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<_Arthur M. Sack/er
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OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Nanoscience: Underlying
Physical Concepts and
Phenomena
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
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Arthur M. Sackler, M.D.
1913-1987
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Arthur M. Sackler was edu-
cated in the arts, sciences, and humanities at New York
University. These interests remained the focus of his life, as he
became widely known as a scientist, art collector, and philan-
thropist, endowing institutions of learning and culture through-
out the world.
He felt that his fundamental role was as a doctor, a vocation
he decided upon at the age of four. After completing his
internship and service as house physician at Lincoln Hospital in
New York City, he became a resident in psychiatry at Creed-
moor State Hospital. There, in the 1940s, he started research
that resulted in more than 150 papers in neuroendocrinology,
psychiatry, and experimental medicine. He considered his
scientific research in the metabolic basis of schizophrenia his
most significant contribution to science and served as editor of the Journal of Clinical and
Experimental Psychobiology from 1950 to 1962. In 1960 he started publication of Medical Tribune,
a weekly medical newspaper that reached over one million readers in 20 countries. He
established the Laboratories for Therapeutic Research in 1938, a facility in New York for basic
research that he directed until 1983.
As a generous benefactor to the causes of medicine and basic science, Arthur Sackler built
and contributed to a wide range of scientific institutions: the Sackler School of Medicine
established in 1972 at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; the Sackler Institute of Graduate
Biomedical Science at New York University, founded in 1980; the Arthur M. Sackler Science
Center dedicated in 1985 at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; and the Sackler School
of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, established in 1980, and the Arthur M. Sackler Center for
Health Communications, established in 1986, both at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.
His pre-eminence in the art world is already legendary. According to his wife Jillian, one of
his favorite relaxations was to visit museums and art galleries and pick out great pieces others
had overlooked. His interest in art is reflected in his philanthropy; he endowed galleries at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University, a museum at Harvard University, and
the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art in Washington, DC. True to his oft-stated
determination to create bridges between peoples, he offered to build a teaching museum in
China, which Jillian made possible after his death, and in 1993 opened the Arthur M. Sackler
Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University in Beijing.
In a world that often sees science and art as two separate cultures, Arthur Sackler saw them
as inextricably related. In a speech given at the State University of New York at Stony Brook,
Some reflections on the arts, sciences and humanities, a year before his death, he observed:
"Communication is, for me, theprimum movens of all culture. In the arts. . . I find the emotional
component most moving. In science, it is the intellectual content. Both are deeply interlinked
in the humanities." The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia at the National Academy of Sciences pay
tribute to this faith in communication as the prime mover of knowledge and culture.
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America
Contents
Papers from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National
Academy of Sciences
PERSPECTIVES
6451 Emulating biology: Building nanostructures from the
bottom up
Nadrian C. Seeman and Angela M. Belcher
6456 Quantum dot artificial solids: Understanding the static
and dynamic role of size and packing disorder
K. C. Beverly, J. L. Sample, J. F. Sampaio, F. Remacle,
J. R. Heath, and R. D. Levine
COLLOQUIUM PAPERS
6460 Segmented nanofibers of spider dragline silk: Atomic
force microscopy and single-molecule force spectroscopy
E. Oroudjev, J. Soares, S. Arcdiacono, J. B. Thompson,
S. A. Fossey, and H. G. Hansma
6466 Molecular dynamics analysis of a buckyball-antibody
complex
William H. Noon, Yifei Kong, and Jianpeng Ma
6471 H3PW~2O40-functionalized tip for scanning
tunneling microscopy
In K. Song, John R. Kitchin, and Mark A. Barteau
6476 Energetics of nanocrystalline TiO2
M. R. Ranade, A. Navrotsky, H. Z. Zhang, J. F. Banfield,
S. H. Elder, A. Zaban, P. H. Borse, S. K. Kulkarni,
G. S. Doran, and H. J. Whitfield
6482 Study of Nd3+, Pd2+, Pt4+, and Fe3+ dopant effect on
photoreactivity of TiO2 nanoparticles
S. I. Shah, W. Li, C.-P. Huang, O. Jung, and C. Ni
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6487 Entropically driven self-assembly of multichannel
rosette nanotubes
Hicham Fenniri, Bo-Liang Deng, Alexander E. Ribbe,
Klaas Hallenga, Jaby Jacob, and Pappannan Thiyagarajan
6493 Combining constitutive materials modeling with atomic
force microscopy to understand the mechanical
properties of living cells
Mike McElfresh, Eveline Baesu, Rod Balhorn, James Belak,
Michael J. Allen, and Robert E. Rudd
6498 Designing supramolecular porphyrin arrays that
self-organize into nanoscale optical and
magnetic materials
Charles Michael Drain, James D. Batteas, George W. Flynn,
Tatjana Milic, Ning Chi, Dalia G. Yablon,
and Heather Sommers
6503 Nanoscale surface chemistry
Theodore E. Madey, Kalman Pelhos, Qifei Wu, Robin Barnes,
Ivan Ermanoski, Wenhua Chen, Jacek J. Kolodziej,
and John E. Rowe
6509 Magnetic nanodots from atomic Fe: Can it be done?
E. te Sligte, R. C. M. Bosch, B. Smeets, P. van der Straten,
H. C. W. Beijerinck, and K. A. H. van Leeuwen
6514 Distributed response analysis of conductive behavior in
single molecules
Marc in het Panhuis, Robert W. Munn, Paul L. A. Popelier,
Jonathan N. Coleman, Brian Foley, and Werner J. Blau
8488 Design of protein struts for self-assembling
nanoconstructs
Paul Hyman, Regina Valluzzi, and Edward Goldberg
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