Thursday, December 2, 1999
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Speakers
 

William Calvin is a theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of both popular and learned books, including The Cerebral Code, How Brains Think, and, with the neurosurgeon George A. Ojemann, Conversations with Neil's Brain.

 

Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard and the Curator for Invertebrate Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His many books include The Panda's Thumb, The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life, Bully for Brontosaurus and Dinosaur in a Haystack.

 

Alan Lightman is John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. His publications include two novels, Einstein's Dreams and Good Benito, collections of essays and stories, and such books on science as Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe and (with R. Brawer) Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists.

 

Lester Thurow is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics in the Sloan School of Management at MIT. His books include The Zero Sum Society, Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America and The Future of Capitalism.

 

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