Past Meeting Speakers

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Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, 4/23/1970
The Next Industrial Revolution
Arthur P. Whitaker, 4/23/1970
Changing and Unchanging Interpretations of the Enlightenment in Spanish America
Dr. Carroll M. Williams, 4/23/1970
New Approaches to the Selective Control of Insects
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, 4/24/1970
The Role of Government Enterprise
Dr. Thomas Gold, 4/24/1970
The Nature of the Lunar Surface
Dr. Hans A. Krebs, 4/24/1970
The Goals of Science
Richmond Lattimore, 4/24/1970
Man and God in Homer
Harold C. Urey, 4/24/1970
A Review of the Evidence in Regard to the Structure of the Moon
Dr. Gerald J. Wasserburg, 4/24/1970
The Age of the Moon and the Lunar Surface
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, 4/24/1970
Physical Processes Near the Lunar Surface
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, 4/24/1970
Can the University Continue to be an Important Source of Scientific Research?
Curt F. Bühler, 4/25/1970
False Information in the Colophons of Incunabula
Dr. Thomas C. Cochran, 4/25/1970
Toward a Model for Social Change
Dr. Lee J. Cronbach, 4/25/1970
Mental Tests and the Creation of Opportunity
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 4/25/1970
The Story of Discovery
Dr. Lynn T. White, Jr., 4/25/1970
The Origin of the Coach
Dr. Brand Blanshard, 11/12/1970
The Revolt Against Reason in Theology
Julian P. Boyd, 11/12/1970
Did Jefferson Misquote Franklin-and from which Manuscript?
Dr. Wen C. Fong, 11/12/1970
How to Understand Chinese Painting
Gaylord P. Harnwell, 11/12/1970
An Environment for Learning
Professor George F. Kennan, 11/12/1970
The Historiography of the Youth of Stalin
Dr. Benjamin D. Meritt, 11/12/1970
Chronology of the Peloponnesian War
Dorothy S. Thomas, 11/12/1970
Some Differential Characteristics of Migrants and of Nonimigrants in Norway
Dr. Paul A. Freund, 11/13/1970
Organ Transplants: Legal and Ethical Issues
Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, 11/13/1970
Results of Organ Transportation
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/22/1971
Yacht Design: The State of the Art
Leonard Slater Cottrell, Jr., 4/22/1971
Covert Behavior in Interpersonal Interaction
Farrington Daniels, 4/22/1971
Utilization of Solar Energy-Progress Report
Sir John C. Eccles, 4/22/1971
Biological Evolution and Cultural Evolution
Dr. Cyril S. Smith, 4/22/1971
Metallurgical Footnotes to the History of Art
Professor Lawrence Stone, 4/22/1971
Queen Elizabeth I: A Reassement
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 4/23/1971
As Others Saw Us: The Society's Commentators and Imitators
Dr. Gerald E. Bentley, 4/23/1971
The Profession of the Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time
George Boas, 4/23/1971
The Retreat from Reason
Dr. Robert J. Braidwood, 4/23/1971
Interdisciplinary Delights-Prehistoric Investigations on Southwestern Asia
David Rockwell Goddard, 4/23/1971
The University and Intellectual Freedom
Shelmo Dov Goitein, 4/23/1971
Formal Friendships in the Medieval Near East
Frederick H. Harbison, 4/23/1971
Human Resources as the Wealth of Nations
Dr. Ernest R. Hilgard, 4/23/1971
Pain: Its Reduction and Production Under Hypnosis
Dr. Neal E. Miller, 4/23/1971
Learning by the Heart and Other Visceral Organs
George W. Corner, 4/24/1971
Secret Messenger: E.K. Kane Goes to Mexico, 1847
Dr. Lawrence R. Klein, 4/24/1971
War and American Economic Performance
Dr. Curt P. Richter, 4/24/1971
Behavioral Effects on Heavy Water on Mammals: With Special Reference to the 24-Hour Clock
Dr. John King Fairbank, 11/11/1971
A Chinese Look at Life in Shanghai of the 1880's
Dr. Felix Gilbert, 11/11/1971
The Brothers von Humboldt and the American Philosophical Society
Mark Kac, 11/11/1971
Some Facts and Fictions About Chance
Dr. George A. Miller, 11/11/1971
Lexical Memory
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 11/11/1971
On Some Aspects of Early Greek Astronomy
Dr. Ihor Sevcenko, 11/11/1971
The Overconfident Scholar, or Who Wrote the So-Called Fragments of Toparcha Gothicus?
Maurice B. Visscher, 11/11/1971
The Newer Antivivisectionists
Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb, 11/12/1971
A Metric America; A Decision Whose Time Has Come
Dr. Franklin L. Ford, 11/12/1971
Dimensions of Toleration: Costello, Bodin, Montaigne
Dr. Milton Friedman, 11/12/1971
Monetary Policy
Dr. Edgar P. Richardson, 11/12/1971
The Muses and the Museum
Dr. Robert V. Roosa, 11/12/1971
The New Service State: The Emerging Role of the United States in the International System of Trade and Capital Movements
George William Taylor, 11/12/1971
Competition in Product and Labor Markets
W. Norman Brown, 4/20/1972
Duty as Truth in Ancient India
Dr. Theodore H. Bullock, 4/20/1972
Looking at the World Through Another Sense: Active and Passive Electroreception in Animals
Dr. Murray B. Emeneau, 4/20/1972
Ritual Structure and Language Structure of the Todas
Dr. Mabel L. Lang, 4/20/1972
War and the Rape-motif, or Why did Cambyses Invade Egypt?
Albert L. Lehninger, 4/20/1972
Mitochondria, Calcium, and Crustaceans: An Adventure in Cell Physiology
Dr. Meyer Howard Abrams, 4/21/1972
Coleridge's "A Light in Sound": Science and the Poetic Imagination
Dr. Walter H. Munk, 4/21/1972
Venice Hologram
Dr. Carl Nordenfalk, 4/21/1972
Indoor-Outdoor: Some Thoughts on a Spatial Problem in European Art
Dr. Frederick A. Pottle, 4/21/1972
Wordsworth in the Present Day
Sir Ronald Syme, 4/21/1972
Lawyers in Government: The Case of Ulpian
Louis Booker Wright, 4/21/1972
Life in a Relatively Innocent Era
Dr. Konrad B. Krauskopf, 4/22/1972
A Geochemical Riddle: The Origin of Ore Deposits
Dr. Marshall H. Stone, 4/22/1972
Psychological Aspects of Mathematics
Dr. Eric A. Blackall, 11/9/1972
Shakespeare as Viewed by a Swiss Peasant of the Eighteenth Century
Sir Christopher C. Booth, 11/9/1972
Doctors from the Yorkshire Dales
Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, 11/9/1972
Darwin and the Learned Societies: The Reception of the Origin of Species by the British Learned Societies, 1859-1876
Leslie C. Dunn, 11/9/1972
Xenia and the Origins of Genetics
George M. A. Hanfmann, 11/9/1972
Personality and Portraiture in Ancient Art
Dr. Henry M. Hoenigswald, 11/9/1972
The Long, and Short of it. (The linguistic foundations of quantitative meter)
Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, 11/9/1972
Weight Gain, Growth and Development Induced in Man by the Intravenous Administration of Pure Chemicals
Dr. Frank Moore Cross, Jr., 11/10/1972
The Olden Gods in Ancient Near Eastern Creation Myths
Dr. Donald R. Griffin, 11/10/1972
Orientation of Migrating Birds in Cloud
Dr. James Gilbert Baker, 4/19/1973
Applied Catadioptric Designs for Large Astrometric Telescopes
Dr. Bryce Crawford, Jr., 4/19/1973
Distorted Molecules
Dr. Paul J. Kramer, 4/19/1973
Forty Years of Research on Plant Water Relations
Dr. Norman D. Newell, 4/19/1973
Special Creation and the Fossil Record of Life
Dr. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 4/19/1973
National Sovereignty and International Monetary Cooperation
Dr. Margaret Thompson, 4/19/1973
A Hoard of Greek Coins from Thessaly
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, 4/20/1973
From Copernicus to Kepler: Heliocentrism as Model and as Reality
Dr. George W. Mackey, 4/20/1973
Group Theory and its Significance for Mathematics and Physics
Dr. Meyer Schapiro, 4/20/1973
An Experiment with Forms in Hiberno-Saxon Art
Dr. Charles P. Slichter, 4/20/1973
Probing Condensed Matter with Nuclear Magnetism
Dr. Noel M. Swerdlow, 4/20/1973
The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus's Planetary Theory
Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang, 4/20/1973
Crime as a Birth Cohort
Dr. John T. Bonner, 4/21/1973
Size and Living Form
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/21/1973
Brain Bioenergetics
Dr. Walle Jetze Harinx Nauta, 4/21/1973
Some Recent Thoughts about Man's Frontal Lobe
Wilder G. Penfield, 4/21/1973
The Place of Understanding: A Discussion of the Brain and the Mind
Dr. Eliot Stellar, 4/21/1973
Brain Mechanisms in Hunger and other Hedonic Experience
Mr. Silvio A. Bedini, 11/8/1973
Jefferson and His Correspondence
Dr. Norman Hackerman, 11/8/1973
Metal Passivity
Dr. John N. Hazard, 11/8/1973
Law as an Instrument for Socializing and Desocializing an African State: The Case of Mali
Dr. Peter C. Nowell, 11/8/1973
Chromosomes and Cancer
Robert Lee Wolff, 11/8/1973
The Hand of God and the Ark of the Covenant on the Upper Loire
Dr. Thomas C. Cochran, 11/9/1973
Some Factors in American Economic Growth
Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, 11/9/1973
Smallpox: Is Eradication Imminent?
Dr. Frank A. Beach, 4/18/1974
Sex Hormones and Sex Differences in the Brain
Dr. M. Alison Frantz, 4/18/1974
Pagan Philosophers in Christian Athens
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 4/18/1974
The Growth of Physics in the United States
Dr. John R. Schrieffer, 4/18/1974
A New Schema for Entropy
Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, 4/19/1974
Tacit Assumptions in Fundamental Particle Physics
Dr. Robert R. Wilson, 4/19/1974
A New Look at the Proton
Dr. Alex Inkeles, 4/20/1974
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
Dr. Floyd Ratliff, 4/20/1974
On the Pschophysiological Base of the Berlin-Kay Color Terms
Dr. Emily Townsend Vermeule, 4/20/1974
The "Mound of Darkness" in Cyprus
Dr. Ward H. Goodenough, 11/14/1974
On the Origin of Matrilineal Clans: A "Just So" Story
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 11/14/1974
Sr.,
Hummingbirds: Why No Larger; Why No Smaller
Dr. Gerhart B. Ladner, 11/14/1974
Justinian's Theory of Law and the Leges Barbarorum
Rensselaer W. Lee, 11/14/1974
Names on Trees: Ariosto in Art
Dr. Robert A. Nisbet, 11/14/1974
Turgot and the Context of Progress
Dr. James B. Pritchard, 11/14/1974
The Shrines of Tanit Ashtart at Sarepta
Dr. Mildred Cohn, 11/15/1974
Protein Conformation and Biological Regulation
Myron P. Gilmore, 11/15/1974
The Berensons and Villa I Tatti
Dr. Michael H. Jameson, 11/15/1974
Heracles at Tiryns: Frink and Democracy
Dr. Arthur B. Pardee, 11/15/1974
Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 4/24/1975
I. Minis Hays, Secretary, Librarian, and Benefactor of the Society
Dr. David Bodian, 4/24/1975
Poliomyelitis and the Source of Useful Knowledge
Dr. Leon N. Cooper, 4/24/1975
A Problem of Knowledge in the Quantum Theory
Dr. Ragnar Granit, 4/24/1975
Adaptability of the Nervous System in Relation to Chance, Purposiveness and Causality
Dr. Benjamin D. Meritt, 4/24/1975
Perikles, the Athenian Mint, and the Hephaisteion
Dr. Helen B. Taussig, 4/24/1975
Development of the Blalock-Taussig Operation and the Results Twenty Years Later
Dr. Harvey Brooks, 4/25/1975
Expertise and Politics-Problems and Tensions
Ms. Marian Wright Edelman, 4/25/1975
On Effective Child Advocacy
Mr. Paul Mellon, 4/25/1975
The National Gallery of Art: An American Experiment
Dr. Charles A. Fleming, 4/26/1975
Adaptive Radiation of Cicadas in New Zealand
Dr. John R. Pierce, 4/26/1975
Energy and Automobiles
Dr. Rene Wellek, 4/26/1975
Literary Criticism as Evaluation
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, 4/26/1975
Comet Kohoutek in Retrospect
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, 11/13/1975
Twenty-five Years of the National Science Foundation
Dr. Franklin L. Ford, 11/13/1975
Assassination in the Eighteenth Century: The Dog That Did Not Bark in the Night
Dr. Paul Oskar Kristeller, 11/13/1975
The Search for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Donald H. Menzel, 11/13/1975
The Origin of the Constellations
Dr. Ruth Patrick, 11/13/1975
Factors Affecting the Formation and the Maintenance of Diatom Communities
Dr. Speros Vryonis, Jr., 11/13/1975
Byzantium and Byzantinists
Mr. Edwin Wolf II, 11/13/1975
Chestnut Street, The Metamorphosis of a Rialto
Dr. James D. Ebert, 11/14/1975
The Quest for the "Organizer" 1924-1974
Dr. Roland M. Frye, 11/14/1975
Milton and the Visual Arts
Dr. Walter O. Roberts, 11/14/1975
Climate Change and the Quality of Life for Earth's New Millions
Dr. Charles C. Gillispie, 4/22/1976
The Liberating Influence of Science in History
Archibald MacLeisch, 4/22/1976
Bicentennial of What?
Dr. Robert R. Palmer, 4/22/1976
European Enlightenment in its American Setting
Dr. Joseph R. Strayer, 4/22/1976
Medieval Origins of the Rule of Law
Sir Ronald Syme, 4/22/1976
Greek and Roman Concepts of Liberty
Dr. Gerald Gunther, 4/23/1976
The New Constitution-Framing and Implementation
Dr. Harry W. Jones, 4/23/1976
The Articles of Confederation and the Creation of a Federal System
Dr. Edmund S. Morgan, 4/23/1976
Debate over the Nature of Government
Dr. Edgar P. Richardson, 4/23/1976
George Washington: The Evidence of the Portraits
Rene Jules Dubos, 4/24/1976
Adaptation to the Future
David Eli Lilienthal, 4/24/1976
The Rebirth of a Nation
Dr. Joseph S. Fruton, 11/11/1976
Some Aspects of Biochemical Catalysis
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 11/11/1976
Pitfalls in Elementary Statistics
Mr. Crawford H. Greenewalt, 11/11/1976
Sr.,
The Energetics of Animal Locomotion-Is Small Size Really Disadvantageous?
Dr. Cyril S. Smith, 11/11/1976
Change in Hierarchical Structure: A Universal Metaphor?
Dr. Marshall H. Stone, 11/11/1976
The Anatomy of Mathematics
Shields Warren, 11/11/1976
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Thirty years After
Dr. John King Fairbank, 11/12/1976
American Intervention and the Chinese Revolution
Dr. John Rupert Martin, 11/12/1976
Van Dyck as History Painter: The Mocking of Christ
Dr. Victor A. McKusick, 11/12/1976
Genetic Studies of the Amish
John Horace Parry, 11/12/1976
Juan de Tovar and the History of the Indians
Dr. Dwight H. Perkins, 11/12/1976
Economics and Technology in United States-China Relations
Dr. Frank Press, 11/12/1976
Scholarly Exchange with the People's Republic of China-Recent Experience
Dr. Robert F. Bacher, 4/21/1977
Some Comments on Our Engergy Problem
Dr. David E. Pingree, 4/21/1977
Indian Astronomy
Dr. Simon Ramo, 4/21/1977
On a Scientific Approach to Future Predictions
Dr. Calvert Watkins, 4/21/1977
"Let us now praise famous cereals": Indo-European Linguistics and Religion in Homeric and Indo-Iranian Grain Vocabulary
Dr. Harry W. Jones, 4/22/1977
Barristers and Birds
Dr. Martin D. Kamen, 4/22/1977
Natural History of an Ancient Protein
Dr. Linus C. Pauling, 4/22/1977
Ascorbic Acid and Cancer
Dr. Edward C. Carter II, 4/23/1977
Between Science and Art: The Engineering and Architectural Career of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1785-1820
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, 4/23/1977
The Celestial Spheres in the Sixteenth Century
Dr. Seymour S. Kety, 4/23/1977
Evidence Bearing on the Operation of Genetic Factors in Schizophrenia
Dr. Bernard Lewis, 4/23/1977
Problems in Translating from Arabic
The Honorable Joseph S. Clark, 11/10/1977
Disarmament: International Accord on World War III?
Wesley Frank Craven, 11/10/1977
On the Writing of a Biographical Dictionary
Prof. Freeman J. Dyson, 11/10/1977
Pilgrim Fathers, Mormon Pioneers and Space Colonists: an Economic Comparison
Dr. Verner E. Suomi, 11/10/1977
Computer Aided Views of Earth and Venus Weather
Dr. Frank H. Westheimer, 11/10/1977
Photoaffinity Labeling: Marking the Receptors for Biologically Active Molecules
Sir Christopher C. Booth, 11/11/1977
The Mistress of Harpur Street
Richard Ettinghausen, 11/11/1977
The Treatment of the Horror Vacui in Islamic Art
Dr. Solomon Fabricant, 11/11/1977
Technological Change and Unemployment
Robert M. Lumiansky, 11/11/1977
The US-USSR Commission on the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Dr. John T. Bonner, 4/12/1978
The Biological Basis of Culture
Dr. Luna B. Leopold, 4/20/1978
The Meanders of the Grand Canyon Region
Dr. Salvador E. Luria, 4/20/1978
Slippery When Wet, Being an Essay on Science, Technology, and Responsibility
Dr. Philip Morrison, 4/20/1978
Powers of Ten: Theory Made Vivid
Dr. Vernon B. Mountcastle, Jr., 4/20/1978
The Mind's Eye-Brain Mechanisms for Directed Attention
Dr. Lucian Pye, 4/20/1978
The Use of Aesopian Language in Chinese Politics
Dr. Walter O. Roberts, 4/20/1978
Solar Activity and the Weather
Dr. Emil L. Smith, 4/20/1978
The Evolution of an Enzyme and its Controls
Dr. Robert McC. Adams, 4/21/1978
Strategies of Maximization, Stability and Resilience in Mesopotamian Society, Settlement and Agriculture
Dr. William D. Hamilton, 4/21/1978
Approaches to a Superorganism
Dr. Bert Hölldobler, 4/21/1978
Territorial Wars in Ants
Dr. Richard D. Keynes, 4/21/1978
Darwin and the Beagle
Dr. Edward O. Wilson, 4/21/1978
The Evolution of Caste Systems in Social Insects
Dr. Thomas N. Bisson, 4/22/1978
Some Characteristics of Mediterranean Territorial Power in the Twelfth Century
Dr. Lloyd W. Daly, 4/22/1978
John Philoponos and Greek Lexicography
Dr. Roland M. Frye, 4/22/1978
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Skulls
Dr. John Hope Franklin, 11/9/1978
Afro-American Biography: The Case of George W. Williams
Dr. H. Bentley Glass, 11/9/1978
The Roving Naturalist: Travelogues by Theodosius Dobzhansky
Dr. W. Bruce Hutchison, 11/9/1978
The Future of Canada
Dr. William J. Baumol, 11/10/1978
Some Basic Misunderstandings of Marxist Theory
Sumner McKnight Crosby, 11/10/1978
Excavations in the Royal Abbey Church of Saint-Denis: The Sequence of Buildings, A.D. 475-1151
Dr. John T. Edsall, 11/10/1978
The Diffusion of Chemistry and Physics into Biology: Studies in the Sources of a Scientific Revolution
Ignace J. Gelb, 11/10/1978
Family and Household in Mesopotamia of the Third Millennium B.C.
Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 4/19/1979
Experimental Mammary Cancer
Dr. William H. McNeill, 4/19/1979
What's Happening to European History in the United States?
Sir Rutherford N. Robertson, 4/19/1979
Molecular Powerhouses in Membranes
Charles Coleman Sellers, 4/19/1979
The Philosophical Peales
Dr. Robert H. Dicke, 4/20/1979
The Observational Foundations of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation
Dr. Joseph H. Greenberg, 4/20/1979
Types of Linguistic Models in Other Disciplines
Dr. Gerald Holton, 4/20/1979
Roads to the Relativistic Weltbild
Dr. Gerard Piel, 4/20/1979
On Promoting Useful Knowledge
Dr. Steven Weinberg, 4/20/1979
Einstein and the Physics of Today
Dr. John A. Wheeler, 4/20/1979
The Lesson of the Black Hole
Dr. Preston Cloud, 11/8/1979
The Improbable Bureaucracy: the United States Geological Survey, 1879-1979
Dr. Gordon A. Craig, 11/8/1979
The End of Prussia
Dr. Samuel N. Kramer, 11/8/1979
Sumerian Literature and the British Museum: The Promise of the Future
Professor Hans E. Mayer, 11/8/1979
America and the Crusades
Lord Solly Zuckerman, 11/8/1979
Science Advisers and Scientific Advisers
Dr. Clyde F. Barker, 11/9/1979
Transplantation of Islets of Langerhans
Dr. Richard L. Garwin, 11/9/1979
New Weapons, Old Doctrines: Strategic Warfare in the 1980's
Dr. Frederic Lawrence Holmes, 11/9/1979
Origins of the Krebs Cycle
Dr. Philip Morrison, 11/9/1979
Warfare Today: Limits to Growth
Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, 11/9/1979
The 'Aeterni Patris' of Leo XIII: 1879-1979


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