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PHOTO INSERT
1. Erwin Schrödinger (left) with the Irish President Hyde (in wheelchair) and Prime Minister De Valera (far right), at the official opening of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1943.
2. Norbert Wiener in the 1950s, accompanied by some of his fiendish equations.
3. Oswald Avery at a laboratory party, Christmas 1940.
4. Claude Shannon with paper tape used for programming computers.
5. Harriett Ephrussi-Taylor, Boris Ephrussi and Leo Szilárd at the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.
6. Alfred Mirsky (left) and Masson Gulland in conversation at the 1947 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium. Four months later, Gulland was killed in a train crash south of Berwick.
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