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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
November 12-14, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia

AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING PROGRAM

Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:15 p.m.

Discoveries in Astronomy
Kenneth I. Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
and
Ronald D. Ekers, Commonwealth (Australia) Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Symposium Moderators

Galileo’s Astonishing Discoveries
Owen Gingerich
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Discovery of Quasars
Maarten Schmidt
California Institute of Technology

The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Robert W. Wilson
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Discovery of Pulsars and the Aftermath
Malcolm Longair
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University

Friday, November 13, 2009
9:15 a.m.

Alexander G. Bearn:  A Commemoration
Purnell W. Choppin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Moderator

Transcription of Profiling in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Louis M. Kunkel
Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical Center

How Telomeres Solve the End-Protection Problem
Titia de Lange
The Rockefeller University

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Training a New Generation of Biologists:  The Genome-Enabled Field Biologist
Ian T. Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Engineering Biology for Drugs and Fuels
Jay D. Keasling
University of California at Berkeley

Friday, November 13, 2009
1:15 p.m.

Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes

Richard A.F Penrose Lecture
Tried by War:  Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson
Princeton University

Inaugural APS Composition Competition Concert
Persiflage
Kerrith Livengood, Award Recipient and Composer
University of Pittsburgh
performed by
Curtis Institute of Music Students

Saturday, November 14, 2009
9:15 a.m.

Seized by Eminent “Domaine:”  The “Vinification” of Comestible Prestige
Michael Silverstein
The University of Chicago

The Tribal Background to the Contemporary Arab World
Frank H. Stewart
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture
A Young Man from “Ultima Thule” Visits Jefferson:  Alexander von Humboldt
 in Philadelphia and Washington
Gerhard Casper
Stanford University