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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; 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.