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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-29-B
AR19, ST09, KN15
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-5-62
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Grete Koht; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; and Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-21221
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. Seated in front row (L-R): Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-21215
President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric March of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.