Gallery 33: Jacques Monod, Peter Lengyel, Walter Gibert and Luigi Gorini, 1966

(L-R) Jacques Monod, Peter Lengyel, Walter Gibert, Luigi Gorini at a Cold Spring Harbor Meeting, 1966.

Jacques Monod , Peter Lengyel, Walter Gibert ,Luigi Gorini, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting

(L-R) Jacques Monod, Peter Lengyel, Walter Gibert, Luigi Gorini discussing ideas at a Cold Spring Harbor Meeting, 1966.

Barbara McClintock (L) and Jacques Monod (R) at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting, 1946.

A meeting of minds at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1986. The figures on the blackboard show an estimate of the cost of sequencing the human genome.

Aaron Klug at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting.

Aaron Klug at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting.

Sydney Brenner at a 1980 Cold Spring Harbor meeting.

François Jacob, Cold Spring Harbor, 1953 meeting. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.

Fred Sanger at a 1949 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium meeting.

François Jacob at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting, 1953.

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