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The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.
October 29 and 30, 2007
Conference Schedule
Session I. Scientists and Textbooks
Monday 9:00am – 12:30pm (coffee break at 10:15am)
Mary Jo Nye (History of Science, Oregon State University)
Session Chair, "Scientists and Textbooks"
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Michael Gordin (History, Princeton University)
“Periodicity, Priority, Pedagogy: Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer” Read Abstract
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Ana Simões (Physics, University of Lisbon)
“Textbooks as Manifestos: C. A. Coulson after Linus Pauling and R. S. Mulliken" Read Abstract
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David Kaiser (Physics, MIT)
“Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing: Quantum Mechanics and Counterculture in the 1970s” Read Abstract
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Kenneth Krane (Physics, Oregon State University)
“Making a Modern Physics Textbook: The Collision of Full-Time Commitments” Read Abstract
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Session II. Popular and Public Science
Monday 2:00pm – 5:30pm (coffee break at 3:15pm)
Cliff Mead (Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, OSU Libraries, Oregon State University)
Session Chair, "Popular and Public Science"
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Robert Anderson (Cambridge / Past Director British Museum)
“Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public” Read Abstract
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Bassam Shakhashiri (Chemistry, University of Wisconsin)
“On Bonding with the Public” Read Abstract
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Steve Lyons (Moreno/Lyons Productions, Boston)
“Bringing Chemistry to Prime Time” Read Abstract
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Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry, Harvard University)
“Linus Pauling as an Evangelical Chemist” Read Abstract
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Session III. The Scientist as Public Citizen
Tuesday 9:00am - 12:30pm (coffee break at 10:15am)
Chris Petersen (Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon State University)
Session Chair, "The Scientist as Public Citizen"
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Tom Hager (Pauling biographer)
“The Scientist as Celebrity: Pauling, The Media, and the Bomb” Read Abstract
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Lawrence Badash (History, University of California at Santa Barbara)
“Science in the McCarthy Period: Training Ground for Scientists as Public Citizens” Read Abstract
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Warren Washington (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder)
“The Evolution of Global Warming Science: From Ideas to Scientific Facts” Read Abstract
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Jane Lubchenco (Zoology, Oregon State University)
“Advocates for Science: The Role of Academic Environmental Scientists” Read Abstract
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Session III Speakers (2007 Pauling Conference)
Panel Discussion of Session Topics Read Abstract
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