Past Meeting Speakers

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Stanhope Bayne-Jones, 4/20/1950
The Control of Epidemic Typhus in World War II
Dr. I. Bernard Cohen, 4/20/1950
The Nature, Scope, Effect, and Significance of Benjamin Franklin's Contribution to Theoretical Physics
Dr. Kingsley Davis, 4/20/1950
Social and Cultural Realities in the World's Densely Settled Rural Regions
Luther P. Eisenhart, 4/20/1950
Walter Minto and the Earl of Buchan
Alva Myrdal, 4/20/1950
Population Trends
Edwin G. Nourse, 4/20/1950
Economic Analysis and Political Synthesis
Dr. Joseph J. Spengler, 4/20/1950
Economic Factors in the Development of Densely Populated Areas
Dorothy S. Thomas, 4/20/1950
Some Social Aspects of Demographic Change in the Japanese-American Population
Edwin G. Boring, 4/21/1950
Great Men and Scientific Progress
Frederick L. Hisaw, 4/21/1950
Hormones and the Evolution of Viviparity Among the Vertebrates
William V. Houston, 4/21/1950
Forces on a Superconductor in a Magnetic Field
Kemp Malone, 4/21/1950
A Poet at Work: Chaucer Revising his Verses
O. H. Perry Pepper, 4/21/1950
Babel in Medicine
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, 4/21/1950
Who made the Roman Portrait Statues-Greeks or Romans?
Lily R. Taylor, 4/21/1950
Annals of the Roman Consulship on the Arch of Augustus
Lynn Thorndike, 4/21/1950
Pre-Copernican Astronomical Activity
Louis L. Thurstone, 4/21/1950
Some Primary Abilities in Visual Thinking
John H. Van Vleck, 4/21/1950
An Unusual Line in the Spectrum of Ammonia
Henry J. Cadbury, 10/26/1950
Mixed Motives in the Gospels
Dr. A. Baird Hastings, 10/26/1950
Effects of Ions and Hormones on Carbohydrate Metabolism
Philip C. Jessup, 10/26/1950
Random Elements in the Formulation and Execution of Foreign Policy
Lindsay Rogers, 10/26/1950
Authority and Liberty, 1950
Herman A. Spoehr, 10/26/1950
Chlorella as a Source of Food
Carl W. Blegen, 10/27/1950
Bookkeeping at Nestor's Pylos
Herbert E. Ives, 10/27/1950
Revisions of the Lorentz Transformations
Alfred L. Kroeber, 10/27/1950
Is Western Civilization Disintegrating or Reconstructing?
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 10/27/1950
The Visibility of Mercury and Historical Data
Loinello Venturi, 10/27/1950
Art and Taste
Charles H. Best, 4/19/1951
Studies in Diabetes
George Boas, 4/19/1951
The Influence of Philosophy on Science
Edwin P. Hubble, 4/19/1951
Explorations in Space, The Cosmological Program for the Palomar Telescopes
Arthur W. Hummel, 4/19/1951
Some Basic Principles in Chinese Culture
William A. Noyes, Jr., 4/19/1951
Photochemistry as a Tool for the Study of Reaction Mechanism
Dr. Linus C. Pauling, 4/19/1951
The Hemoglobin Molecule in Health and Disease
Thomas Jefferson Jackson 4/19/1951
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The Hyperbolic Curves for the Stresses of Gravitation in Space Identical with St. Venant's Torsional Stress in Solids
Ephraim A. Speiser, 4/19/1951
The Ancient Near East and Modern Studies of Civilization
Alan J. Bayard Wace, 4/19/1951
Excavations at Mycenae 1950
Farrington Daniels, 4/20/1951
Utilization of Solar Energy
John Farquahar Fulton, 4/20/1951
The Physiological Basis of Psychosurgery
Herbert Heaton, 4/20/1951
The Industrial Immigrant, 1783-1812
Dr. Burrhus F. Skinner, 4/20/1951
Schedules of Reward and their Effects on Behavior
Alfred H. Williams, 4/20/1951
Money will not Manage Itself
Quincy Wright, 4/20/1951
Law and International Relations
Chester I. Barnard, 11/8/1951
Science and Organization
Dr. Brand Blanshard, 11/8/1951
The New Philosophy of Analysis
Gilbert Chinard, 11/8/1951
Benjamin Franklin as a Promoter of Psychological Warfare
Charles W. Metz, 11/8/1951
Studies on the Evolutionary Role of Minute Chromosome Duplication
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 11/8/1951
The Egyptian Decans and the Origins of our Hours
Erwin Panofsky, 11/8/1951
Some Special Problems in Early Netherlands Painting
Robert Redfield, 11/8/1951
Primitive World View
Philip A. Shaffer, 11/8/1951
The Nature of Kinetic Barriers in Aqueous Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Warren R. Burgess, 11/9/1951
Money as an Instrument of Democracy
Leslie C. Dunn, 11/9/1951
The Origins of Biological Variety (as seen in the laboratory mouse)
Howard Hanson, 11/9/1951
The Projection and Interrelation of Sonorities in Equal Temperament. 1. A New Approach in the Analysis of Musical Composition
Merle A. Tuve, 11/9/1951
Studies of the Earth's Crust using Waves from Explosions
Edwin G. Boring, 4/24/1952
The Validation of Scientific Belief
Dr. I. Bernard Cohen, 4/24/1952
Orthodoxy and Scientific Progress
Henry S. Drinker, 4/24/1952
The Amateur in Music
Edward C. Kendall, 4/24/1952
The Cortex of the Adrenal Gland in Health and Disease
Dr. Charles H. Malik, 4/24/1952
The Relationship of East and West
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 4/24/1952
The Velikovsky Hypothesis
Philip A. Shaffer, 4/24/1952
Concerning the Nature of Kinetic Barriers in Aqueous Oxidation Reduction Reactions
William F. Albright, 4/25/1952
The American Foundation Arabian Exhibition, 1950-1951
Harley H. Bartlett, 4/25/1952
Batak and Malay Versions of a Chant on Rice Planting and Home Building: an Example of Primitive Sumatran Folk Literature for the Edification of Youth
Dr. I. Bernard Cohen, 4/25/1952
The Bicentenary of Franklin's Two Lightening Experiments
Paul H. Douglas, 4/25/1952
Dinner speaker
Hugh L. Dryden, 4/25/1952
Frontiers of Aeronautical Science and Technology
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II, 4/25/1952
The Gulf Stream System
Dr. Alexander H. Leighton, 4/25/1952
Some Observations on Uniformities of Socio-cultural Change at Six Widely Separate Points on Earth
Clarence I. Lewis, 4/25/1952
Ethics in the Age of Science
Duncan A. MacInnes, 4/25/1952
The Electromotive Force Centrifuge, the Development of a Tool for Research
Archer Taylor, 4/25/1952
Riddles in Dialogue
Thomas J. Wertenbaker, 4/25/1952
Archeology in the Restoring of Colonial Williamsberg
Dr. James Gilbert Baker, 11/13/1952
Super Schmidt Meteor Cameras
Ralph J. Bunche, 11/13/1952
The United Nations and World Crisis
Herbert Funk Goodrich, 11/13/1952
An Unsettled Problem in Interstate Divorce Law
Henri Marceau, 11/13/1952
Photographic Aids and Their Uses in Problems of Authenticity in the Field of Paintings
Dr. Thorsten Sellin, 11/13/1952
The Measurement of Criminality
Dr. Homer A. Thompson, 11/13/1952
Athens and the Hellenistic Princess
Alan J. Bayard Wace, 11/13/1952
Excavations at Mycenae, 1952
Edwin J. Cohn, 11/14/1952
The Fine Structure of Proteins: a Contribution to the Understanding of Order in Biological Systems
Albrecht Goetze, 11/14/1952
The Civilization of Early Anatolia
Lewis W. Douglas, 4/23/1953
Penrose Lecturer (no name given for speech)
Paul W. Merrill, 4/23/1953
Side Lights on Cosmic Chemistry
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 4/23/1953
Babylonian Planetary Theory
Frank W. Notestein, 4/23/1953
Some Demographic Aspects of Aging
Robert L. Schuyler, 4/23/1953
British Imperial Theory and American Territorial Policy: A Suggested Relationship
Dr. Chauncey G. Suits, 4/23/1953
The defects in Crystals
Henry S. Drinker, 4/24/1953
The Significance and Technical Analysis of Ancient Textiles as Historical Documents
Ross G. Harrison, 4/24/1953
Edwin Grant Conklin's Contributions to Science
Dr. Wassily Leontief, 4/24/1953
Domestic Production and Foreign Trade: American Capital Position Re-Examined
Cyril Norman Hugh Long, 4/24/1953
Regulation on Food Intake
William A. Nitze, 4/24/1953
Sir Gawain (Gauvain) in the Works of Chretien de Troyes
George Sarton, 4/24/1953
Ancient, Medieval and Modern Science During the Renaissance
Lyman Henry Butterfield, 11/12/1953
Archival and Editorial Enterprise in 1850 and 1950: Some Comparisons and Contrasts
William E. Lingelbach, 11/12/1953
The Society's Library, with Comments on Current Developments
Mr. Lewis Mumford, 11/12/1953
Anticipation and Social Consequences of Atomic Energy
Carl W. Blegen, 11/13/1953
The Palace of King Nestor
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, 11/13/1953
Truth and Noncontradictoryness in Mathematics
Dr. Harold F. Cherniss, 11/13/1953
The Sources of Evil Accounting to Plato
Douglas B. Copland, 11/13/1953
Economic Policy from 1945. A Study in Economic Administration
Hugh L. Dryden, 11/13/1953
A Half-Century of Aeronautical Research
Jerome C. Hunsaker, 11/13/1953
A Half-Century of Aeronautical Developments
John Biggs, Jr., 4/22/1954
Some Observations on the Case of the United States Ex Rel. Smith v. Baldi
Vannevar Bush, 4/22/1954
Scientific Motivation
Carl F. Cori, 4/22/1954
The Molecular Configuration of Starch and Glycogen
Felix Frankfurter, 4/22/1954
Some Observations on the Nature of the Judicial Process in Supreme Court Litigation
Thomas M. Rivers, 4/22/1954
The Story of Research on Poliomyelitis
Howard P. Robertson, 4/22/1954
Is Space Finite?
Francis H. Taylor, 4/22/1954
The Moral and Intellectual Responsibility of Expanding Collections
Warren Weaver, 4/22/1954
The Mathematical Manuscripts of Lewis Carroll
Peter Debye, 4/23/1954
The Effect of Strong Electric Fields on Polymer-Solutions
Milislav Demerec, 4/23/1954
What Make Genes Mutate?
Dr. Murray B. Emeneau, 4/23/1954
Linguistic Prehistory of India
Theophilus S. Painter, 4/23/1954
Regional Cooperation in Professional Education
Wilder G. Penfield, 4/23/1954
Some Observations on the Functional Organism of the Human Brain
Lindsay Rogers, 4/23/1954
Dinner Speaker
George G. Simpson, 4/23/1954
The Rediscovery of Peale's Mastodon
Raymond J. Sontag, 4/23/1954
The Democracies and the Dictators Since 1933
Alan J. Bayard Wace, 4/23/1954
New Discoveries at Mycenae 1953
Arthur P. Whitaker, 4/23/1954
The Origin of the Western Hemisphere Idea
William E. Lingelbach, 11/11/1954
"The Papers of Benjamin Franklin" and The American Philosophical Society
Gerold T. Robinson, 11/11/1954
Stalin's Vision of Utopia: the Future Communist Society
Arnold J. Toynbee, 11/11/1954
Some Reason for the Rise of the Ottoman Empire
John von Neumann, 11/11/1954
Modern Computing Machines
Samuel S. Wilks, 11/11/1954
Statistical Aspects of the Design of Experiments
Dr. Pendleton E. Herring, 11/12/1954
Toward an Understanding of Man: Introductory Comments on the Methods and Objectives of the Social Sciences
Joel H. Hildebrand, 11/12/1954
The Social Responsibility of Scientists
Kemp Malone, 11/12/1954
Old English Poetry
Dr. Henri M. Peyre, 11/12/1954
The Problem of Sincerity in Contemporary French Literature
Crane Brinton, 4/21/1955
The Desertion of the Intellectuals: A Problem in Retrospective Sociology
Carl F. Cori, 4/21/1955
The Effect of Work on an Enzyme System in Muscle
Harold Spencer Jones, 4/21/1955
The Secular Increase in the Length of the Day
Arthur M. Schlesinger, 4/21/1955
Political Mobs and the American Revolution, 1764-1776
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 4/21/1955
Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance
Samuel A. Stouffer, 4/21/1955
Needed Research on the Tolerance of Nonconformity
Dr. John A. Wheeler, 4/21/1955
Human Factors in Making Science
Samuel R. Detwiler, 4/22/1955
The Eye and its Structural Adaptations
David Rockwell Goddard, 4/22/1955
The Cell as a Metabolic Unit
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 4/22/1955
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Photographic Studies of the Feeding of Nestling House Wrens
Morris Albert Linton, 4/22/1955
controversial Facets of Old Age Security
Robert C. Murphy, 4/22/1955
Applications of Science to the Peruvian Guano Industry
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 4/22/1955
Greek Horoscopes
Jesse W. Beams, 11/10/1955
The determination of Molecular Weights by the Equilibrium Ultracentrifuge Method
Ludwig Edelstein, 11/10/1955
The Idea of Progress in Antiquity
Nelson Glueck, 11/10/1955
The Wilderness of Zin
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 11/10/1955
Scientific Intelligence
Kenneth B. Murdock, 11/10/1955
The Colonial Experiences in the Literature of the United States
Dr. Francis O. Schmitt, 11/10/1955
Crystallization of Structural Patterns in Biological Systems
Kenneth J. Conant, 11/11/1955
New Studies on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Rene Jules Dubos, 11/11/1955
Longevity, Health, and Infections
Alfred S. Romer, 11/11/1955
Fish to Reptile; The Evolution of Land Vertebrates
Jacob R. Schramm, 11/11/1955
Brief Progress Report on the Michaux Memorial at the Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania
Leonard Woods Labaree, 1/16/1956
The Return of Mr. Franklin
William E. Lingelbach, 1/16/1956
The Franklin Exhibition
Roy F. Nichols, 1/16/1956
Franklin's Message to the Twentieth Century
Arthur H. Compton, 4/19/1956
The World of Science in the late Eighteenth Century and Today
Edward S. Corwin, 4/19/1956
Franklin and the Constitution
Dr. Grayson Kirk, 4/19/1956
The United States in the Family of Nations
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 4/20/1956
Academies of Science in the Modern World
Douglas B. Copland, 4/20/1956
The Under-Developed Countries and the Structure of the Western Economy
Louis R. Gottschalk, 4/20/1956
Reflections on Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution"
Willard F. Libby, 4/20/1956
Radioactive Strontium Fallout
Henry A. Wallace, 4/20/1956
Corn and the Midwest Farmer
John A. Wilson, 4/20/1956
The Royal Myth in Ancient Egypt
Lloyd Viel Berkner, 11/15/1956
The International Geophysical Year 1957-1958; A Pattern for International Cooperation in Research
Catherine Drinker Bowen, 11/15/1956
Historians Courageous
Haldan Keffer Hartline, 11/15/1956
Patterns of Light on the Retina, and Patterns of Activity in the Optic Nerve
Esmond R. Long, 11/15/1956
Development of the Voluntary Health Movement in America as Illustrated in the Pioneer National Tuberculosis Association
Dr. Floyd Ratliff, 11/15/1956
Patterns of Light on the Retina, and Patterns of Activity in the Optic Nerve
Charles Seymour, 11/15/1956
Woodrow Wilson: A Political Balance Sheet
Carl W. Blegen, 11/16/1956
New Discoveries in the Palace of Nestor
George W. Corner, 11/16/1956
Physicians and Pupils in a Fourth-century Painting
Dr. Samuel N. Kramer, 11/16/1956
The Summerian Literary Tablets in the "Hilprecht Sammlung" of the University of Jena
Dr. Leo Goldberg, 4/25/1957
Solar Spectroscopy with a Vacuum Spectrograph
Mervin J. Kelly, 4/25/1957
The Nation's Research and Development-Their Deficiencies and Means for Correction
Wendell M. Stanley, 4/25/1957
On the Nature of Viruses, Cancer, Genes and Life-A Declaration of Dependence
Leonard Carmichael, 4/26/1957
Dinner Speaker
Stefan Einarsson, 4/26/1957
Iceland and its Literature
Dr. Frederick Mosteller, 4/26/1957
Stochastic Models for the Learning Process
Wilder G. Penfield, 4/26/1957
The Asclepiad Physicians of Cnidus and Cos, with a Note on the Probable Site of the Triopion Games of the Dorian Hexopolis
Thomas J. Wertenbaker, 4/26/1957
Jamestown, 1607-1957
George Boas, 4/24/1958
Aristotle's Methodological Assumptions
Julian P. Boyd, 4/24/1958
The Megalonyx, The Megatherium, and Thomas Jefferson's Lapse of Memory
Harry F. Harlow, 4/24/1958
The Development of Affectional Responses in Primates
George R. Harrison, 4/24/1958
The Production of Large Diffraction Gratings
Zay Jeffries, 4/24/1958
Some Industrial Vitamins
Richard E. Shope, 4/24/1958
Incidental Observations Made on a Medical Mission to Russia
John Franklin Enders, 4/25/1958
Comments on the Cytopathogenicity of Viruses
Dr. Solomon Fabricant, 4/25/1958
The Problem of Severe Business Contractions
Dr. Caryl P. Haskins, 4/25/1958
The Mosaic Mind
Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr., 4/25/1958
Can Viruses be Managed?
Robert M. MacIver, 4/25/1958
Rights and Obligation of the Scholar
Dr. Paul C. Mangelsdorf, 4/25/1958
Reconstructing the Ancestor of Corn
Robert R. McMath, 4/25/1958
Solar Spectroscopy with a Vacuum Spectrograph
Henry A. Moe, 4/25/1958
Dinner Speaker
Dr. Henri M. Peyre, 4/25/1958
Albert Camus, An Anti-Christian Moralist
Joseph Stokes, Jr., 4/25/1958
Repeated Plasmapheresis in the Same Person-A Rationale for Modern Bloodletting
Dr. George Wald, 4/25/1958
The Molecular Basis of Vision
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, 4/25/1958
The Optical Tracking of Artificial Earth Satellites
Dr. T. Robert S. Broughton, 4/26/1958
The Romanization of Spain: Some Considerations
Dr. Morris Duane, 4/26/1958
The Planning and Improvement of Educational Facilities
Carter Goodrich, 4/26/1958
The Gallatin Plan After One Hundred and Fifty Years
Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, 4/26/1958
A Study of Values in Five Cultures
Waldo G. Leland, 4/26/1958
Parson Weems, Traveling Salesman for Mathew Carey
Albert C. Baugh, 11/13/1958
Improvisation in the Middle English Romance
Dr. T. Robert S. Broughton, 11/13/1958
The Romanization of Spain: The Problem and the Evidence
Alfred V. Kidder, 11/13/1958
Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Lake Titicaca Basin
Dr. David B. Truman, 11/13/1958
The Presidency and Congressional Leadership: Some Notes on our Changing Constitution
Perry Miller, 11/14/1958
The Common Law and Codification in Jacksonian America
Bernadotte E. Schmitt, 11/14/1958
The First World War, 1914-1918, in Retrospect
Dr. George J. Stigler, 11/14/1958
Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, and the Fabian Critique of Capitalism
Harry Austryn Wolfson, 11/14/1958
Philosophical Implications of the Pelagian Controversy
Sir Wilfrid E Le Gros Clark, 4/23/1959
The Crucial Evidence for Human Evolution
I. Michael Lerner, 4/23/1959
The Concept of Natural Selection: A Centennial View
Curt Stern, 4/23/1959
Variation and Hereditary Transmission
Charles G. Darwin, 4/24/1959
Dinner speaker
Theodosius Dobzhansky, 4/24/1959
Variation and Evolution
Dr. Ernst Mayr, 4/24/1959
Isolation as an Evolutionary Factor
Dr. Norman D. Newell, 4/24/1959
The Nature of the Fossil Record
George G. Simpson, 4/24/1959
Anatomy and Morphology: Classification and Evolution: 1859-1959
Dr. George Ledyard Stebbins, 4/24/1959
The Role of Hybridization in Evolution
Dr. Emerson Greenaway, 11/11/1959
The Relation of Library Buildings to Library Functions
Henry A. Moe, 11/11/1959
Acceptance for the Society
Roy F. Nichols, 11/11/1959
Presentation of First Volume of the Franklin Papers to the American Philosophical Society
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 11/11/1959
From Medieval to Modern Libraries
Richard Harrison Shryock, 11/11/1959
The Library of the American Philosophical Society
George William Taylor, 11/11/1959
Labor Relations and the Public Interest
Arthur P. Whitaker, 11/11/1959
Humboldt and Latin American
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 11/13/1959
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The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers
Sir Ronald Syme, 11/13/1959
Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy
Edward Lawrie Tatum, 11/13/1959
Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Neurospora
Dr. Paul A. Weiss, 11/13/1959
Knowledge: A Growth Process


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