George B. Pegram Lectures

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11/3/2006	Peter Galison Harvard University	"Picturing Objectivity"
11/3/2006	Peter Galison Harvard University	"The Pyramid and the Ring"
11/2/2006	Peter Galison Harvard University	"Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps"
10/20/2004	Prof. Richard Smalley Rice University	"The Brave New World of Buckytubes"
10/19/2004	Prof. Richard Smalley Rice University	"Our Energy Future"
9/23/2003	George M. Whitesides Harvard University	"Microtools for Biology"
9/23/2003	George M. Whitesides Harvard University	"The Future of Science and Technology"
9/22/2003	George M. Whitesides Harvard University	"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"

5/13/2002 5/14/2002 5/15/2002	Freeman Dyson Institute for Advanced Study	Unfashionable Thoughts About Science and Technology Thought Experiments: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Mechanics Looking for Life in Unlikely Places World Economic Forum 2001 Debates on the Future of Science and Technology

5/8/2001 5/9/2001	Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute	The Beauty of the Cosmos: The Accelerating Universe Black Holes: Can These Shed Light on Anything?

7/27/2000	Edward R. Tufte Yale University	Presenting Data and Information

3/12/1999 3/15/1999 3/17/1999	Graciela Chichilnisky Columbia University	Biosphere and Society: Economic Returns from the Biosphere The Kyoto Protocol and the Carbon Cycle Resilience and the Knowledge Revolution

6/11/1996 6/12/1996 6/13/1996	Sir John Maddox Editor Emeritus of Nature Magazine	Science and the 21st Century: Perspective and Prospect Understanding Living Things Improving on the Real World

5/30/1995 5/31/1995 6/1/1995	D. Allan Bromley Sterling Professor of the Sciences Dean of Engineering Yale University	Science and Technology: Advice and Policy: A Connecticut Physicist in the White House The Support of American Science and Technology The Future of American Science and Technology

6/7/1994 6/8/1994 6/9/1994	Robert Serber Emeritus Professor of Physics Columbia University	Peace and War: War -- Berkeley and Los Alamos War -- Tinian and Japan Peace -- Early Days at Berkeley, Cal Tech and Brookhaven

6/17/1993 6/18/1993	James D. Watson	Beyond the Double Helix: The Search for the Genetic Code The Human Genome Project

4/27/1992 4/30/1992 5/7/1992	Maurice Goldhaber Nuclear Physicist and AUI Distinguished Scientist Emeritus	A Physicist's Journey: Reminiscences from the Cavendish Laboratory Nuclear Photo-Effect and Slow Neutrons Nuclear Isomers and Neutrino History Tests of Conservation Laws and the Search for Proton Decay

6/10/1990 6/12/1990 6/13/1990	Roald Hoffman Chemist and Nobel Laureate Cornell University	The Same and Not the Same: The First Question The Driven Natives Meanwhile, Back in the Lab

7/21/1989 7/22/1989 7/23/1989	Michael Brown Director, Center for Genetic Disease University of Texas, Nobel Laureate	Genes that Control Cholesterol When Genes and the Environment Collide

8/9/1989 8/10/1989	Sir Denys Wilkinson Nuclear Physicist, University of Sussex	Man's Universe: published as Our Universes Man's Way of Thought The Quantum and Gravity The Cosmos and Man

7/13/1988 7/14/1988	Robert C. Gallo, Chief Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology National Cancer Institute	Late Twentieth Century Viruses and Their Role in Cancer and AIDS

12/4/1985	David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research	Regulation of Antibody Synthesis Saga of an Oncogene

1979	Peter Medawar Nobel Laureate	The Philosophy of Prediction Illustrated from Medical Science The Story of Tumor Immunity Is Human Understanding Finite?

1975	Jean Mayer Harvard University	Noah's Ark: An Inquiry into Nature, Man's Food and Population

1972	Colin Low Executive Producer, National Film Board of Canada	The Film: An Instrument for Social Change

1971	George E. Reedy Author and Lecturer	The Decline of Democratic Dialogue in our Society published as The Presidency in Flux

1971	Barbara W. Tuchman Author and Historian	The U.S. and China: The Historian's Craft

1969	Roger Revelle, Demographer	The Population Problem and What Can be Done About It

1967	Andre Maurois, Author and Critic Delivered after A. Maurois' death by Jacques Barzun	Illusions

1966	Louis S. B. Leakey Anthropologist, National Museum of Kenya	A Review of Theories on Human Evolution and a Revision

1965	Richard Hofstader, Historian Columbia University	Academic Freedom and Scientific Ideal

1964	Barbara Ward, Economist	World Affairs: A Sense of Direction published as Spaceship Earth

1963	J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist Institute for Advance Studies	Niels Bohr and His Times

1962	Derek J. de Solla Price Physicist and Historian of Science Yale University	Little Science, Big Science

1961	Charles A. Coulson, Chemist Oxford University	The Scientist and Society

1960	Rene J. Dubos, Microbiologist and Historian-Philosopher of Science Rockefeller University	the Dreams of Reason

1959	Lee A. DuBridge, Physicist California Institute of Technology	An Introduction to Space