Poster 47
Award Winning Hero
This golden yellow colored poster displays a vertically oriented scroll titled “Nobel Prizes” that were earned from 1905 to 2012. This poster consists of thirty one awards for research that was based on animal models. At the bottom right hand corner is a white cartoon mouse standing up and dressed in a black tuxedo with his front leg on his left hip. The golden Noble prize coin on a blue ribbon draped over its neck and he is gazing at the list of awards proudly as a hero might stand. The scroll has two columns. The column on the far left has the dates that the awards were given and the other column has a short description of the achievement for which the award was made. Examples of achievements include; 1945 – Discovery of penicillin, 1990 – Organ transplantation techniques and 2010 – Development of in vitro fertilization.
