The Book of the Jacob Wendell Scholars

1925 COMMEMORATIVE BOOK HONORING HARVARD COLLEGE--COPY OF FORMER PRIZE RECIPIENT WHO BECAME NOTED MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, burgundy cloth binding, gilt title anc Harvard seal to cover, gilt title to spine, signature of Jeffries Wyman Jr./ London 1925 (Oct) to front free endpaper, [xii], 90 pp, engravings of Jacob and Barrett Wendell, statement that 150 copies were printed by D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, Boston, July 1925. Sunning to cover and spine, 1/4 inch spot back cover, otherwise very good. Laid in: TLS from William G. Wendell (1888-1968) to Jeffries Wyman Jr (1901-1995), and Keepsake from the Author printed poem delivered at Jacob Wendell Scholars Dinner 1947. The Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize, which was established in 1899 by bequest of Jacob Wendell, is awarded annually to a Harvard College sophomore identified by the selection committee as the most promising and broad-ranging scholar in his or her class, without reference to financial need. The prize is awarded on the basis of the first-year academic record, a piece of written work, and letters of recommendation. JEFFRIES WYMAN JR, the 22nd recipient of the prize (1923), was an American molecular biologist and biophysicist notable for his research of proteins, amino acids, and on the physical chemistry of hemoglobin. Wyman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first scientific advisor to the US Embassy in Paris, director of a regional science office in the Middle East for UNESCO, a founder and past secretary general of the European Molecular Biology Organization, and professor of biology at Harvard.

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Publisher: D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press

Year: 1925

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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