Past Meeting Speakers

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Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, 4/27/2000
A Different View of the DNA Double Helix: A Conduit for Charge Transport
Dr. Sheila E. Blumstein, 4/27/2000
When Words Betray Us: A Perspective on the Neurobiology of Language
Dr. Ralph E. Gomory, 4/27/2000
Swing Industries and Productivity Conflict in International Development
Dr. Hilary Putnam, 4/27/2000
Philosophy Seen
Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 4/28/2000
Vignettes of the Philosophers
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, 4/28/2000
Why Make Fakes
Dr. Thomas N. Mitchell, 4/28/2000
Roman Republicanism--The Underrated Legacy
Dr. Helen F. North, 4/28/2000
Symposium: Rome: The Tide of Influence
Dr. Michael C. J. Putnam, 4/28/2000
The Ambiguity of Art in Virgil's Aeneid
Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, 4/28/2000
Nuclear Energy & the Greenhouse Effect
Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, 4/28/2000
Do We Learn to See? Nature & Nurture
Dr. Roger S. Bagnall, 11/10/2000
Alexandria: Library of Dreams
Dr. Glen W. Bowersock, 11/10/2000
Symposium Moderator: The Great Libraries
Dr. Joseph Connors, 11/10/2000
The Libraries of Baroque Rome
Dr. John E. Dowling, 11/10/2000
Fishing for Novel Genes
Dr. Patricia Albjerg Graham, 11/10/2000
Educational Reform: Why Now?
Dr. Don L. Anderson, 11/11/2000
Earth: The Inside Story
Dr. Luna B. Leopold, 11/11/2000
Symposium Moderator: The Earth in AD 2000
Dr. Erling Norrby, 11/11/2000
A Century of Nobel Prizes
Dr. Claudio Vita-Finzi, 11/11/2000
Symposium Moderator: The Earth in AD 2000
Dr. Markley G. Wolman, 11/11/2000
The Human Impact
Dr. Hatten S. Yoder, Jr., 11/11/2000
Geology: Significant Component of New Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dr. Helen H. Vendler, 4/25/2001
Matter on Various Length Scales: Poetry
Dr. Glen W. Bowersock, 4/26/2001
Symposium Moderator: European Culture Between Greek and Maori
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 4/26/2001
Ancient Greek Religion
Dr. John G. A. Pocock, 4/26/2001
The Uniqueness of Aotearoa
Dr. Christoph Wolff, 4/26/2001
Defining Genius: Early Reflections of J.S. Bach's Self-Image
Sir Tony Wrigley, 4/26/2001
Symposium Moderator: Malthus
Dr. Sydney Brenner, 4/27/2001
Darwin's Theory in the New Millennium
Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, 4/27/2001
Darwin and the Copley Medal
Lord May of Oxford, 4/27/2001
Symposium Moderator: Matter on Various Length Scales
Dr. Ernst Mayr, 4/27/2001
The Philosophical Foundation of Darwinism
Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes, 4/27/2001
Symposium Moderator: Charles Darwin
Dr. James H. Billington, 4/28/2001
Humanizing the Information Revolution
Miss Anne d'Harnoncourt, 4/28/2001
Musings on Museums in the New Millennium
Dr. Martin Meyerson, 4/28/2001
Symposium Moderator: A Quartet of American Institutions: Their Contributions and Their Concerns
Ms. Rebecca W. Rimel, 4/28/2001
Charity and Strategy: Philanthropy's Evolving Role
Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, 4/28/2001
Social Benefits of a Successful Biomedical Research Company: Merck
Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, 11/9/2001
Symposium Moderator: Astrobiology: The Study of the Origin and Distribution of Life on Earth and in the Universe
Dr. Richard D. Keynes, 11/9/2001
From Bryozoans to Tsunami: Charles Darwin's Findings on the Beagle
Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 11/9/2001
Evolution of Infectious Disease
Dr. Seymour I. Schwartz, 11/9/2001
The Greatest Misnomer on Planet Earth
Dr. Frederic Lawrence Holmes, 11/10/2001
Memory and Reconstruction of Scientific Discoveries
Dr. Lawrence R. Klein, 11/10/2001
Symposium Moderator: Fiscal and Monetary Policy in an Economic Environment of Federal Budget Surpluses
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, 11/10/2001
Symposium Moderator: Cancer
Dr. Purnell W. Choppin, 4/25/2002
Symposium Moderator: High Energy Astrophysics
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, 4/25/2002
Bioterrorism: A Clear and Present Danger
Dr. Frank Press, 4/25/2002
Symposium Moderator: High Energy Astrophysics
Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., 4/25/2002
Symposium Moderator: High Energy Astrophysics
Dr. Joel E. Cohen, 4/26/2002
Mixing Apples and Oranges: Poetic Aspects of Applied Mathematics
Dr. Loren R. Graham, 4/26/2002
Russian Science: Recent Changes and the Impact of International Support
Dr. Gerard Piel, 4/26/2002
Symposium: Capital Punishment and the Administration of Justice
Dr. Larry R. Squire, 4/26/2002
Conscious and Nonconscious Memory Systems of Mammalian Brain
Mary, Viscountess Eccles, 4/27/2002
Julian Boyd and the Battlefield of Hastings
Dr. David D. Sabatini, 4/27/2002
The New England Contribution to the Argentine Educational System
Dr. Edward W. Said, 4/27/2002
Living with Conrad
Dr. Kirk Varnedoe, 4/27/2002
Why Modern Art Matters
Dr. Gerhard H. Böwering, 11/8/2002
Symposium Moderator: The Foundation of Islam: The Qur'An as the Voice of God
Dr. Gerhard H. Böwering, 11/8/2002
The Origins of the Qur'an as the Voice of God
Professor Michael A. Cook, 11/8/2002
The Voice of Honest Indignation is the Voice of God
Mr. John S. Reed, 11/8/2002
The Practice of Management
Sir Martin Rees, 11/8/2002
How Much Might We Ever Understand the Universe?
Dr. George F. Bass, 11/9/2002
Greek Shipwrecks of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.
Dr. Helen F. North, 11/9/2002
Symposium: Archaeology: New Techniques and Methods
Dr. Charles W. Rosen, 11/9/2002
The Ambiguity of Sentiment: Musical Expression in Triadic Tonality (1700-1900)
Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, 11/9/2002
Novel Neural Messengers
Dr. Gunther S. Stent, 4/24/2003
Paradoxes of Free Will
Dr. Clyde F. Barker, 4/25/2003
Symposium Moderator: Biomedical Advances, Experienced and Projected, During One Surgeon's Seven Decade Career
Mr. Philippe de Montebello, 4/25/2003
The Changing Landscape of Museums
The Honorable Louis H. Pollak, 4/25/2003
Marbury v. Madison: What Did John Marshall Decide and Why?
Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, 4/25/2003
Organ Transplantation: A Practical Triumph and Epistemologic Collapse
Dr. James C. Thompson, 4/25/2003
Surgical Research: Trepan to Transplant
Ms. Linda Greenhouse, 4/26/2003
"Because We Are Final"
Mr. Louis Henkin, 4/26/2003
John Marshall Globalized
The Honorable David H. Souter, 4/26/2003
Symposium Moderator: The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison
Dr. Robert McC. Adams, 11/14/2003
Contexts of Iraqi Looting
Dr. Barbara J. Grosz, 11/14/2003
Beyond Mice and Menus
Dr. Eytan Sheshinski, 11/14/2003
Policy Implications on Bounded Rationality
Dr. Brunilde Sismondo 11/15/2003
Ridgway,
The Study of Greek Sculpture in the 21st Century
Dr. Leon M. Lederman, 1/12/2004
The Future of High Energy Physics
Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes, 4/13/2004
Symposium Moderator: Science, Art & Knowledge, Practicing Natural History From the Enlightenment to the 21st Century
Dr. Edward O. Wilson, 4/22/2004
The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present and Future
William T. Coleman, Jr., Esq., 4/23/2004
Truths Which, Fortunately, Were Self-Evident
Dr. Seamus Heaney, 4/23/2004
Title Deeds: On Translating a Classic
Dr. Stanley N. Katz, 4/23/2004
What Does it Mean to Say that Philanthropy is "Effective"
Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, 4/23/2004
Brown v. Board of Education Overseas
The Honorable Louis H. Pollak, 4/23/2004
Symposium Moderator: 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Dr. Claudio Vita-Finzi, 4/23/2004
The Inconstant Sun
Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan, 4/24/2004
Privacy and the Constitution
Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan, 4/24/2004
Symposium Moderator: Privacy
Mr. Neil Armstrong, 11/12/2004
Reflections on Exploration
Dr. Martha C. Nussbaum, 11/12/2004
Disgust and the Law
Dr. Barbara B. Oberg, 11/12/2004
Symposium Moderator: Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination
Professor Paul Bernard, 11/13/2004
Afghanistan: The Destruction of an Archaeological Heritage
The Honorable Patricia M. Wald, 11/13/2004
Some Kudos and Some Concerns about International Courts
Dr. Markley G. Wolman, 11/13/2004
Symposium Moderator: Current Issues in Agriculture
Dr. Piotr Michalowski, 11/14/2004
Ancient Mesopotamia: An Antique Land and a Ravaged Past
Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne, 11/15/2004
Symposium Moderator: Virus Paleontology, Disease and Evolution
Dr. George M. Whitesides, 4/28/2005
Inventing Complexity From Molecules to Bubbles
Dr. Howard C. Berg, 4/29/2005
Marvels of Bacterial Behavior
Dr. Thomas H. Jordan, 4/29/2005
Earthquake Prediction: A Gambler's Game
Dr. Robert Middlekauff, 4/29/2005
Mark Twain's Humor - With Examples
Dr. Amartya K. Sen, 4/29/2005
Identity and the Violence of Illusion
Dr. Warren M. Washington, 4/29/2005
20th and 21th Century Climate Changes
Dr. Michael Wood, 4/29/2005
Found in Translation: Travels Between Languages
Dr. Richard L. Garwin, 4/30/2005
Living with Nuclear Weapons: Fifty Years and Counting
Professor Caroline Humphrey, 4/30/2005
Life in Common and Russian Ideas About Freedom
Dr. Fernando Nottebohm, 11/10/2005
Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, 11/10/2005
The Surprising Biology of Short RNA's
Dr. Victoria R. Bricker, 11/11/2005
Literary Continuities Across the Transformation from Maya Hieroglyphic to Alphabet Writing
Dr. Drew G. Faust, 11/11/2005
Counting the Dead: Historical Reflections on the Casuality List
Dr. Dwight H. Perkins, 11/11/2005
Chinese Development: A Contemporary Perspective
Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, 11/11/2005
It Depends on How We Look at Things: New Perspectives on the Postclassic Period in the Northern Maya Lowlands
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, 11/12/2005
Oceans, Climate, and Health: The Cholera Paradigm
Dr. Richard S. Dunn, 11/12/2005
The Contrast Between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865
Professor Judith Resnik, 11/12/2005
Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses


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