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Autumn Meeting: November 12 - 14, 2009

Benjamin Franklin Hall
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Discoveries in Astronomy

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
Introduction
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RONALD D. EKERS
Commonwealth (Australia) Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Symposium Moderator
2009: International Year of Astronomy
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OWEN GINGERICH
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Galileo’s Astonishing Discoveries
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MAARTEN SCHMIDT
California Institute of Technology
The Discovery of Quasars
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KENNETH I. KELLERMANN
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Symposium Moderator
Introduction
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ROBERT W. WILSON
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background
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MALCOLM LONGAIR
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
The Discovery of Pulsars and the Aftermath
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PURNELL W. CHOPPIN
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alexander G. Bearn: A Commemoration
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LOUIS M. KUNKEL
Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical Center
Transcription of Profiling in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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TITIA DE LANGE
The Rockefeller University
How Telomeres Solve the End-Protection Problem
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IAN T. BALDWIN
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Training a New Generation of Biologists: The Genome-Enabled Field Biologist
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JAY D. KEASLING
University of California at Berkeley
Engineering Biology for Drugs and Fuels
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MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
The University of Chicago
Seized by Eminent “Domaine:” The “Vinification” of Comestible Prestige
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FRANK H. STEWART
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Tribal Background to the Contemporary Arab World
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Richard A.F Penrose Lecture

JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Princeton University
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
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Inaugural APS Composition Competition Concert

KERRITH LIVENGOOD
CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC STUDENTS
Award Recipient and Composer
University of Pittsburgh
Persiflage
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Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture

GERHARD CASPER
Stanford University
A Young Man from “Ultima Thule” Visits Jefferson: Alexander von Humboldt in Philadelphia and Washington
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