For release at 10 a.n. Monday, June 8, 1964

TEXT OF HONORARY DEGREE PRESENTATION
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, COMMENCEMENT

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Born at Boulder, Colorado in 1909, Edward Lawrie Tatum, the son of the late
Arthur L. Tatum, professor of pharmacology in this University, received the B.A.
in 1931, the M.S. in 1932, and the Ph.D. in 1934, all from the University of
Wisconsin,

After a fellowship year at the University of Utrecht, Holland, he went to
Stanford University as a research associate in biology from 1937 to 1941, and an
assistant professor from 1942 to 1945. He was an associate professor of botany
at Yale from 1945 to 1946, when he became professor of microbiology. In 1948 he
returned to Stanford as professor of biology, and in 1956, he became professor of
biochemistry and head of that department. In 1957 he joined the Rockefeller
Institute, where he continues his work on the nutrition, biochemistry, and genetics
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In 1958 he received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, with his
Student, Joshua Lederberg, and his former Stanford colleague, George Beadle. The
publications resulting from the studies of these three scientists are recognized
classics and have served as a foundation for the tremendous amount of work that
has since been done in these fields.

Mr. President, on the recommendation of the faculty and by vote of the regents,
I present to you Edward Lawrie Tatum to receive the honorary degree Doctor of
Science.
Conferring of the degree by the President:

Edward Lawrie Tatum, because of your distinguished and original contributions

as a thinker and a research worker in the Fields of microbiology, biochemistry, and
genetics, I am happy to confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

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