| Harold Varmus 8-31-98 | Harold Varmus Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the
discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
www.nih.gov |
| J. Craig Venter 8-24-98 | Molecular biologist; President of Celera Genomics,
who will attempt to sequence the human genome within three years.
www.celera.com www.tigr.org |
| Philip W. Anderson 8-24-98 | Princeton Professor Emeritus of Physics, Vice
Chaiman of the Santa fe Institute, and
winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for
his work in superconductivity, author of
"A Career in Theoretical Physics" and
more.
pupgg.princeton.edu/~gphysics/research/Anderson_Philip.html |
| Clifford Pickover 8-17-98 | IBM Reasearch scientist and author of "The Alien
IQ Test", "Time: A Traveler's Guide",
and others.
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| Joseph Heller 8-17-98 | Author of "Now and Then:From Coney Island to Here",
"Catch-22" , and others. |
| Alexander Rose 8-17-98 | Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, which is building a
millennial clock and library.
http://www.longnow.org |
| Andre Dubus 8-10-98 | Author of "Meditations from a Movable Chair", "Dancing
After Hours: Stories", others.
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| Paul Hoffman 8-10-98 | Author of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", a biography
of mathematician Paul Erdös.
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| Robert Weinberg 8-10-98 | Founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research and Professor
of Biology at MIT ; author of "Racing to the
Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin
of Cancer".
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| Murray Lerner 8-3-98 | Filmmaker; director of "Festival", "From Mao to Mozart",
others.
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| Robert Solow 8-3-98 | MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics and Nobel
Prize winner (in Economics);
author of "Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary
Policy" and more.
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| J. Michael Bishop 8-3-98 | Chancellor of UCSF and co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral
oncogenes.
www.ucsf.edu |