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Walter Gilbert je americký fyzik, biochemik, podnikateľ a priekopník molekulárnej biológie.

Študoval v Sidwell Friends School, na Harvard University a University of Cambridge. Spoločne s Allanom Maxamom objavili novú metódu radenia DNA.V roku 1980 získal Nobelovu cenu za chémiu spolu s Frederickom Sangerom za priekopnícku prácu v metodike sekvenovania, teda určovania poradia nukleotidov v nukleovej kyseline.Koncom roku 1980 spochybnil úlohu HIV v AIDS.

V súčasnosti je predsedom správnej rady Harvard Society Fellows. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. marec 1932
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“The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.”

Meditel (1990)
Kontext: The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. If you simply have a consensus, it generally stultifies. It fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. This is in fact one of the underpinnings of democratic theory. It is one of the reasons why we believe in notions of free speech and it's one of the great forces in terms of intellectual development.

“I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's.”

Personal communication (4 April 2006) quoted in "Well, someone has to do it" at Moment of Science (July 2006) http://momentofscience.blogspot.com/2006/07/well-someone-has-to-do-it.html
Kontext: I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument