8-Nov1989
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.