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| Nobel Prize Winners Watson and Kandel at 92nd Street Y (10.2.07) |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Sarah Morton, 212.415.5435, email |
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| JAMES WATSON AND ERIC KANDEL — TWO NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS SHARE 92ND STREET Y STAGE |
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| Discoverer of DNA's Double Helix Discusses His New Book with Fellow Scientist |
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Tuesday, October 2, 8:00 PM
92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street)
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| New York, NY, September, 25, 2007—On Tuesday, October 2, at 8:00 PM, two of the most respected scientists of the 20th century share ideas and insights with each other and with the audience at the 92nd Street Y. JAMES WATSON and ERIC KANDEL are both Nobel Prize winners with a knack for explaining their discoveries and research to a broad public. In addition to being a chance for Watson to discuss his new book, Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science (Knopf), the evening is a rare opportunity to hear a conversation between two giants of science. |
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James Watson is best known for discovering, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the double helix structure of DNA. The three won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this groundbreaking work. Watson later became the head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, and was the second person to publish his own genome sequence. He is now the Chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Sometimes controversial, always lively, Watson became a bestselling author when he published The Double Helix in 1968. His new book is more than a memoir; it offers advice to budding scientists and anyone else starting out in a competitive, demanding career.
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| Eric Kandel shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the molecular biology of memory storage in neurons. A professor at Columbia University and a senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kandel is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. |
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| For credentials and more information, contact SARAH MORTON at the 92nd Street Y 212.415.5435, smorton@92Y.org |
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 7,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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