The Green Room

Mondays 6PM - 8PM, with Dorian

Guests from September, 1998

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".
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
Stuart Kauffman
9-21-98
Theoretical biologist; founder of the BIOS Group; author of "At Home in the Universe".
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".

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