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e-mail: pubinfo@rockvax.rockefeller.edu French Nobelist, Author, to Receive 1994 Lewis Thomas Prize from Rockefeller University Dr. Jacob will receive the award from Dr. Torsten Wiesel, the Nobel laureate neurobiologist who is president of The Rockefeller University, and from Richard Furlaud, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jacob will then give a lecture entitled "Biology and Culture." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, May 25 at 5:00 p.m. in Caspary Auditorium at the university's campus on York Avenue and 66th Street. Lewis Thomas, the noted physician, scientist and essayist who died last year, was himself the prize's inspiration and its first recipient in 1993. He was also a member of the Selection Committee that chose Dr. Jacob for 1994. According to the citation, the Lewis Thomas Prize recognizes "the scientist whose voice and vision can tell us of science's aesthetic and philosophical dimensions, who gives us not merely new information but cause for reflection, even revelation, as in a poem or painting." Jacob has also gained world renown as an author of three distinguished books: The Logic of Life , hailed by the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault as "the most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written"; | |
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