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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy stand with Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere at a dinner in their honor. Front row (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: President of the University of Chicago, Dr. George W. Beadle; Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders; 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; and poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.