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...winners of the Ledlie prize-which is given every two years to the Harvard faculty member who makes "the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind"- are Walter Gilbert '53, professor of Bio-physics, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...
...repressor molecules" that Gilbert and Ptashne studied are proteins that stimulate a few of the genes in each living cell and repress the other genes. Since each cell needs only a few of its thousands of genes to be functioning at any one time, the repressors are neces- sary to turn some of the genes on and keep the rest switched...
Scientists had speculated for several years that cells must contain some repressor system, but ptashne and Gilbert were the first to show the existence of the actual protein structures. They conducted separate studies--Gilbert concentrating on bacteris, Ptashne working on viruses- and reported their results...
...ignored, curiously, the one element of black culture where the record of black accomplishment is not only glorious but also widely recognized and widely acclaimed: music. It is, moreover, the one area where black culture has proved both irresistibly attractive and easily accessible to whites. "Jazz," writes Gilbert Chase, "may be regarded as our most original and far-reaching contribution to the world's music...
...Committee also announced the Overseers' election of Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe, to the Committee and the appointment of Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, as a consultant. Kaysen was formerly a professor of Economics at Harvard and an assistant to President Kennedy for national security affairs...