• Vol. 28 No. 4, 618–619
  • 15 July 1999

Address by the Master, Academy of Medicine, Singapore at the 1999 Annual Induction Dinner at the Regent Hotel

We are in the last year of the nineteen hundreds. Next year will be year 2000. Time magazine, in choosing this century’s greatest minds and best brains, named 3 in the field of medicine-Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin, Jonas Salk and his vaccine against polio, and Watson and Crick for unravelling the secrets of life in DNA.

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