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► • • • e • • • • 0 • • A NIGHT WITH NOBELS ART, SCIENCE & HISTORY Committee Sven Becker, Head Books & Manuscripts, Christie's Deeda Blair, Director Emeritus Albert & Mary Lasker Foundation Philip Goelet, Ph.D., Scientist, Entrepreneur, Investor Please be our guests Jack Meyers, President Rockefeller Archive Center Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:30PM — 9:30 PM Cynthia Hazen Polsky & Leon Polsky Sir Richard J. Roberts, Ph.D., Nobel laureate Christie's Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs 20 Rockefeller Plaza Marilyn Simons, Ph.D., President at 49th Street v Simons Foundation; Vice-Chair Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York I Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., President, CEO Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. James D. Watson, Ph.D., Nobel laureate It isthe source of all true art Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and all science." —Albert Einstein MerrITIOn EFTA00457041  CO-HOSTS PROGRAM 6:30 PM Cocktails & Private Viewing Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Christie's Spring Sales offerings and CHRISTIE'S Rare Books and Manuscripts from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives 7:15 PM WELCOME On view from 9:30 AM through the cocktail hour will be CHRISTIE'S spring collection of Impressionist and Modern Art: Sven Becker, Head of Christie's Books & Manuscripts paintings, sculptures and works on paper by the most Bruce Stillman, President, CEO important names in late-19th and early-20th century art. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Encompassing movements such as Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, the sale will be led by works by 7:20 PM Walter Gilbert, Ph.D., Nobel laureate, Carl M. Loeb Picasso, Modigliani, Cezanne, Matisse, Monet and more. University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University AUCTION MAY 15, 7PM THE VIRTUES OF SCIENCE: SKEPTICISM AND INDEPENDENCE OF THOUGHT Also on view will be highlights from COLD SPRING HARBOR 7:40 PM Eric Kandel, M.D., Nobel laureate, Kavli Professor LABORATORY ARCHIVES illuminating major discoveries that & Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Co-Director, changed the worlds of biological and medical research and led Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, to the development of the biotechnology industry: original Columbia University letters from Francis Crick, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin and REDUCTIONISM IN ART AND BRAIN SCIENCE Maurice Wilkins describing their quest for the DNA structure, 1953 Nature journal reprints announcing this momentous 8:00 PM DINNER discovery, and correspondence and artifacts related to other Nobel Prize—winning breakthroughs by Sydney Brenner, Barbara McClintock, Alfred D. Hershey & Herman Muller. R.S.V.P. Diane Fagiola, fagiolaikshLedu EFTA00457042