SIXTH SPECIAL AWARD 363 Dr. Aaron 13. Lerner (right), School of Medicine, Yale University receiving fipe- cial Award from H. J. Amsterdam, President of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. the SOC•F.T¾ this illuminated scroll and check for $1000 with the express hope that it will serve to stimulate ub' ' p hcat•ons of significant research in scientific disciplines bearing on the work of the cosmetic chemist." AARON B. LERNER, M.D., PH.D.--REMARKABLE MAN, CLINICIAN, AND, ABOVE ALL, SCIENTIST A Eulogy by L. E^RL•. ARSOW, Ph.D., M.D. O•v. D^¾ in the fall of 1940, a young fellow named Aaron Lerner walked into my laboratory at the University of Minnesota and announced that he wished to do some graduate work in physiological chemistry. He had taken his B.A. degree at Minnesota, majoring in mathematics and chemistry. He had spent a summer cleaning animal cages in the Depart- ment of Biology, and had learned something about research by doing a problem involving spectroscopy and lipid metabolism with Dr. Richard H. Barnes, now Dean of the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell Uni- versity. For this work, he received the rare distinction of election to membership in Sigma Xi while still an undergraduate student. As it happened, one day I had discovered a small bottle of dopa (L- dihydroxyphenylalanine) in our departmental stockroom. Using the ma-

SIXTH SPECIAL AWARD 363 Dr. Aaron 13. Lerner (right), School of Medicine, Yale University receiving fipe- cial Award from H. J. Amsterdam, President of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. the SOC•F.T¾ this illuminated scroll and check for $1000 with the express hope that it will serve to stimulate ub' ' p hcat•ons of significant research in scientific disciplines bearing on the work of the cosmetic chemist." AARON B. LERNER, M.D., PH.D.--REMARKABLE MAN, CLINICIAN, AND, ABOVE ALL, SCIENTIST A Eulogy by L. E^RL•. ARSOW, Ph.D., M.D. O•v. D^¾ in the fall of 1940, a young fellow named Aaron Lerner walked into my laboratory at the University of Minnesota and announced that he wished to do some graduate work in physiological chemistry. He had taken his B.A. degree at Minnesota, majoring in mathematics and chemistry. He had spent a summer cleaning animal cages in the Depart- ment of Biology, and had learned something about research by doing a problem involving spectroscopy and lipid metabolism with Dr. Richard H. Barnes, now Dean of the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell Uni- versity. For this work, he received the rare distinction of election to membership in Sigma Xi while still an undergraduate student. As it happened, one day I had discovered a small bottle of dopa (L- dihydroxyphenylalanine) in our departmental stockroom. Using the ma-