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Presentation of the Academy medal to Henry G. Kunkel, M.D.

T is the privilege of the Academy each year to award a medal to an 1 individual who has contributed outstandingly to the advance of medical knowledge. It is a source of great personal joy to me that this year the Academy has awarded this medal to Dr. Henry G. Kunkel, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Rockefeller University. He is a splendid choice. In previous years Peyton Rous, Oswald Avery, and Richard Shope, all of the Rockefeller University, received this award and Henry Kunkel is assuredly of their number. His scientific contributions in the field of immunology are outstanding, not only in their own right, but because they have become integrated into the very fabric of modern medicine wherever it is practiced in the world today. Henry Kunkel was born in Brooklyn on September 9, 1916, the son of Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel, a distinguished plant pathologist who established the Division of Plant Pathology at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and in whose laboratory Dr. Wendell Stanley carried out the work on the tobacco mosaic virus for which he received a Nobel Prize. It is not hard to see that Henry Kunkel's early interest in science had deep environmental and hereditary roots. In 1938 he received the A.B. degree from Princeton University and decided to embark on a career in medicine. His scientific interests, already kindled by his home environment and his days at Princeton, were stimulated still further at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from which he