Presentation of the Kober Medal for 1999 to Jean D. Wilson Physician‐Scientist Exemplar

This article is adapted from a lecture presented by Joseph L. Goldstein at the 1999 Joint Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians in Chicago, Illinois, USA on April 25, 1999. The George M. Kober Medal, the Association of American Physician's highest honor, has been awarded annually since 1924 to a member of the Association who has made outstanding contributions to the “progress and achievement of the medical sciences.”