Visiting Lectures by Nobel Laureates: Science and the Creative Process
ISLAT is committed to sponsoring the visits of notable scholars
to the campus. On September 23, 1998. ISLAT sponsored a
lecture by Nobel Laureate biochemist Dr. Kary Mullis, whose invention
of the polymerase chain reaction revolutionized the study of DNA
and genetics. At a standing-room-only lecture, Mullis discussed
his controversial views about the practice of science today in
the context of his autobiography, Dancing
Naked in the Mind Field.
In April 1999, ISLAT sponsored the visit of Nobel
Laureate James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, who received
the Heald
Award from IIT. James Watson met with small groups of
students and gave an inspirational and well-attended public lecture
describing his scientific quest to unravel the mysteries of DNA.
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