This exhibition celebrates Christian Anfinsen's legacy by illuminating just a few of his contributions to science and society.How are proteins made? How do they fold and what role does structure play in their function? Chris Anfinsen's investigations answered these questions; they also led to a Nobel Prize.

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To Potter, science was driven by curiosity, not competition, and the only goal was to answer questions about the nature of lifeMichael Potter investigated the twin questions of what causes cancer and how we produce the antibodies called immunoglobulins which protect us from disease.

This exhibit explores Explore the Nobel Prize - winning work of NHLBI's Marshall Nirenberg, who deciphered the genetic code in the early 1960s with the collaboration help of his NIH colleagues, enabling genetics to become a central scientific field.

NIH's first supercomputer, the Cray X-MP/22, was the world's fastest supercomputer from 1983-1986, and the first one devoted solely to biomedical research. Both the physical and virtual exhibits are under development, but you can still see the Cray at its exhibit site located in Building 50.

This All sorts of viruses were visualized for the first time on this Siemens 1-A Electron Microscope was used for over three decades by Dr. Albert Kapikian, NIAID. The instrument was used to detect and characterize various viruses.

This exhibition describes the The Varian A-60 NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectrometer was the first low-cost instrument of its kind, producing a magnetic resonance image (MRI) that NIH scientists used to study topics such as how the brain develops as children grow.