Michael Turner (5-4) | UChicago Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics and
Physics, Fermilab and Sloan Digital Sky Survey physicist.
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Carl Zimmer (5-4) | Senior editor at Discover magazine and author of "At the Water's Edge".
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Jeremy Rifkin (5-11) | social critic and author of "The Biotech Century" and
"The End of Work", amongst others.
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Eric Kandel (5-4) | Lasker Award-winning neurobiologist and
psychiatrist specializing in the biological basis of memory.
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Sidney Altman (5-18) | Yale biochemist and former Dean of Yale College who
shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
his discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.
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Lynn Margulis (5-18) | Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; coauthor of "Slanted Truths", "What Is Sex" and others.
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Mark Ptashne (5-25) | Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist specializing
in genetic switching at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC.
www.laskerfoundation.com/library/ptashne/index.html
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Persi Diaconis (5-25) | mathematician/magician and statistician
extrordinaire currently at Stanford University.
www.math.harvard.edu/HTML/Individuals/Persi_Diaconis.html
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