DS9 Document EFTA00457041

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