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World-renowned US scientists, researchers, engineers, and educators who join in commemorating the National Science Foundation's 50 years of vision in support of education and fundamental research in all science and engineering disciplines.
    Its purpose is to ensure that the United States maintains leadership in discovery, learning, and innovation across science, mathematics, and engineering. Representing NSF's seven research, engineering, and education directorates are evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, Nobel Prize winners Richard Smalley and Robert Solow, and others.
     How do discoveries affect you? The foresight of NSF's support brought us the Internet, camcorders, Doppler radar, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and countless other exciting innovations. What's on the horizon is equally exciting: Genome sequencing and DNA-chips, biotechnology, satellite-based imaging of land and sea, new tools in computational analysis, and mathematical and statistical modeling, among many others.
     You are invited to come and listen to these outstanding speakers over the coming year; hear how the future of science, engineering, and technology affects you, and celebrate NSF's 50 remarkable years.

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Discoveries of the 20th Century

Discoveries of the 20th Century

NSF50 Lecture Series

 

Sean Solomon

 

  GEOSCIENCES
Wednesday, May 17, 8:00 pm
Sean Solomon, director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Richard Smally

 

 

 

MATHEMATICAL AND
PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Tuesday, June 6, 8:00 pm
Richard Smalley, Hackerman professor of chemistry, Rice University; co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of carbon atoms bound in the form of a ball, nicknamed "buckyballs."

 

Stephen Jay Gould

 

 

  BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Wednesday, June 21, 8:00 pm
Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard University; curator for invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; and an essayist for Natural History magazine.
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Shirley Ann Jackson

 

 

  EDUCATION AND
HUMAN RESOURCES

Monday, July 10, 8:00 pm
Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; former chair, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William Joy

 

 

  COMPUTER AND
INFORMATION SCIENCE

Thursday, September 14, 8:00 pm
William Joy, co-founder, vice president for Research, chief scientist, and CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, California.

Kristina Johnson

 

 

 
ENGINEERING
Monday, October 23, 8:00 pm
Kristina Johnson, dean of engineering, Duke University.
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Robert Solow

 

 

  SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL,
AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Wednesday, November 29, 8:00 pm
Robert Solow, professor emeritus, Department of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1987 Nobel Prize for demonstrating the critical importance of technological advances on economic growth and 1999 recipient of the National Medal of Science.




INDIVIDUAL LECTURES
CODE: TJ0-744
Wednesday, May 17
CODE: TJ0-745
Tuesday, June 6

CODE: TJ0-746
Wednesday, June
21
CODE: TJ0-747
Monday, July 10

CODE: TJ0-748
Thursday, September 14
CODE: TJ0-749
Monday, October 23
CODE: TJ0-750
Wednesday, November 29

Resident Members $10
Senior Members $9
General Admission $13

FULL SERIES
CODE: AJ03
Location indicated on ticket.
Resident Members $49
Senior Members $44
General Admission $65


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