Acceptance remarks

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor award.

Thank you, John, for your very gracious introductory remarks. I'm rather surprised by what you've been able to extract from sources I once thought to be loyal. Dr. Podos, officers and members of the Association, ladies and gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful to the Trustees of ARVO for having invited me to deliver the Proctor Lecture. It is a great privilege to honor the memory of Dr. Francis P...

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award, June, 1957.

Remarks Made on Acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award.

.0 say that I deeply appreciate the honor you have bestowed upon me would be a very true but also very incomplete statement of my feelings. Even though you have given me ten months to grow into the position of the recipient of the Proctor award, I still have serious misgivings about my qualifications. I am being haunted by a quotation from an early English comedy by George Chapman, which goes a...

Remarks on the Acceptance of the Friedenwald Memorial Award (jonas Friedenwald).

ust as Jonas Friedenwald, even before his distressingly early death, became a legendary figure in American ophthalmology—exemplifying the best possible blend of experienced clinician, gifted scientist, original thinker, inventive genius, stimulating teacher, and the gentle friend of many—so this award that bears his name has already achieved a unique place among the many coveted honors that are...

Remarks made on acceptance of the Proctor Medal award, June 27, 1961.

should like to express my deep gratitude to the Proctor Medal Committee for making me the recipient of the Proctor Medal for the year 1965. I consider it a great honor, and I am particularly gratified because I receive it being not an ophthalmologist, but a biochemist who was carrying on basic research in biochemistry using the eye as a model for certain properties of living systems which were ...