Schedule

“The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.”

October 29 - 30, 2007

October 29, 2007, 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m.

Mary Jo Nye - Session Chair, "Scientists and Textbooks” Watch Video
Michael Gordin - “Periodicity, Priority, Pedagogy: Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer” Read Abstract Watch Video
Ana Simões - “Textbooks as Manifestos: C. A. Coulson after Linus Pauling and R. S. Mulliken” Read Abstract Watch Video
Ken Krane - “Making a Modern Physics Textbook: The Collision of Full-Time Commitments” Read Abstract Watch Video

October 29, 2007, 2:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.

Cliff Mead - Session Chair, "Popular and Public Science” Watch Video
Bassam Shakhashiri - “On Bonding with the Public” Read Abstract Watch Video
Robert Anderson - “Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public” Read Abstract Watch Video
Stephen Lyons - “Bringing Chemistry to Prime Time” Read Abstract Watch Video
Dudley Herschbach - “Linus Pauling as an Evangelical Chemist” Read Abstract Watch Video

October 30, 2007, 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m.

Chris Petersen - Session Chair, "The Scientist as Public Citizen” Watch Video
Tom Hager - “The Scientist as Celebrity: Pauling, The Media, and the Bomb” Read Abstract Watch Video
Lawrence Badash - “Science in the McCarthy Period: Training Ground for Scientists as Public Citizens” Read Abstract Watch Video
Warren Washington - “The Evolution of Global Warming Science: From Ideas to Scientific Facts” Read Abstract Watch Video
Jane Lubchenco - “Advocates for Science: The Role of Academic Environmental Scientists” Read Abstract Watch Video
Chris Petersen, Tom Hager, Lawrence Badash, Warren Washington, Jane Lubchenco - “Panel Discussion of Session III Topics” Read Abstract Watch Video