Capital Reward for Scientist Whose Ethics Are in His Dna

The ScotsmanMarch 14, 2009

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Jon Beckwith is to be awarded the Edinburgh Medal for his humanistic touch, writes Peter Ranscombe

WHEN we picture a scientist, it's hard to get past the image of a grey-haired man with a beard standing at a bench in a laboratory.

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Capital Reward for Scientist Whose Ethics Are in His Dna

But Jon Beckwith , the American Cancer Society professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School, could be equally at home leading a protest march or arguing his case in a lecture theatre or television studio as carrying out scientific research.

In 1969, Profess...

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