1989-
Cambridge
USA
Edgerton Lecture Hali
MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
The
Official Awarding Ceremony took place at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among
the many pioneering contributions to biochemistry done by Dr.
Martin Kamen, winner of the “Albert Einstein”
World Award of Science, the best known is his 1940 discovery,
in collaboration with S. Ruben at the Radiation Laboratory of
the University of California at Berkeley, of the Long-lived radioactive
carbon isotope 14C. The availability of this isotope, and its
use as a tracer was one of the most important single factors in
the development of the field of molecular biology.
The
World Cultural Council presented by first time the “Leonardo
da Vinci” World
Award of Arts and it is granted on its first edition to the
Acropolis Preservation Group,
recognising a concerted effort that began 25 years ago by the
Greek government to
conserve the monuments on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, after
they were found to be
beset by fractures and breaks and changes in the surface of the
marble.
