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Science Talk Featured Speakers

These speakers may charge a fee for their services. Please contact Ginger Pinholster (202-326-6440 or gpinhols@aaas.org) for more information.

Peter C. Agre, President of AAAS; Nobel-prize winning expert on malaria and protein chemistry; Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Rosina Bierbaum: Expert on environmental policy and management, especially global climate change; Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

Floyd E. Bloom: Expert on pharmacology, neuroscience; Chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla.

Sidney D. Drell: Expert on technical issues of national security and arms control, including related ethical issues, and the obligations of scientists as a community; Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University.

Shirley Ann Jackson: Expert on optical physics; theoretical, quantum, and solid-state physics, and more; physicist and president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Leon M. Lederman: Nobel-prize winning expert on physics and education; internationally renowned high-energy physicist and Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS, and Executive Publisher of the journal Science; serves as the Association's primary spokesperson on issues related to teaching evolution, cloning, science for society, international research, and more.

James J. McCarthy: Expert on global climate change; marine ecology; environmental science and policy; Board Chair of AAAS and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University.

Peter H. Raven: Expert on environmental issues, ecology, botany, and more; one of the world's leading botanists, described by Time magazine as a "Hero for the Planet," and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Robert C. Richardson: Nobel-prize winning expert on physics, low temperature, quantum fluids and solids; Professor, Low Temperature Physics at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid Physics at Cornell University.

Robert Sapolsky: Expert on systems/behavioral neuroscience, cellular neurobiology, molecular neurobiology; author of the well-known book, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping (Freeman 1994, second edition 1998), and Professor of Biological Sciences and Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine.


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