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The 2008 recipient of the Christian Anfinsen Award is Roger D. Kornberg. The 2008 recipient of the Thomas Hunt Morgan award is Andrew Z. Fire. The 2009 recipient of the Thomas Hunt Morgan award is Elizabeth Blackburn.
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Photos of Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan (above) and Dr. Christian Anfinsen (below). |
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Graduate students in the Department of Biology award prestigious Anfinsen or Morgan lectureships to a scientist who exemplifies the traits of either Christian Anfinsen or T.H. Morgan. These awards exist to celebrate the lives and achievements of two scientists whose contributions to science have long outlived them. Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was a graduate student in the Department of Biology between 1886 and 1890. While at Hopkins, Dr. Morgan studied the embryology and phylogeny of sea spiders. However, it was his future work with Drosophila which defined new laws of genetics and earned him the Nobel Prize in 1933 for his work proving that genes are carried on chromosomes. The Morgan lectureship is a distinct honor bestowed upon a current influential scientist in the fields of genetics, developmental and cellular biology, as selected by the graduate students of this department. Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995) was a member of the faculty in the Department of Biology from 1982 to 1995. Dr. Anfinsen was widely recognized for his significant contributions to the understanding of protein synthesis and folding. In 1972, Dr. Anfinsen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery that ribonuclease could spontaneously refold after denaturation and regain its enzymatic activity. His results suggested that the manner in which a protein folds is encoded within its primary amino acid sequence. Beyond his impressive scientific abilities, Dr. Anfinsen is remembered as a generous and kind man who took a keen interest in the success of his students and colleagues. The Anfinsen lectureship is a distinction given in Anfinsen’s honor by the graduate students of the department, bestowed on a current exemplary scientist in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology.
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