The collections are divided into three categories: Biomedical Research, Health & Medicine, and Fostering Science & Health. The Biomedical Research collections include materials related to the study of biological processes at the most basic molecular level. The Health & Medicine collections focus on the application of scientific discoveries to improve medical treatments and public health. The Fostering Science & Health collections provide insight into the role politicians, philanthropists, the media and others play in biomedical research and public health.

Each digital collection on the Profiles site consists of two major parts. The first part is an exhibit composed of introductory narratives on the scientist's life and work and a selection of noteworthy documents (text, audiotapes, video clips and photographs). The exhibit is particularly designed for students and those with little background in science. The second part consists of additional documents from the scientist's papers, available through a search engine and in alphabetical and chronological "views." In addition, for the Joshua Lederberg collection, the donor has provided commentary in the form of annotations to individual documents.

The collections are particularly strong in the areas of cellular biology, genetics, and biochemistry, but also reflect issues in such areas as health and medical research policy, the application of computers in medicine, science education, and the search for extraterrestrial life.

Featuring: The Albert Szent-Gyorgyi* Papers

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Albert Imre Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), a Hungarian-born biochemist, was the first to isolate vitamin C, and his research on biological oxidation provided the basis for Krebs' citric acid cycle. His discoveries about the biochemical nature of muscular contraction revolutionized the field of muscle research... He was especially interested in cancer, and was one of the first to explore the connections between free radicals and cancer. Szent-Gyorgyi won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in biological oxidation and vitamin C, and the Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research in 1954, for contributions to understanding cardiovascular disease through basic muscle research.

In the great struggle between ignorance, distrust and brutality on one side, knowledge, understanding and peace on the other the scientist must stand fearlessly on the side of the latter, strengthening link between man and man and preaching that the only effective weapon of self-defence is good-will to others.

From Szent-Györgyi's 1937 Nobel banquet speech. That is something the ID folk should read a few hundred times.

Thanks matteo -- I actually came across this site earlier today but got sidetracked elsewhere with some Benedictine odds & sods, so I didn't get a chance to have a look.