the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1987. In 2002, he received the Biotechnology Heritage Award, from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Allan Maxam and Walter Gilbert's 1977 paper "A new method for sequencing DNA" was honored by a Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award from the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for 2017. It was presented to the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Personal life Gilbert married Celia Stone, the daughter of I. F. Stone, in 1953 and has two children. After retiring from Harvard in 2001, Gilbert has launched an artistic career to combine art and science. His art format is centered on digital photography. References External links 1932 births Nobel laureates in Chemistry American Nobel laureates Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge American biochemists 21st-century American physicists Foreign Members of the Royal Society Harvard College alumni Living people People from Boston Harvard Fellows Scripps Research Biotechnologists Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Sidwell Friends School alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society