| 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 |