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National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) Members' Lectures
(81 lectures from 37
members) |
| James A. Van
Allen |
The
University of Iowa (In memory) |
The Modern Saga of Planetary Exploration |
| Don L.
Anderson |
Caltech |
Eclogite Engine |
| George J.
Annas |
Boston
University |
American
Bioethics after Nuremberg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights |
| Francisco J.
Ayala |
University
of California, Irvine |
Biology to
Ethics: The Biological Roots of Morality
Darwin’s
Greatest Discovery: Design without Designer
Evolutionary
Origin and World Expansion of Malaria |
| ZDENĚK P.
BAŽANT |
Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois |
NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE
EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES
MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID
NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I
Part II
|
| R. Stephen
Berry |
The
University of Chicago |
Energy:
Mysterious and Amazing, Conserved and Conserving |
| Ronald
Breslow |
Columbia
University |
HYDROPHOBIC AND
ANTIHYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS ON ORGANIC REACTIONS |
| Shu Chien |
University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
Molecular Basis
of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells Part I
Part II |
| Samuel
Danishefsky |
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Biology -
Chemistry Frontier.Roger Adams Award Lecture |
| Arnold L. Demain* |
Drew
University, Madison |
Actinomycetes:
Contributions to Medicine |
| Renata
Dmowska |
Harvard
University, Cambridge |
Dynamics of
rupture through branched and offset fault systems |
| Stephen
J. Elledge* |
Harvard
Medical School |
Cell
Division. Part I
Part II
GENETICS IS A
STUDY OF HOW PROTEINS INTERACT, FOLD, AND FUNCTION. Part I
Part II |
| Nina V.
Fedoroff |
Pennsylvania
State University |
Plant Epigenetic
Mechanisms
Genetically
Modified Foods: Myths and Realities
Flattening the
World: The Role of Science and Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century |
|
Joseph Fraumeni |
National
Cancer Institute |
Genes
and the Environment in Cancer Causation
In Spanish
In Russian
|
| C. Randy
Gallistel |
Rutgers
Center for Cognitive Science |
An Information
Processing Perspective on Conditioning |
|
Gerson Goldhaber |
University of California at Berkeley and LBNL |
The Discovery
of Dark Energy |
|
Lawrence O. Gostin |
Georgetown University Law Center |
Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a
Framework Convention on Global Health |
| John
P. Holdren |
The
Woods Hole Research Center, Harvard University |
Science and
Technology for Sustainable Well-Being |
| Tony
Hunter |
The
Salk Institute |
Tyrosine
phosphorylation: from discovery to the kinome and beyond
ASBMB Tabor Lecture is
available also at
http://www469.pair.com/cammon/index.html
|
| H.R.
Kaback |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular Biology Institute, University of
California Los Angeles |
Inaugural lecture
Membrane
Potentials and pH Gradients in Microscopic Systems: The Chemiosmotic
Paradigm
Bioenergetics
Ofion-Coupled Active Transport
The Model
System: Preparation and Characterization of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles |
|
Charles F. Kennel |
Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego |
Earth
Observations: The View from Scripps |
| Sung-Hou
Kim |
University
of California, Berkeley |
A Global View of
the Protein Structure Universe and Protein Evolution |
|
Alexander
Leaf* |
Harvard
Medical School, Boston |
The
Beneficial Effects of Long-Chain, Polyunsaturated n-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids
on the Cardiovascular System. Part I
Part
II |
| Judith
Lean |
Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, DC |
Our
Home in Space: The Sun-Earth System |
| Wen-Hsiung
Li |
Ecology and
Evolution, University of Chicago |
Evolution by Gene
Duplication Part I
Part II |
| Elizabeth
F. Loftus* |
University
of California, Irvine, USA |
Illusions of
Memory and Loss of Justice
in Spanish |
|
A.I.Meyers |
Colorado
State University |
Chiral Oxazolines
- Their Legacy in Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation. Part I
Part II
|
| Alexandra
Navrotsky |
University
of California at Davis |
Energetics of
Nanomaterials and Zeolites |
| Elinor
Ostrom |
Indiana
University |
Lecture at the inauguration of
the new Stockholm Resilience Centre (May 2007)
Halting Deforestation: Reflections from the Air, on
the Ground, and in the Experimental Lab
Why Development Aid Has Failed So Often |
| Arthur B.
Pardee |
Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute |
Regulatory Molecular Biology |
| James R.
Rice |
Harvard
University, Cambridge |
Structure of
Mature Faults and Physics of Their Weakening during Earthquakes. Part I
Part II |
| Leo Sachs |
Weizmann
Institute of Science |
The control of hematopoiesis
and leukemia: From basic biology to the clinic |
| Andrew M.
Sessler |
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA |
75 Years of
Particle Accelerators. Part I
Part II
|
| Shlomo Sternberg |
Harvard
University |
General covariance and the passive equations of
physics |
| Kip S.
Thorne |
Caltech,
Pasadena |
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~kip/scripts/lectures.html
Online
lecture course on
gravitational-wave science
http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/
|
| Waldo
Tobler |
Geography
Department, University of California |
Geographic Location and Map Projections. Part I Part II
The World is
Shriveling as it Shrinks. Part I
Part II
Geographical Interpolation
Using Asymmetry
to Estimate Potential. Part I Part II
Geographical
Movement - Maps and Models. Part I
Part II
Map Making for
Social Scientists. Part I Part II
Unusual Map
Projections. Part I Part II
Part III
The Care and
Feeding of Vector Fields. Part I Part II
Exploring
Geography Cartographically. Part I Part II
Part III
Resel Processing.
Part I
Part II
Qibla
Maps |
| R.Zinkernagel |
Institute of
Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
Infection. Tumor
Grafts. Specificity. Memory. “Tolerance“ |