Through Art And Science In Their Broadest

I And My Colleagues Here Have Been Engaged In The Pursuit Of Knowledge.

In This Atmosphere I Soon Became Interested In Nucleic Acids.

A Dna Sequence For The Genome Of Bacteriophage Φx174 Of Approximately 5,375 Nucleotides Has Been Determined Using The Rapid And Simple 'plus And Minus' Method. The Sequence Identifies Many Of The Features Responsible For The Production Of The Proteins Of The Nine Known Genes Of The Organism, Including Initiation And Termination Sites For The Proteins And Rnas. Two Pairs Of Genes Are Coded By The Same Region Of Dna Using Different Reading Frames.

After Taking My B.a. Degree In 1939 I Remained At The University For A Further Year To Take An Advanced Course In Biochemistry, And Surprised Myself And My Teachers By Obtaining A First Class Examination Result.

When I Was Young My Father Used To Tell Me That The Two Most Worthwhile Pursuits In Life Were The Pursuit Of Truth And Of Beauty And I Believe That Alfred Nobel Must Have Felt Much The Same When He Gave These Prizes For Literature And The Sciences.