Past Meeting Speakers

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Dr. Carl Bridenbaugh, 4/17/1980
O-pe-chan-can-ough: A Native American Patriot
Dr. Victor A. McKusick, 4/17/1980
The Anatomy of the Human Genome
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, 4/17/1980
Maps of the Whole World Ocean
Mr. Silvio A. Bedini, 4/18/1980
The Papal Pachyderms
Dr. Walter Gellhorn, 4/18/1980
Battering the Bureaucracy: Delight or Delusion
Dr. George A. Kubler, 4/18/1980
Augustinian Esthetics in the Architecture of the Escorial
Dr. Paul B. MacCready, 4/18/1980
Human Power Transportation Limits
Mr. Charles Scribner, Jr., 4/18/1980
Publishing the Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Ulf Svante von Euler, 4/18/1980
Evolutionary Aspects on Neurogenic Bioregulation and Transmitters
Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, 4/18/1980
Is Nuclear Energy Necessary?
Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, 11/13/1980
Hepatitis-B Virus and the Prevention of Primary Cancer of the Liver
Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., 11/13/1980
Syn-fuels and Syn-ethics: Issues for a Synthetic Fuels Industry
Dr. George C. Homans, 11/13/1980
John Adams and the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
Stephen W. Kuffler, 11/13/1980
A New Chemical Transmitter in Autonomic Ganglia
Dr. Edith Porada, 11/13/1980
Horned Animals and Serpents: Problems in the Arts and Sciences
Dr. Harvey Brooks, 11/14/1980
Perspectives on the Energy Problem
Dr. James F. Crow, 11/14/1980
Comparison of Energy Risks
Mr. John H. Gibbons, 11/14/1980
Engergy Productivity: Opportunities, Constraints, and Progress
Dr. Ward H. Goodenough, 11/14/1980
On Describing Religion in Truk: An Anthropological Dilemma
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 11/14/1980
Sr.,
Gould and Bailey, Their Hummingbird Folios
Rensselaer W. Lee, 11/14/1980
The First Illustrations of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
Professor Martin Lindauer, 4/23/1981
Communication and Orientation in Honeybees
Mr. J. Irwin Miller, 4/23/1981
An Anatomy of Freedom
Dr. Ihor Sevcenko, 4/23/1981
Byzantine Saints' Lives in High Style
Allen V. Astin, 4/24/1981
Contradictions in American Higher Education
Dr. Manson Benedict, 4/24/1981
Nuclear Power in the World Today
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/24/1981
A Noninvasive Biochemical Assay and Imaging of Animal and Human Tissues by Optical and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques
Lord Alexander R. Todd, 4/24/1981
Dinner Speaker
Dr. Vincent G. Dethier, 4/25/1981
Fly, Rat and Man: The Continuing Quest for an Understanding of Behaviour
Dr. Marshall Clagett, 11/12/1981
William of Moerbeke: The Translator of Archimedes
Dr. Jane M. Oppenheimer, 11/12/1981
Ernst Heinrich Haekel as an Intermediary in the Transmutation of an Idea
Dr. Gordon N. Ray, 11/12/1981
French Book Illustration: The Strange Case of J.J. Granville
Dr. Åke W. Sjöberg, 11/12/1981
Do You Read Sumerian? Towards a Sumarian Dictionary
Dr. Hatten S. Yoder, Jr., 11/12/1981
Strategic Minerals: A Critical Research Need and Opportunity
Dr. Jerome Blum, 11/13/1981
Fiction and the European Peasantry: The Realist Novel as an Historical Resource
Dr. Jonathan M. Brown, 11/13/1981
Power and Imagery at the Court of Philip IV of Spain
Dr. Evelyn B. Harrison, 11/13/1981
Pheidian Faces
Dr. Francis O. Schmitt, 11/13/1981
Molecular Genetics: Key to New Concepts of Brain Function and Dysfunction
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 4/22/1982
Views from Another East Berlin
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 4/22/1982
Sr.,
A Very High-Speed Moving Picture, Mostly of Hummingbirds
Dr. Erwin N. Griswold, 4/22/1982
Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes-Observations on ABSCAM
Professor George F. Kennan, 4/22/1982
Views from another East Berlin
Dr. Bernard Lewis, 4/22/1982
Some Reflections on Orientalism
Dr. Robert A. Nisbet, 4/22/1982
Genius and Milieu
Dr. Gerald E. Bentley, 4/23/1982
William Shakespeare, Man of the Theatre
Richmond Lattimore, 4/23/1982
Poems Old and New: A Reading
Dr. Saunders MacLane, 4/23/1982
Mathematical Proof is Eternal
Dr. Gerard Piel, 4/23/1982
Symposium: On New Kinds of Mathematical Proof
Dr. Marshall H. Stone, 4/23/1982
Logic Is A Tool
Dr. M. Alison Frantz, 4/24/1982
Multum in Parvo: The Aegean Island of Sikinos
Mrs. Beverly Sills Greenough, 4/24/1982
The Arts-Who Pays?
Dr. Ruth Patrick, 4/24/1982
The Importance of Pattern in Diversity
Dr. Craig R. Thompson, 11/11/1982
A Legendary Translation of the Bible and Its Consequences
Dr. Homer A. Thompson, 11/11/1982
Athenian Contributions to the Iconography of the Sun God Mithras
Dr. Anthony F. C. Wallace, 11/11/1982
The Perception of Risk in Nineteenth-Century Anthracite Mining Operations
Dr. Pierre Aigrain, 11/12/1982
Science Policy at Government Level: The French Case
Dr. Mary Maples Dunn, 11/12/1982
The Personality of William Penn
Dr. Richard S. Dunn, 11/12/1982
William Penn and the Selling of Pennsylvania, 1681-1685
Dr. Roland M. Frye, 11/12/1982
So-Called "Creation Science" and Mainline Christian Responses
Dr. Edmund S. Morgan, 11/12/1982
The World and William Penn
Dr. Konrad E. Bloch, 4/21/1983
A Chemical View of Evolution
Professor Shmuel Eisenstadt, 4/21/1983
Heterdoxy and Dynamics of Civilizations
Dr. Mabel L. Lang, 4/21/1983
Herodotus: Oral History with a Difference
Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 4/21/1983
Some Crucial Incidents in Ancient Maya History
Dr. William J. Bouwsma, 4/22/1983
John Calvin's Anxiety
The Honorable Kingman Brewster, 4/22/1983
Jr.,
The Atlantic Alliance: Is the Anchor Dragging?
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, 4/22/1983
Tycho and the Master Witt: Notes on the Prehistory of Logarithms
Dr. Maclyn McCarty, 4/22/1983
On the Unexpected Fruits of Mission-Oriented Research
Dr. Lynn T. White, Jr., 4/22/1983
Fingers, Chopsticks, and Forks: Reflections on the Technology of Eating
Dr. Robert H. Burris, 4/23/1983
Nitrogen Metabolism in the Coral-Algal Symbiosis
Dr. Hans Frauenfelder, 4/23/1983
Physics in Biomolecules
Dr. Hans G. Güterbock, 4/23/1983
Hittites and Akhaeans: A New Look
Dr. Leonard Krieger, 4/23/1983
The One that Got Away
Dr. Carlos H. Baker, 11/10/1983
The Poet as Janus: Originality and Imitation in Modern Poetry
Dr. William M. Fairbank, 11/10/1983
Near Zero: A Frontier of Physics
Dr. Harry W. Jones, 11/10/1983
Grant-Making at the APS: The "Little Small Dice" of Your Committee on Research
Dr. Stanley N. Katz, 11/10/1983
Symposium Moderator: On Academic Grant-Making in the United States, 1933-1983
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, 11/10/1983
Plate Teutonics and Pangea: A Scientist's Artful Conception
The Honorable Arlin M. Adams, 11/11/1983
The Role of the Federal Judiciary
Dr. Britton Chance, 11/11/1983
Summary and Future Trends
Dr. Beatrice Mintz, 11/11/1983
Genetic Engineering in Laboratory Mice
Dr. Colin S. Pittendrigh, 11/11/1983
Time in Life
Dr. Edward M. Purcell, 11/11/1983
Symposium: On In Vivo Biochemistry
Dr. H. Bentley Glass, 4/19/1984
Genetics Embattled: Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in the 1920's and 1930's
Dr. John Rupert Martin, 4/19/1984
Portraits of Doctors by Rembrandt and Rubens
Dr. Isidor Isaac Rabi, 4/19/1984
Benjamin Franklin and the Atom
Dr. James Thorpe, 4/19/1984
Interpreting Style: The Prose of The King James and The New English Bibles
Dr. Derk Bodde, 4/20/1984
Sex in Chinese Civilization
Dr. Brooke Hindle, 4/20/1984
Interpreting the American Industrial Revolution
Dr. Colin S. Pittendrigh, 4/20/1984
Biological Clocks: 1729-1984
Dr. Floyd Ratliff, 4/20/1984
Contour and Contrast: From Cave Painting to Cambridge Psychology
Dr. Erica Reiner, 4/20/1984
"Why do you cuss me?"
Dr. Cyril S. Smith, 4/20/1984
Hierarchies of Pattern in Art and in Science
Dr. Lawrence A. Cremin, 4/21/1984
The Popularization of American Education Since World War II: Some Issues and Problems
Dr. Ralph E. Gomory, 4/21/1984
Some Observations on Research in Industry
Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, 11/8/1984
Editing Darwin
Dr. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., 11/8/1984
The Beginnings of the Modern Industrial Corporation
Dr. Robert H. Dyson, 11/8/1984
The Stepped Cross: Bronze Age Symbolism
Dr. Edward A. Frieman, 11/8/1984
Where Has The Energy Crisis Gone?
Dr. Christian Habicht, 11/8/1984
An Ancient Baedeker and His Critics: Pausanias' Guide to Greece
Sir Rutherford N. Robertson, 11/8/1984
Purple Pigments: Bacteria, Sheep's Eyes, and Serendipity
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 11/8/1984
Popes and Turks in the Sixteenth Century
Dr. Morton W. Bloomfield, 11/9/1984
Some Functions of Poetry in Early Society
Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., 11/9/1984
China and Science: Some Thoughts
Dr. Charles C. Gillispie, 11/9/1984
Federal Flight 1, Philadelphia - Woodbury, 10:00 A.M., January 9, 1793
Mr. William T. Golden, 11/9/1984
Science Advice to the President: Past, Present, Future
Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, 11/9/1984
The Results of the IRS Survey
Dr. Vincent G. Dethier, 4/18/1985
Sniff, Flick, and Pulse: An Appreciation of Interruption
Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang, 4/18/1985
Symposium: On Penological Practices and Reform
Dr. Walter Gellhorn, 4/19/1985
Palaver about Pornography
Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 4/19/1985
Jr.,
Graves of the Ancient Lydians and the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1910-1922
Dr. Thomas W. Langfitt, 4/19/1985
Newer Developments in the Understanding of Trauma
Dr. Abraham Pais, 4/19/1985
Niels Bohr: Centenary Reflections
Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, 4/19/1985
Estimates of the Incidence, Costs, and Results of Trauma in the United States
Dr. Gunther S. Stent, 4/19/1985
Hermeneutics and the Analysis of Complex Biological Systems
Dr. Francisco Jose Ayala, 4/20/1985
On Chinese Boxes and the Origin of Genes
Dr. Nicolaas Bloembergen, 4/20/1985
Laser Lights Pulses: Ultrashort and Ultra-intense Applications
Dr. Richard L. Garwin, 11/14/1985
Reasons for a Pessimistic View About the Feasibility and Utility of a Defense Which Ensures Survival of Populations and Nations
Dr. Bruce M. Metzger, 11/14/1985
History of Editing the Greek New Testament
Dr. Frederick Mosteller, 11/14/1985
The Authorship of the Disputed "Federalist" Papers
Dr. William J. Roach, 11/14/1985
The Earliest Cycle of the Medieval French Grail Romances
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 11/15/1985
Philosophical Hall, The Building and Its Tenants: A History
Dr. Harry G. Drickamer, 11/15/1985
Pressure Tuning of Electronic Energy Levels in Solids
Dr. Felix Gilbert, 11/15/1985
Leopold von Ranke: Centenary Reflections
Dr. William A. Nierenberg, 11/15/1985
Cyrano de Bergerac - Physicist
Dr. John A. Simpson, 11/15/1985
Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Nuclear Particles
Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, 11/15/1985
Power Breeders: Reminiscences and Aspirations
Sir Andrew F. Huxley, 4/24/1986
Experiments on Living Animals
Dr. Edward O. Wilson, 4/24/1986
The Ethical Implications of Biological Diversity
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/25/1986
To Invade or Not to Invade
Dr. Ansley J. Coale, 4/25/1986
Demographic Efforts of Scientific Progress
Dr. Walter Gellhorn, 4/25/1986
China's Quest for Legality
Sir Andrew F. Huxley, 4/25/1986
Discovery and Forgetting in Science
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 4/25/1986
Francesco Morosini and the Destruction of the Parthenon
Dr. Eliot Stellar, 4/25/1986
Biomedical Ethics
Dr. Lewis Thomas, 4/25/1986
Ambiguities in Medical Science
Mr. Thomas J. Watson, Jr., 4/25/1986
Some Observations on Soviet-American Relations and Nuclear Arms
Dr. John A. Simpson, 4/26/1986
Encounters of the Soviet Vega Spacecraft with Halley's Comet: A Preliminary Report on the Scientific Observations
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, 4/26/1986
News from Visits to Halley's Comet
Dr. Gregory C. Chow, 11/13/1986
Development of a More Market-Oriented Economy in China
Dr. Jack H. Hexter, 11/13/1986
The History of Freedom?
Dr. John J. Hopfield, 11/13/1986
Logic, Brain and Computation
Dr. Vera C. Rubin, 11/13/1986
Dark Matter in the Universe
Dr. Chen Ning Yang, 11/13/1986
Science and Technology in China
Dr. Jacques Barzun, 11/14/1986
An Insoluble Problem: The Patronage of Art
Professor Halet Çambel, 11/14/1986
Change and Stability: A Case Study of 9,000 Year Old Village at the Headwaters of the Tigris
Dr. Cyril M. Harris, 11/14/1986
Architectural Acoustics: Science, Engineering, or Black Magic?
Dr. Martin D. Kamen, 11/14/1986
T.W. Engelmann: A Lost Image
Dr. Robert R. Palmer, 11/14/1986
The Two Tocquevilles and Two Kinds of History
The Honorable Arlin M. Adams, 4/23/1987
Symposium Moderator: On U.S. Constitution
Mr. Louis Henkin, 4/23/1987
The Constitution as Social Compact
Mr. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, 4/23/1987
Separation of Powers - Then and Now
Lord Leslie George Scarman, 4/23/1987
Remarks on the Constitutional Celebration
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/24/1987
The Design and Performance of Twelve Meter Yachts
Dr. Jack P. Greene, 4/24/1987
Political Experience and the Fabrication of the Federal Constitution
Dr. Arthur S. Link, 4/24/1987
Symposium: On the Genius of the U.S. Constitution
Dr. Robert E. Marshak, 4/24/1987
The Pragmatic Humanism of Einstein and Sakharov
Dr. Robert K. Merton, 4/24/1987
On the Origin and Character of the Work "Scientist"
Dr. Garry Wills, 4/24/1987
The Enlightenment and the Constitution
Dr. J. William Schopf, 4/25/1987
Search for the Oldest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma
Dr. Theodore J. Ziolkowski, 4/25/1987
Schinkel's Museum: The Romantic Temple of Art
Dr. Edward A. Frieman, 11/12/1987
Superconductors, Supernovas, Supercolliders and All That-Some Thoughts on Science Policy
Dr. Eric R. Kandel, 11/12/1987
The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory
Dr. Kenneth Levy, 11/12/1987
Is Tonality a Natural Law?
Dr. Peter Marler, 11/12/1987
The Instinct to Learn: Birdsong
Dr. Daniel Nathans, 11/12/1987
The Human Genome
Dr. Edward C. Stone, 11/12/1987
The Voyager Exploration of the Outer Planets
Dr. Emily Townsend Vermeule, 11/12/1987
Baby Aigisthos and the Bronze Age
Dr. Ansley J. Coale, 11/13/1987
Population Policy and Population Change in China
Mr. William B. Eagleson, Jr., 11/13/1987
Symposium Moderator: On China-The Promise and the Problems
Mr. William T. Golden, 11/13/1987
Symposium Moderator: On Population Problems
Dr. A. McGehee Harvey, 11/13/1987
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, 11/13/1987
Symposium: On Aging
Mr. Maurice F. Strong, 11/13/1987
Managing for Global Survival
Dr. Sune D. Bergström, 4/21/1988
International Cooperation in Biomedical Research: Inter-relations of the U.S.A. and Sweden
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/21/1988
Moderator Joint Symposium with The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the APS
Dr. Per-Olov Löwdin, 4/21/1988
On the Swedish-American Exchange Project in the Quantum Sciences
Lord Richard H. Adrian, 4/22/1988
The Crisis in British Universities
Dr. Alexander G. Bearn, 4/22/1988
River Blindness: New Hope from Strange Beginnings
Dr. John D. Roberts, 4/22/1988
Some Useful Knowledge about Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Medicine
Dr. George F. Bass, 4/23/1988
Gelidonya Burnu to Ulu Burun: Two Bronze Age Shipwrecks in Turkey
Dr. Edward C. Carter II, 4/23/1988
"Little Black Sheep Who Have Gone Astray" - Not Yale but the APS
Dr. David B. Davis, 4/23/1988
The African Colonization Movement: America's Exiles or Missionary Saviors?
Dr. Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, 4/23/1988
Is There A Limit to the Energy Attainable by High Energy Colliders for Particle Physics?
Dr. David P. Eastburn, 11/17/1988
Introduction to Symposium on Economic Discipline: "There Ain't No Thing As A Free Lunch"
Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, 11/17/1988
"Second Childhood", Senile Dementias as Brain Amyloidoses
Dr. Robert V. Roosa, 11/17/1988
A Global View
Dr. John E. Sawyer, 11/17/1988
How Firm Are Foundations?
Dr. James Tobin, 11/17/1988
Present versus Future
Mr. Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., 11/18/1988
On the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Dr. David M. Bevington, 11/18/1988
"Is This The Promised End?" Death and Dying in King Lear
Dr. James Gunn, 11/18/1988
The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Dr. Michael H. Jameson, 11/18/1988
In the Long Run: The Study of a Greek Country Countryside from 50,000 B.C. to the Present.
Dr. Paul Talalay, 11/18/1988
New Chemical Principles for Reducing the Risk if Cancer
Dr. Emily Townsend Vermeule, 11/18/1988
Heads Up, and Mind the Liquor
Dr. Gerald M. Edelman, 4/20/1989
Is It Possible to Construct a Perception Machine?
Dr. John A. Wheeler, 4/20/1989
Can We Ever Expect to Understand Existence?
Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, 4/21/1989
Humboldt in Philadelphia
Mr. David T. Kearns, 4/21/1989
Education for a Fair and Competitive Society
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 4/21/1989
Nerve Growth Factor
Dr. James R. McCredie, 4/21/1989
A Ship for the Great Gods
Dr. Neal E. Miller, 4/21/1989
False Statements by Opponents of Animal Research May Endanger Your Health
Dr. Alexander Rich, 4/21/1989
DNA Exists in Various Forms
Dr. Noel M. Swerdlow, 4/21/1989
The Observational Foundation of Ptolomy's Astronomy
Dr. Gordon Randolph Willey, 4/21/1989
Ancient Maya Politics
Dr. Bryce Crawford, Jr., 4/22/1989
The Learned Society
Dr. Henry M. Hoenigswald, 4/22/1989
Medical Malpractice: A Profession in Torment
Dr. George F. Carrier, 11/9/1989
Nuclear Winter
Dr. George F. Carrier, 11/9/1989
Symposium: On Global Threats
Dr. Ward H. Goodenough, 11/9/1989
Concern with Social Identity and Personal Worth as a Source of Social Turbulence
Dr. David A. Hamburg, 11/9/1989
Conflict Resolution in a Time of World Transformation
Dr. Jane M. Oppenheimer, 11/9/1989
Science and Nationality: The Case of Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876
Dr. Ruth Patrick, 11/9/1989
Reevaluations of Solutions to Pollution Problems
Dr. Peter H. Raven, 11/9/1989
Loss of Biodiversity: Scope and Consequences
Dr. Glen W. Bowersock, 11/10/1989
Edward Lear in Petra
Dr. Marshall Clagett, 11/10/1989
Ancient Egyptian Annals on Stone
Dr. Giles Constable, 11/10/1989
Mary and Martha in the Middle Ages: Changing Views on Action and Contemplation
Miss Anne d'Harnoncourt, 11/10/1989
Marcel Duchamp (102 Years Young): Reflections upon an Anartist
Dr. Riccardo Giacconi, 11/10/1989
Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, 11/10/1989
When the Shadows Moved Backwards: Hezekiah, Schissler, and the APS
Dr. Mabel L. Lang, 11/10/1989
Illegal Execution in Ancient Athens


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