Photograph
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): 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. Standing (L-R): chemist from Cornell University, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye; rheumatologist with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip S. Hench; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; physicist from Fordham University, Dr. Victor F. Hess; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Owen Chamberlain (very back); Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Kornberg; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg; physicist from the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Carl D. Anderson; physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Edward L. Tatum; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Felix Bloch (very back, mostly hidden); Head of the Department of Tropical Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas H. Weller; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Edward A. Doisy (very back, partially hidden); Director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; biochemist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Carl F. Cori; geneticist from the University of Indiana, Dr. Hermann J. Muller; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Willard F. Libby; Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Dr. John F. Enders; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Severo Ochoa (very back, mostly hidden); Director of the Virus Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; Director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Edwin M. McMillan (very back, mostly hidden); physicist from Columbia University, Dr. Polykarp Kusch; and physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.