The Green Room

Mondays 6PM - 8PM, with Dorian

Guests from June 1999

Charles Townes
6-28-99
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for work leading to the invention of the maser and the laser; now University of California at Berkeley Professor working in astrophysics.
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/laser/invention/townes-bio.html
Richard Dawkins
6-28-99
Evolutionary biologist, Oxford University zoologist, holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, and author of several influential books including "The Selfish Gene", "The Extended Phenotype", and "Unweaving the Rainbow".
http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/
Richard Hodes
6-21-99
Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.nih.gov/nia/
Persi Diaconis
6-21-99
Stanford University Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, and former professional magician.
http://cartan.stanford.edu/prospects/diaconis/diaconis.html
Robert Wilson
6-14-99
Former Bell Labs radio astronomer who was one of the two discoverers of cosmic backgound radiation, for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize (with Arno Penzias); now at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/laser/invention/cosmology.html
Maxine Singer
6-14-99
Biochemist, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, NIH Scientist Emeritius, and author of several books.
http://www.ciw.edu/
Katharine Gebbie
6-7-99
Director of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
http://www.physics.nist.gov/
Eric Wieschaus
6-7-99
Winner of 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.
http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/faculty/index.html

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