Past Meeting Speakers

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Don Cameron Allen, 4/21/1960
The Egyptians in China: An Eighteenth-century Linguistic Theory
Dr. John Bardeen, 4/21/1960
Superconductivity and Superfluidity
Dr. Jacques Barzun, 4/21/1960
The American College in Double Jeopardy
Hugh L. Dryden, 4/21/1960
Prospects for Space Travel
Hugh L. Dryden, 4/21/1960
Prospects for Space Travel
Thomas Francis, Jr., 4/21/1960
On the Doctrine of Original Antigenic Sin
Ralph Hayward Keniston, 4/21/1960
The Goals of Higher Education
Dr. Edwin H. Land, 4/21/1960
Color Vision and Its Implications for Inner Mechanisms of Objectivity
Dr. Wilbert E. Moore, 4/21/1960
The Corporation as a Welfare State
Dr. Willard Van Orman Quine, 4/21/1960
Variables Explained Away
Stanley Smith Stevens, 4/21/1960
The Growth of Sensation
James B. Conant, 4/22/1960
Certain Ambiguities in the Relationship Between School, College, and University
Ira S. Bowen, 4/23/1960
The First Decade of Observations with the Hale 200-Inch Telescope
Detlev W. Bronk, 4/23/1960
Scientific Research as an Individual Adventure
Dr. Britton Chance, 4/23/1960
Biology at the Molecular Level
Dr. Kenneth B. Raper, 4/23/1960
Levels of Cellular Interaction in Amoeboid Populations
Dr. Owsei Temkin, 4/23/1960
Science, Authority, and Experience in Medieval Medicine
Edwin B. Wilson, 4/23/1960
The Last Unpublished Notes of J. Willard Gibbs
Allen V. Astin, 11/10/1960
Extending Precision in Physical Measurement
Samuel Caldwell, 11/10/1960
Man's Written Communication
Dr. Milton Friedman, 11/10/1960
The Demand for Money
Dr. George Evelyn Hutchinson, 11/10/1960
Lago di Monterosi: A History
Ernst H. Kantorowicz, 11/10/1960
Gods in Uniform
Dr. George E. Uhlenbeck, 11/10/1960
Is There Direction in Time?
Dr. George Wald, 11/10/1960
Toward a Universal Biochemistry
Joseph H. Willits, 11/10/1960
Excellence and Mediocrity in a University
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, 11/10/1960
Medical Electronics: Promise and Challenge
Dr. Merle Curti, 11/11/1960
Tradition and Innovation in American Philanthropy
Dr. Solomon Fabricant, 11/11/1960
An Economist's View of Philanthropy
Henry A. Moe, 11/11/1960
Introduction to the Historical Origin of Philanthropy
Professor Paul A. Samuelson, 11/11/1960
The Economic Brownian Motion
The Honorable J. William 4/20/1961
Fulbright,
Penrose Lecture
Benno Landsberger, 4/20/1961
Observations of a Lexicographer on Classes and Class Consciousness in Sumero-Babylonian Society
Dr. Curt P. Richter, 4/20/1961
Biological Clocks
Charles S. Singleton, 4/20/1961
Dante's Retraction
A. Hugo T. Theorell, 4/20/1961
How Alcohol is Combusted in the Liver
Dr. John A. Wheeler, 4/20/1961
Einstein's Views of Space and Time: Present Status and Future Prospects
Dr. Carl Bridenbaugh, 4/21/1961
Church and State in America, 1689-1775
Denis W. Brogan, 4/21/1961
The Remote Revolution-a British View
Professor Jean-Baptiste 4/21/1961
Duroselle,
The American Civil War-An Episode in the History of Civil Wars
George B. Kistiakowsky, 4/21/1961
The Role of the Science Adviser to the President
Dr. Robert R. Palmer, 4/21/1961
The Kingdom of Corsica and the Science of History
Dr. Norman F. Ramsey, 4/21/1961
Atomic Hydrogen Maser
Dr. Joseph R. Strayer, 4/21/1961
The Promise of the Fourteenth Century
Dr. Kenneth V. Thimann, 4/21/1961
Autumn Leaves and Rose Petals: the Formation of Red Pigments in Plants
Dr. James Tobin, 4/21/1961
Capital Requirements of Economic Growth
Dr. Herbert Bloch, 11/9/1961
The Secret of the Bronze Doors of Monte Cassino
Van Wyck Brooks, 11/9/1961
Ernest Fenollona and Japan
Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, 11/9/1961
Intravenous Feeding-Its History and Present Status
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 11/9/1961
Lutheranism and the Turkish Peril
Dr. Samuel E. Thorne, 11/9/1961
Legal Education in Medieval England
Dr. Don K. Price, 11/10/1961
The Scientific Establishment
Dr. Murray B. Emeneau, 4/26/1962
Bilingualism
John F. Lewis, Jr., 4/26/1962
An Experiment in Intellectual Cooperation
Robert C. Murphy, 4/26/1962
Fish Shape Paumanok
Dr. Frederick A. Pottle, 4/26/1962
The Importance of Private Legal Documents in the Writing of Biography and Literary History
Dr. Roger Revelle, 4/26/1962
A New Look at Natural Resources
Dr. Herbert A. Simon, 4/26/1962
The Architecture of Complexity: Some Common Properties of Complex Systems
Dr. George F. Bass, 4/27/1962
A Bronze Age Shipwreck: Underwater Excavations in Turkey
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, 4/27/1962
The Place of Space
Richmond Lattimore, 4/27/1962
Why the Devil is the Devil
Dr. Harry Levin, 4/27/1962
Shakespeare Today
Louis Booker Wright, 4/27/1962
Shakespeare for Everyman
Dr. Raymond E. Zirkle, 4/27/1962
Radiation Beams of Subcellular Dimensions in Biological Research
Shields Warren, 4/28/1962
Safe Doses and Dose-Rates and Therapeutic or Protective Measures
Dr. Kenneth E. Boulding, 11/8/1962
The Misallocation of Intellectual Resources
Sir Hamilton Gibb, 11/8/1962
The Community in Islamic History
Erwin Panofsky, 11/8/1962
The Ideological Antecedents of the Rolls-Royce Radiator
Talcott Parsons, 11/8/1962
On the Concept of Political Power
Mr. David Rockefeller, 11/8/1962
The Changing Role of Business in our Society
Rodney Stuart Young, 11/8/1962
Gordion on the Royal Road
Dr. Derk Bodde, 4/18/1963
The Origins of Chinese Law
Dr. Harvey Brooks, 4/18/1963
Solid State Physics: What Is It and Where Is It Going?
Rene Jules Dubos, 4/18/1963
Science: Servant or Tyrant? (Logic and Choices in Science)
Dr. Thorkild Jacobsen, 4/18/1963
Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: The Central Concerns
Chester S. Keefer, 4/18/1963
Medical Care Services-Today and Tomorrow
Dr. Samuel N. Kramer, 4/18/1963
Cuneiform Studies and the History of Literature
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, 4/18/1963
Editing Private Correspondence
Dr. Saunders MacLane, 4/18/1963
Symmetry and Finite Simple Groups
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 4/18/1963
The Survival of Babylonian Methods in the Exact Sciences of Antiquity and Middle Ages
Ephraim A. Speiser, 4/18/1963
Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 4/19/1963
The Observatory on Center Square
Dr. Subrahmanyan 4/19/1963
Chandrasekhar,
The Case for Astronomy
Carl Hermann Kraeling, 4/19/1963
The Earliest Christian Church in the Orient (232 A.D.)
Dr. Philip Hauge Abelson, 4/20/1963
Organic Geochemistry
Gilbert Chinard, 4/20/1963
French Members of the American Philosophical Society
Richard Courant, 4/20/1963
Problems of Stability
Dr. Charles P. Smyth, 4/20/1963
Molecular Relaxation Times
Dr. Melvin Calvin, 11/14/1963
Atom to Adam
Dr. Marshall Clagett, 11/14/1963
Nicole Oresme and Medieval Scientific Thought
Ralph E. Cleland, 11/14/1963
The Evolutionary History of the North American Evening Primroses of the "Biennis Group"
Dr. Franz Rosenthal, 11/14/1963
Gifts and Bribes: The Muslim View
Dr. Herman H. Goldstine, 11/15/1963
Computers and Perception
Zay Jeffries, 4/23/1964
Gold
Dr. Julius Adams Stratton, 4/23/1964
Learning and Action
Dr. Chauncey G. Suits, 4/23/1964
Man-Made Diamonds - A Progress Report
Merle Fainsod, 4/24/1964
Soviet Youth and the Generation Problem
Dr. William Alfred Fowler, 4/24/1964
Massive Stars and Strong Radio Sources
Joel H. Hildebrand, 4/24/1964
The Use of Models in Physical Science
Ernest Nagel, 4/24/1964
Current Critiques of Science as a Cumulative Enterprise
Dr. Burrhus F. Skinner, 4/24/1964
"Man"
Dr. Zellig S. Harris, 4/25/1964
Transformational Structure of Language
Leonard Woods Labaree, 4/25/1964
Benjamin Franklin's British Friendships
Roy F. Nichols, 4/25/1964
Adaptation versus Invention as Elements in Historical Analysis
William J. Robbins, 4/25/1964
Topophysis, a Problem in Somatic Inheritance
Donald D. Van Slyke, 4/25/1964
The Gases of the Blood
William F. Albright, 11/12/1964
Two Neglected Factors in the Greek Intellectual Revolution
Dr. Alexander G. Bearn, 11/12/1964
Some Aspects of Human Genomes in Aboriginal Populations of Australia and New Guinea
Paul D. Foote, 11/12/1964
Government-Financed Research, Basic and Applied
Fritz Machlup, 11/12/1964
Why Economists Disagree
Donald H. Menzel, 11/12/1964
The Sun, Active and Quiet
Dr. Gilbert F. White, 11/12/1964
The Lower Mekong Experiment
Mr. John H. Gibbons, 11/13/1964
Background of the Symposium
Mr. John H. Gibbons, 11/13/1964
Temporary Substitutes for the Heart and Lung
Carl F. Cori, 4/22/1965
The Regulation of Energy Production During Muscular Work
George W. Corner, 4/22/1965
Apprenticed to Aesculapius: The American Medical Student, 1765-1965
Dr. Brooke Hindle, 4/22/1965
An Evaluation of David Rittenhouse's Scientific Work
Dr. Gerard Piel, 4/22/1965
The Treason of the Clerks
Dr. Thorsten Sellin, 4/22/1965
Penal Servitude: Source and Survival
Theodosius Dobzhansky, 4/23/1965
Mendelism, Darwinism, and Evolutionism
Leslie C. Dunn, 4/23/1965
Mendel: His Work and His Place in History
Dr. H. Bentley Glass, 4/23/1965
How Mendel's Elements Produce Their Effects
J. George Harrar, 4/23/1965
The Race Between Procreation and Food Production
Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, 4/23/1965
Creativity and Innovation
Dr. Gordon J. MacDonald, 4/23/1965
Dynamical History of the Earth-Moon System
Dr. Paul C. Mangelsdorf, 4/23/1965
Genetics, Agriculture, and the World Food Problem
Philip E. Mosely, 4/23/1965
Rediscovery of Social Science in the Soviet Union
Dr. Francis O. Schmitt, 4/23/1965
The Physical Basis of Life and Learning
Dr. Hugo F. Sonnenschein, 4/23/1965
Genetics, the Life Science, and Man's Vision
Curt Stern, 4/23/1965
The Development of Human Genetics
Alfred H. Sturtevant, 4/23/1965
The Early Memdelians
Dr. John T. Edsall, 4/24/1965
The Organization of Protein Molecules for Regulatory Processes in Biology
Dr. Fred R. Eggan, 4/24/1965
Lewis H. Morgan and the American Indian
Dr. C. Vann Woodward, 4/24/1965
Seeds of Failure in American Race Policy
William F. Albright, 11/11/1965
Neglected Factors in the Greek Intellectual Revolution
Dr. Morris Duane, 11/11/1965
Some Recent Developments in Educational Facilities
Dr. Herbert Friedman, 11/11/1965
Cosmic X-Rays
Millard Meiss, 11/11/1965
Sleep in Venice. Subject and Style in Renaissance Art
Dr. William J. Roach, 11/11/1965
Sequel to a Classic: Transformation of the Grail Theme in the Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval Romance
Dr. Charles W. Wagley, 11/11/1965
The Decimation of the Brazilian Indians
Shields Warren, 11/11/1965
Civil Defense-Fact or Fraud
Dr. Robert McC. Adams, 11/12/1965
Trend and Tradition in Near Eastern Archaeology
Dr. Machteld J. Mellink, 11/12/1965
Anatolia
Dr. Homer A. Thompson, 11/12/1965
The Classical World
Dr. Gordon Randolph Willey, 11/12/1965
New World Archeology in 1965
Dr. Gerald Holton, 4/21/1966
Einstein and the "Reality" of the Quantum
Dr. Thomas S. Kuhn, 4/21/1966
The Crisis of the Old Quantum Theory, 1922-1925
Dr. Samuel Lenher, 4/22/1966
"...Promoting Useful Knowledge"
Dr. Edmund S. Morgan, 4/22/1966
Puritan Hostility to the Theatre
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, 4/22/1966
Science, the Humanities and the Government-Partners in Progress
Richard Harrison Shryock, 4/22/1966
Introductory Comments on the Girard Papers Program
Dr. Kurt Weitzmann, 4/22/1966
The Mosaic in St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai
Glenn L. Jepsen, 4/23/1966
Evolution to Flight by Mammals
Dr. Harry W. Jones, 4/23/1966
Civil Disobedience
Wendell P. Woodring, 4/23/1966
The Panama Land Bridge as a Sea Barrier
Dr. Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 11/10/1966
J.P. Morgan as Collector
Lyman Henry Butterfield, 11/10/1966
Tending a Dragon Killer: A Sketch of the Life and Trials of Mrs. John Quincy Adams
Nelson Glueck, 11/10/1966
The Nabataean Zodiac of Khirbet Tannur
Dr. Stephan George Kuttner, 11/10/1966
A Canonist's Look at the Vinland Map
Dr. Ernst Mayr, 11/10/1966
The Theory of Phylogeny from the Scala Naturae to the Present
Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer, 11/10/1966
The Astronomical Tables of Mahadeva
Dr. Ansley J. Coale, 11/11/1966
The Voluntary Control of Human Fertility
Dr. E. Adamson Hoebel, 11/11/1966
The Character of Keresan Pueblo Law
Simon S. Kuznets, 11/11/1966
Population and Economic Growth
Dr. James B. Pritchard, 11/11/1966
The Sea Peoples: Some New Evidence from the Jordan Valley
Adolf A. Berle, 4/20/1967
The Laws of Power: An Approach to its Systematic Study
Dr. Katherine Esau, 4/20/1967
Minor Veins in Beta Leaves: Structure Related to Function
Esmond R. Long, 4/20/1967
Leprosy Today, as Seen by a Medical Editor
Dr. Louis B. Flexner, 4/21/1967
Dissection of Memory Storage Enhancement and Transfer
Dr. Philip M. Hauser, 4/21/1967
Lao-Tze, Confucius and the Conservative-Liberal Debate
Barnaby C. Keeney, 4/21/1967
The Humanities in American Society
Dr. Wassily Leontief, 4/21/1967
An Experiment in Adaptation of Economic Theory to Factual Quantitative Study of Economic Growth and Change
Dr. Neal E. Miller, 4/21/1967
Laws of Learning Relevant to its Biological Basis
John A. Wilson, 4/21/1967
The Nubian Campaign, An Exercise in International Archeology
Dr. Germaine Brée, 4/22/1967
Proust's Vision: Illiers or Ver Meer?
Dr. Hallowell Davis, 4/22/1967
Slow Electrical Responses of the Human Cortex
Alfred S. Romer, 4/22/1967
Argentina, Rhynchosaurs, Gomphodonts, Gondwanaland
Dr. Frederich Solmsen, 4/22/1967
The Greek Here-after in Virgil's Roman Epic
Joseph Stokes, Jr., 4/22/1967
Progress in Immunization Against Viral Diseases
William Feller, 11/9/1967
The Nature of Chance Fluctuation
Dr. Carl G. Hempel, 11/9/1967
On the Limits of Scientific Understanding
George C. Miles, 11/9/1967
The Knotted Colonette in Byzantine Art and Architecture
Dr. Paul A. Freund, 11/10/1967
Political Libel and Liberty of the Press
Dr. Walter Gellhorn, 11/10/1967
Poverty and Legality: The Law's Slow Awakening
Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 11/10/1967
Research Possibilities with a 120-inch Space Telescope
Dr. Arthur S. Link, 4/18/1968
Woodrow Wilson and the Study of Administration
Donald H. Menzel, 4/18/1968
The Moon as an Abode of Life?
Dr. Gordon A. Craig, 4/19/1968
Friedrich Schiller and the Police
Dr. Max F. Perutz, 4/19/1968
The Structure of Crystalline Proteins as Revealed by X-Ray Analysis: A Contribution of Physics to Biology
Alfred S. Romer, 4/19/1968
Fossils and Gondwanaland
Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf, 4/19/1968
The Concept of Elementary Particles
Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, 4/19/1968
Static or Mobile Earth: The Current Scientific Revolution
Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth, 4/20/1968
The Chaos of Our Urban Areas
Dr. Emil W. Haury, 4/20/1968
Early Farmers in the American Desert
Sir Arthur Lewis, 4/20/1968
World Trade Since the War
Donald H. Menzel, 11/14/1968
Venus Past and the Distance of the Sun
Polydore Swings, 11/14/1968
Venus Through a Spectroscope
Dr. Paul A. Weiss, 11/14/1968
(2 Greek words)-and so flow our nerves
Dr. Mildred Cohn, 11/15/1968
Nuclear Magnetism and Biological Macromolecules
Dr. Ward H. Goodenough, 11/15/1968
Social Organization
Mr. Howard C. Petersen, 11/15/1968
The Revolution in Aspirations
John Langdon Caskey, 4/24/1969
Crises in the Minoan-Mycenaean World
Professor Manfred Eigen, 4/24/1969
Elementary Steps of Information Transfer in Nucleic Acids
Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 4/24/1969
Transformation of Animal Cells
Dr. Kenneth M. Setton, 4/24/1969
Pope Leo X and the Turkish Peril
Dr. Ernst Kitzinger, 4/25/1969
World Map, and Fortunes Wheel: A Medieval Mosaic Floor
Dr. James Van Gundia Neel, 4/25/1969
The Feast: A Film Study of the Yanomam Tribe of Venezuela
Dr. Joseph J. Spengler, 4/25/1969
Kautilya, Plato, Lord Shang: Comparative Political Economy
Edward U. Condon, 4/26/1969
UFO's I Have Loved and Lost
Dr. Michael Heidelberger, 4/26/1969
Antigens, Antibodies, and Man
Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks, 4/26/1969
Dual Action of Phytochrome in Control of Plant Responses to Light
Dr. Donald F. Hornig, 4/26/1969
The Revolt Against Natural Science
Leslie C. Dunn, 11/13/1969
The Ancient Jewish Community (Old Ghetto) of Rome
Dr. Carl Kaysen, 11/13/1969
How Much Higher Education for Whom?
Dr. Horace M. Miner, 11/13/1969
Traditional Modernism Among Moroccan Weavers
Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, 11/13/1969
The Relationship between Science and Large Computers
Dr. Floyd Ratliff, 11/13/1969
Contour and Contrast
Gustave E. von Grunebaum, 11/13/1969
The Attitude of Classical Islam to Antiquity
Dr. Germaine Brée, 11/14/1969
Narrative Play in Gideon Fiction
Dr. Victor H. Brombert, 11/14/1969
Malraux: Poet of Violence and Destiny
Wallace Osgood Fenn, 11/14/1969
Life Under High Pressure
Dr. Henri M. Peyre, 11/14/1969
Paul Claudel as a Poet of Love
Horace C. Richards, 11/14/1969
Changes in Shore Line During the Past Million Years
Dr. William J. Roach, 11/14/1969
Francisque Michel: A Pioneer in Medieval Studies
Dr. Robin M. Williams, Jr., 11/14/1969
Social Conflict and Social Order


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