Editing Walter Gilbert (section)

==Awards and honors==
[[File:WalterGilbert2.jpg|thumb|right|Walter Gilbert portrait via the National Library of Medicine]]
In 1969, Gilbert was awarded Harvard's Ledlie Prize.<ref name=Shampo/> In 1972 he was named [[American Cancer Society]] Professor of Molecular Biology.<ref name=Shampo/> In 1979, Gilbert was awarded the [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]] together with [[Frederick Sanger]].<ref name=Shampo/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Brownlee|first1=George G.|author-link1=George Brownlee|title=Frederick Sanger CBE CH OM. 13 August 1918 — 19 November 2013|journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]]|year=2015|volume=61|publisher=Royal Society publishing|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2015.0013|pages=437–466|doi-access=free}}</ref> That year he was also awarded the [[Gairdner Prize]] and the [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]].<ref name=Shampo/>

Gilbert was awarded the 1980 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], shared with [[Frederick Sanger]] and [[Paul Berg]]. Gilbert and Sanger were recognized for their pioneering work in devising methods for determining the sequence of [[nucleotide]]s in a [[nucleic acid]].

Gilbert has also been honored by the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] (US Steel Foundation Award, 1968); [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] (Warren Triennial Prize, 1977);<ref>{{Cite web|title=Warren Triennial Prize|url=https://ecor.mgh.harvard.edu/MeetingsEvents/warren-triennial-prize|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127162258/https://ecor.mgh.harvard.edu/MeetingsEvents/warren-triennial-prize|archive-date=November 27, 2020|access-date=2021-10-05|website=ecor.mgh.harvard.edu}}</ref> the [[New York Academy of Sciences]]; (Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977), the [[Académie des Sciences]] of France (Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977).<ref name=Shampo/> Gilbert was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1987]].<ref name=Shampo/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/walter-gilbert-11491/|title=Professor Walter Gilbert ForMemRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922134609/https://royalsociety.org/people/walter-gilbert-11491/|archive-date=2015-09-22|location=London}}</ref><ref name=formemrs>{{cite web|title=Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|archive-date=2015-10-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2002, he received the [[Biotechnology Heritage Award]], from the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] (BIO) and the [[Chemical Heritage Foundation]].<ref name="Biotechnology">{{cite web|title=Biotechnology Heritage Award|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/biotechnology-heritage-award|website=Science History Institute|access-date=22 March 2018|date=2016-05-31}}</ref><ref name=NW2002>{{cite news|title= Paratek Pharmaceuticals Chairman and Co-Founder Dr. Walter Gilbert Receives Heritage Award at BIO 2002|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paratek-pharmaceuticals-chairman-and-co-founder-dr-walter-gilbert-receives-heritage-award-at-bio-2002-77839297.html|access-date=5 February 2014|newspaper=PR NewsWire|date=10 June 2002}}</ref>

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.<ref name="breakthrough">{{cite web|title=Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards 2017 Awardees|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2017_Awardees.php|website=Division of the History of Chemistry|access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Maxam">{{Cite journal | last1 = Maxam | first1 = A. | last2 = Gilbert | first2 = W. | title = A new method for sequencing DNA | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 74 | issue = 2 | pages = 560–564 | year = 1977 | pmid = 265521 | pmc = 392330 | doi=10.1073/pnas.74.2.560 |bibcode = 1977PNAS...74..560M | doi-access = free }}</ref>