April 2005
Thursday, April 28
APS on-line membership directory
Nora Monroe and Nanette Holben
Symposium: Discovery And Invention In Contemporary Chemistry
Frank H.T. Rhodes, Vice President, in the Chair
Jerrold Meinwald
Using Deadly Cone Snails to Understand Nervous Systems
Baldomero (Toto) Olivera
Distinguished Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Nano Toys and Nano Art: How Fun and Beauty Inspire Chemical Creativity
Fraser Stoddart
Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences
University of California at Los Angeles
Discovery of New Compounds in Nature
Jon Clardy
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Inventing Complexity From Molecules to Bubbles
George M. Whitesides
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
Harvard University
Jerrold Meinwald
Friday, April 29
20th and 21st Century Climate Change
Warren M. Washington
Senior Scientist
The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Earthquake Prediction: A Gambler's Game
Thomas H. Jordan
University Professor and Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center
University of Southern California
Howard C. Berg
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Treasure Revealed: 260 Years of Collecting at The American Philosophical Society
Sue Ann Prince
Director, Museum Exhibitions & Collections
The American Philosophical Society
Found in Translation: Travels Between Languages
Michael Wood
Professor of English
Princeton University
Mark Twain's Humor - With Examples
Robert Middlekauff
Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Emeritus Department of History
University of California at Berkeley
Identity and the Violence of Illusion
Amartya Sen
Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Harvard University
Saturday, April 30
Newtonianism for Ladies: Science in the Mirror of Enlightenment Society
Paula Findlen
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History
Stanford University
Life in Common and Russian Ideas About Freedom
Caroline Humphrey
Professor of Asian Anthropology
Cambridge University
Atomic Weapons (November 16, 1945)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
California Institute of Technology
Living with Nuclear Weapons: Fifty Years and Counting
Richard L. Garwin
IBM Fellow Emeritus
T.J. Watson Research Center