George B. Pegram Lectures
Note: Pegram Lectures from 2003 forward are
available here
as web-based streaming videos.
Pegram Lecture series organizer:
Peter Wanderer
Pegram Lecture
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
"Biology Past and Biology Future: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going"
Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"Science Education: From Kindergarten through College"
Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
"Searching for Novel Gravitational Effects."
Christopher Stubbs, Haravard University
Pegram Lecture
Monday, April 12, 2010
"Dark Energy: A Crisis for Fundamental Physics"
Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
"Controlling the Cell Cycle"
Paul Nurse, The Rockefeller University
Pegram Lecture
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
"The Great Ideas of Biology"
Paul Nurse, The Rockefeller University
Pegram Lecture
Thursday, November 20, 2008
"Science and Politics"
John Marburger, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Pegram Lecture
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"Science and Money"
John Marburger, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
"The Science of Science Policy"
John Marburger, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Pegram Lecture
Friday, November 03, 2006
"Picturing Objectivity"
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Friday, November 03, 2006
"The Pyramid and the Ring"
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Thursday, November 02, 2006
"Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps"
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
"The Brave New World of Buckytubes"
Prof. Richard Smalley, Rice University
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
"Our Energy Future"
Prof. Richard Smalley, Rice University
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
"Microtools for Biology"
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
"The Future of Science and Technology"
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
Pegram Lecture
Monday, September 22, 2003
"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
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 |
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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? |
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| 7/27/2000 |
Edward R. Tufte
Yale University |
Presenting Data and Information |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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6/17/1993
6/18/1993 |
James D. Watson |
Beyond the Double Helix:
The Search for the Genetic Code
The Human Genome Project |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 12/4/1985 |
David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate
Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
Regulation of Antibody Synthesis
Saga of an Oncogene |
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| 1979 |
Peter Medawar
Nobel Laureate |
The Philosophy of Prediction
Illustrated from Medical Science
The Story of Tumor Immunity
Is Human Understanding Finite? |
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| 1975 |
Jean Mayer
Harvard University |
Noah's Ark: An Inquiry into
Nature, Man's Food and Population |
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| 1972 |
Colin Low
Executive Producer, National Film Board of Canada |
The Film: An Instrument for
Social Change |
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| 1971 |
George E. Reedy
Author and Lecturer |
The Decline of Democratic
Dialogue in our Society published as The Presidency in Flux |
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| 1971 |
Barbara W. Tuchman
Author and Historian |
The U.S. and China: The
Historian's Craft |
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| 1969 |
Roger Revelle, Demographer |
The Population Problem and What
Can be Done About It |
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| 1967 |
Andre Maurois, Author and Critic
Delivered after A. Maurois' death by Jacques Barzun |
Illusions |
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| 1966 |
Louis S. B. Leakey
Anthropologist, National Museum of Kenya |
A Review of Theories on Human
Evolution and a Revision |
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| 1965 |
Richard Hofstader, Historian
Columbia University |
Academic Freedom and Scientific
Ideal |
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| 1964 |
Barbara Ward, Economist |
World Affairs: A Sense of
Direction published as Spaceship Earth |
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| 1963 |
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
Institute for Advance Studies |
Niels Bohr and His Times |
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| 1962 |
Derek J. de Solla Price
Physicist and Historian of Science
Yale University |
Little Science, Big Science |
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| 1961 |
Charles A. Coulson, Chemist
Oxford University |
The Scientist and Society |
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| 1960 |
Rene J. Dubos, Microbiologist
and
Historian-Philosopher of Science
Rockefeller University |
the Dreams of Reason |
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| 1959 |
Lee A. DuBridge, Physicist
California Institute of Technology |
An Introduction to Space |
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