Archive
Lecture Series – 2007
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Electricity in Biology
Roderick MacKinnon traces how scientists progressed from understanding electricity in physics to understanding processes like nerve impulses in animals.
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Metathesis and custom catalysts
Richard Schrock gives us a first hand account of discovering and developing catalysts for the metathesis reaction, which eventually earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Road to the Nobel Prize
Jerome Friedman describes what drove him to pursue his studies with passion, and his work on quarks for which he shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Measuring our Future in Science and Technology
John Hall describes the history and evolution of measurement standards, like the metre and second, from the Ancient Greeks' star gazing to the world's most accurate atomic clocks.
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Blind chance or intelligent design? The need for basic research.
Sheldon Glashow looks back into scientific history to show how science evolves through both carefully planned research and accidental findings.
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