enhancers: Regulatory Elements in Eukaryotic Gene Expression"
|
George Khoury |
November 7, 1984
| "Neuronal Replacement in Adulthood and Its Possible Relation to Learning"
|
Fernando Nottebohm |
November 28, 1984
| "Gene Expression in Developing and Adult Neurons"
|
Richard Axel |
December 5, 1984
| "Managing the Deficit"
|
Alice Rivlin |
December 12, 1984
| "Twenty Years A" Growing"
|
S. Dillon Ripley |
December 4, 1985*
| "Biochemical Regulation of Actinomycin- Dependent Cell Motility"
|
Edward D. Korn |
March 5, 1986*
| "Why Is DNA Supercoiled?"
|
Martin Gellert |
May 19, 1986
| "Misplacing Genes"
|
Philip Leder |
June 4, 1986
| "Insights into the Genetics of Thalassemia"
|
Yuet Wai Kan |
January 14, 1987
| "Vaccinia Virus: From Jenner to Genetic Engineering"
|
Bernard Moss |
February 11, 1987*
| "Molecular Embryology: New Approaches to Old Questions"
|
Igor B. Dawid |
May 6, 1987
| "Tracking the Causes of Diabetes Mellitus: From Viruses to Autoimmunity"
|
Abner Louis Notkins |
September 23, 1987
| "Inositol Lipids and Intracellular Communica tion"
|
Michael J. Berridge |
June 22, 1988*
| "Basement Membranes: Key Determinants of Differentiation and Their Role in Cancer Metastasis"
|
George Martin |
November 2, 1988
| "RNA as an Enzyme"
|
Thomas Cech |
November 15, 1989*
| "Switching Globin Genes On and Off: Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression"
|
Gary Felsenfeld |
November 14, 1990
| "Dystrophin Abnormalities in Neuromuscular Disease"
|
Louis M, Kunkel |
January 16, 1991*
| "Memory Circuits"
|
Mortimer Mishkin |
February 13, 1991
| "Mechanisms of Short-term and Long-term Memory"
|
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. |
April 3, 1991*
| "Gene Sharing: Lens Crystallins, Enzymes, and Stress Proteins"
|
Joram Piatigorsky |
May 23, 1991
| "Molecular Genetics of Cancer Suppression"
|
Wen-Hwa Lee |
June 13, 1991
| "The Adrenergic Receptors"
|
Robert J. Lefkowitz |
November 19, 1991
| "Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Biological and Clinical Potentials"
|
Irving L. Weissman |
January 22, 1992
| "Molecular Analysis of Resistance to Anti- Cancer Drugs"
|
Michael M. Gottesman |
March 25, 1992*
| "Human Gene Therapy"
|
W. French Anderson, R. Michael Blaese, Steven A. Rosenberg |
May 6, 1992
| "Splicing of Nuclear Precursors to Messenger RNAs"
|
Phillip A. Sharp |
May 21, 1992
| "Creating Mice With Targetted Disruptions in Proto-oncogenes and Homeobox Genes"
|
Mario R. Capecchi |
June 1, 1994
| " Genetics of Breast Cancer "
|
Mary-Claire King |
June 8, 1994
| " The Health of the Spirit"
|
Jane Alexander |
January 18, 1995*
| " Brain Maps for Eye Movements"
|
Robert H. Wurtz |
May 17, 1995
| " Brain Waves and Brain Wiring"
|
Carla J. Schatz |
April 25, 1995
| "To See Ourselves as Others See Us: The Artist
Looks at the Doctor"
|
Sherwin B. Nuland |
May 24, 1995
| "Alterinf Telomerase RNA: Enzymatic and
Cellular Consequences"
|
Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
November 1, 1995*
| "DNA Replication Fidelity, Mismatch Repair, and
Genome Stability"
|
Thomas A. Kunkel |
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