Letter from Christian B. Anfinsen, Marshall W. Nirenberg to President of Brazil

Digital Record

Identifier: 101584571X77

Staff Only

Digital Object (text)

Dates

[May 1969?]

Extent

1 Pages

Creator

Anfinsen, Christian B. (Christian Boehmer), 1916-1995 (Creator, Person)

Description

Anfinsen and the 1968 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, Nirenberg, protested the Brazilian government's purging of its renowned scientists Isaias Raw, Alberto Carvalho da Silva, and Helio Lourenco de Oliveira. In this letter to President Artur da Costa e Silva, the two scientists argued for continuity between the scientific exchange of ideas and political freedom.