Nobel Prizes - 1988 Symposium

 

A Nobel Laureates Symposium was held on June 30, 1988 during the annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.  Donald Voet was the Local Chairman for the ACA, Linus Pauling was Session Chairman, and Oliver Franklin was the Chief of Protocol, City of Philadelphia.  Below are eight videos from the session.

 

1988 Nobel Laureates Symposium speakers
Left to right: Herbert A. Hauptman, Linus Pauling, Sir John Kendrew, 
William N. Lipscomb, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Jerome Karle. 
(Photographer unknown) 
 

  



Donald Voet
 & Oliver Franklin, "Introductions to the 1988 Nobel Laureates Symposium"

Donald Voet, "Introduction to Linus Pauling"




Linus Pauling, "Opening Remarks: Comments on the So-Called Icosahedral Quasicrystals"

Linus Pauling (1901-1994)  was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

 


Sir John Kendrew, "Protein Crystallography in the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1950's"

Sir John Kendrew (1917-1997) shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Max Perutz.




Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, "On Continuing the X-ray Analysis of Insulin"

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

 


William N. Lipscomb, "Activity and Regulation in Aspartate Transcarbamylase"

William N. Lipscomb (1919-2011) was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

 


Herbert A. Hauptman, "A Minimal Principle and Its Role in Direct Methods"

Herbert A. Hauptman (1917-2011) shared the 1985 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Jerome Karle.

 


Jerome Karle, "Exact, Linear Anomalous Dispersion Analysis for Macromolecules"

Jerome Karle (1918-2013) shared the 1985 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Herbert H. Hauptman.

 

 


Linus Pauling, "Concluding Remarks:  How Crystallography Has Changed"

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.