| David Baltimore 9-28-98 |
President of CalTech; winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine for discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses &
the genetic material of the cell.
http://www.caltech.edu |
| Vera Rubin 9-28-98 |
Astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washhington's Department of
Terrestrial Magnetism; author of "Bight Galaxies, Dark Matters".
http://www.ciw.edu/DTM-astrophysics.html |
| Kary Mullis 9-21-98 |
Winner in 1993 of Nobel Prize in Chemisrty for invention of the polymerase
chain reaction method; author of "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field".
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| VS Ramachandran 9-21-98 |
UCSD neuroscientist doing research in phantom limbs & other
perceptual/cognitive phenomena and related areas; coauthor (with Sandra
Blakeslee) of "Phantoms in the Brain:Probing the Mysteries of the Human
Mind".
http://psy.ucsd.edu/faculty_p/ramachandran_v_p.html
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| Stuart Kauffman 9-21-98 |
Theoretical biologist; founder of the BIOS Group; author of "At Home in the
Universe".
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| Michael Gazzaniga 9-14-98 |
Director of the Program in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College;
author of "The Mind's Past" and others.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pcn/Gazzaniga.html |
| Charles Falco 9-14-98 |
Holder of the Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, Professor of Optical
Sciences & Research Scientist at the Surface Science Division at the
University od Arizone; curator of the Guggenheim Museum (& subsequently
travelling) exhibition "The Art of the Motorcycle".
http://www.arl.arizona.edu/ssd.staff.html#top |
| Felix Browder 9-7-98 | President-elect of the Amrican Mathematical Society and
University Professor of Rutgers University.
www.rutgers.edu |
| Richard Fortey 9-7-98 | Senior Paleontologist at the London natural History Museum; author of "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth". |