- Robert Weinberg
Robert Allan Weinberg is a Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at MIT and American Cancer Society Research Professor; his research is in the area of oncogenes and the genetic basis of human cancer. Weinberg is also affiliated with the Broad Institute and is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He co-teaches 7.012 (introductory biology) with Eric Lander.
- David Botstein
David Botstein (born 1942 in Switzerland) is an American biologist who has been the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University since 2003. He graduated from Harvard in 1963 and received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967. He then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became a Professor of Genetics. In 1990, he became Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University.
- Hillel Furstenberg
Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg is an Israeli mathematician. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods, to other areas including number theory and Lie groups. In 1977, he gave an ergodic theory reformulation, and subsequently proof, of Szemerédi's theorem. He was born in Berlin, in 1935, and soon emigrated to the US. In the Yeshiva University he concluded his BA and MSc studies in 1955. He obtained his Ph.
- Steven D. Tanksley
Steven D. Tanksley is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell University. Tanksley received a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Colorado State University in 1976 and a doctorate in genetics from the University of California-Davis in 1979. He joined the faculty at Cornell in 1985 as an associate professor of plant breeding, and became full professor in 1994.
- Somnath Bharadwaj
Somnath Bharadwaj is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology. Bharadwaj was born in India, studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and later received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science. After having worked at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, he is now at the Indian Institute of Technology, as an Associate Professor.
- David J. Lipman
David J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989 has been the Director of NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information) at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is the home of GenBank, the world's largest DNA sequence database, and PubMed, one of the most heavily used sites in the world for the search and retrieval of biomedical information. Dr.
- Elliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932 in Boston) is an eminent American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis. In particular, his scientific works pertain to: statistical mechanics (e.g., Bose gas sources), the quantum and classical many-body problem, the stability of matter, atomic structure, the theory of magnetism, and the Hubbard model.
- Joseph William Drexel
Joseph William Drexel (24 January, 1833 - March 25, 1888) was a banker, philanthropist, and partner of Baring Brothers in London and Rothschild et fils in Paris. He was the son of Francis Martin Drexel, and his siblings were Anthony Joseph Drexel and Francis Anthony Drexel. He attended the Philadelphia high school, and traveled through Spain, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece. He retired from business in 1876 and devoted his life to the philanthropic and civic organizations.
- Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at the molecular level. He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s.
- Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975.
- Ludvig Faddeev
Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev, also Ludwig Dmitriyevich (born on March 23, 1934 in Leningrad) is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of Faddeev-Popov ghosts and Faddeev equations. His work led to the invention of quantum groups. Faddeev was born in Leningrad to a family of mathematicians. His father, D.K. Faddeev, was a well known algebraist, …
- Roland Dobrushin
Roland Lvovich Dobrushin was a Russian mathematician and probability theorist who made important contributions to probability theory, point process theory, mathematical physics, and information theory. He received Ph.D. at Moscow State University where he was a student of Andrey Kolmogorov. He was a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europæa and US National Academy of Sciences.
- Hans Georg Dehmelt
Hans Georg Dehmelt is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work on ion traps, together with Wolfgang Paul. At the age of ten he was enrolled in the "Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster", a Latin school in Berlin, and was admitted on a scholarship. After graduating in 1940, he volunteered for service in the German army.
- Rodolfo Llinás
Rodolfo Llinás is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physicology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. He went to the Gimnasio Moderno school and received his MD from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá in 1959 and his PhD in 1965 from the Australian National University working under Sir John Eccles. Professor Llinás has published over 400 scientific articles.
- Jack Goody
Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he's an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are "Death, property and the ancestors" (1962), "The myth of the Bagre" (1972) and "The domestication of the savage mind" (1977).
- Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences; Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology; and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, at Stanford University. She is also Chair of The Natural Capital Project, a partnership among TNC, WWF, and Stanford, working to make conservation economically attractive and commonplace.
- William C. Clark
William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and co-directs the Sustainability Science Program and the Science, Environment and Development Group at Harvard ’s Center for International Development .
- Mario J. Molina
Mario J. Molina is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Molina received the Tyler Ecology & Energy Prize in 1983, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, and the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999.
- Jack Shonkoff
Jack Shonkoff, professor of human development and social policy at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, came to Australia and put the case that “no society could make a better investment than preschool for high-risk kids”. Dr Shonkoff is the author of a landmark paper for the US National Academy of Sciences that looked at the effects of disadvantage on children, drawing on the findings of about 1800 studies.
- Peter Raven
Dr. Raven, who received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University since 1971. He was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is the chairman of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration.
- Todd Litman
Todd Litman, founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, will discuss the economic benefits of creating spaces that favor walking and biking over driving.
- Sheila Leatherman
Professor Sheila Leatherman , Principal Investigator Sheila is a Research Professor in the School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Visiting Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Distinguished Associate of Darwin College at the University of Cambridge.
- John P. Peeters
John P. Peeters , Ph.D, Founder and President, Gentag ( Presentation Download ) Dr. Peeters is the founder of Gentag, Inc. He is an expert on biomarkers, sensors and nanotechnologies and has worked at or in collaboration with several of the US National Laboratories, the US Government, the US National Academy of Sciences and the United Nations.
- Gus Nossal
Sir Gus' influence has formed and shaped the scientific affairs of Australia for three decades, and continues to do so.
- Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Bodmer , one of our founding trustees
- Janet Thornton
Janet Thornton 's contributions certainly fall into all three of these categories. Janet first began to collect information about protein structures when she joined the laboratory of David Phillips in Oxford in the 1970s. In 1980 she moved to work in Tom BlundellÍs department at Birkbeck College, London. During this time, she wrote many programmes to analyse several aspects of protein structures, and she developed a hierarchical system of protein structure classification.
- Nikos Passas
Dr. Passas, Professor, Northeastern University College of Criminal Justice. Nikos Passas is Professor at Northeastern University. His law degree is from the University of Athens (LL.B.) , his Master's from the University of Paris-Paris II (D.E.A.) and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Athens Bar (Greece).
- Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson , for his work in genetics, molecular biology, and on chemical and biological agents. He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology; faculty chair, Chemical & Biological Weapons Studies at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and co-director, Harvard Sussex Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He is also an adjunct scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
- Eva L.J. Rosinger
Dr. Eva L.J. Rosinger Dr. Rosinger, scientist and engineer, is Deputy Director for Environment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. Over the past two decades, Dr. Rosinger has held line-management and advisory positions in the field of environment, and research and development.
- John Young
John Young , Ph.D. e-mail: jyoung@thelifelinegroup.org Dr. Young is a Director in The LifeLine Group™ and was one of three principal scientists involved in the development of the LifeLine software while he was at The Hampshire Research Institute and Hampshire Research Associates. Dr. Young was President of HRI/HRA, where he served as primary technical and managerial contact with sponsors. He conducted research, managing projects from initial proposal to final deliverable.
- Joseph R. Ecker
Dr. Joseph R. Ecker Joseph Ecker. Ph.D. is a Professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory and the Director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Ca. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and carried out postdoctoral studies with Ronald Davis at the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University.
- S. R. Kulkarni
S. R. Kulkarni ("Shri") is the McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology. Kulkarni’s research has focused on two areas: the death of stars and the search for extra-solar planets. He is currently the Director of the Caltech Optical Observatories and also serves as the Interdisciplinary Scientist for NASA's PlanetQuest mission. Kulkarni is member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
- Fred Hoyle
Hoyle often condemned the enormous social pressures that are brought to bear on scientists nowadays to conform. He sneered at the modern practices of peer review and science umpiring conducted by journals, declaring them to be an invitation to unconstructive conformism, an impediment to the progress of science. For expressing such forthright views, he was criticised by the scientific establishment and he made many enemies.
- John D. Baxter
Dr. Baxter serves as a member of many professional societies including the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, the American Federation for Clinical Research, and the US National Academy of Sciences. He also has presided on the editorial boards for many journals including the American Journal of Hypertension, the American Journal of Medicine, and the Annual Review of Medicine.
- M. S. Swaminathan
Prof. M. S. Swaminathan Prof. M. S. Swaminathan holds the UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India. A plant geneticist by training with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, Prof. Swaminathan's contributions to the agricultural renaissance of India have led to his being widely referred to as the scientific leader of the Green Revolution movement.
- Rick Roush
Rick Roush , PhD. - Science Advisory Board Director of the UC system wide IPM (integrated pest management) program and acting Director of the Sustainable Ag Research and Education (SARE) Program for the UC system. Rick earned his Ph.D. in entomology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. Before joining the University of Adelaide in 1995, Roush was an associate professor at Mississippi State and Cornell Universities.
- Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow , Ph.D. Dr. Falkow is a world expert in cellular microbiology and microbial pathogenesis. He has published extensively and has received numerous awards for his achievements, including the Lifetime Achievement award from the American Society of Microbiology. Dr. Falkow is on the scientific advisory board of numerous successful biotechnology companies and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
- George B. Darling
George B. Darling, 1906-1995 George B. Darling served as Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) director from 1957 to 1972. He was a professor of human ecology at Yale University at the time of his recruitment by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
- Jim Peacock
Dr Jim Peacock was appointed Australian Chief Scientist in March 2006. Dr Peacock is an outstanding scientist with a record of academic excellence and is highly respected by the science, engineering and technology community. Dr Peacock is an award winning molecular biologist and fervent science advocate. He is recognised internationally as an eminent researcher in the field of plant molecular biology and its applications in agriculture.
- Robert J. Aumann
Robert J. Aumann is a mathematical economist and professor of mathematics and economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aumann has taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1956. He has been one of the leaders in revolutionizing economics and other social sciences by expanding their analysis to issues of strategies, coalitions and information.