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The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.
October 29 and 30, 2007
Videos
Video of all of the speakers is available, along with full transcriptions.
Thanks to the Oregon Public Affairs Network (OPAN) for filming the conference.
Click on a talk below to watch the video.
Session I. Scientists and Textbooks
Mary Jo Nye - Session Chair, "Scientists and Textbooks"
Michael Gordin - “Periodicity, Priority, Pedagogy: Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer”
Ana Simões - “Textbooks as Manifestos: C. A. Coulson after Linus Pauling and R. S. Mulliken"
David Kaiser - “Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing: Quantum Mechanics and Counterculture in the 1970s”
Kenneth Krane - “Making a Modern Physics Textbook: The Collision of Full-Time Commitments”
Session II. Popular and Public Science
Cliff Mead - Session Chair, "Popular and Public Science"
Robert Anderson - “Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public”
Bassam Shakhashiri - “On Bonding with the Public”
Steve Lyons - “Bringing Chemistry to Prime Time”
Dudley Herschbach - “Linus Pauling as an Evangelical Chemist”
Session III. The Scientist as Public Citizen
Chris Petersen - Session Chair, "The Scientist as Public Citizen"
Tom Hager - “The Scientist as Celebrity: Pauling, The Media, and the Bomb”
Lawrence Badash - “Science in the McCarthy Period: Training Ground for Scientists as Public Citizens”
Warren Washington - “The Evolution of Global Warming Science: From Ideas to Scientific Facts”
Jane Lubchenco - “Advocates for Science: The Role of Academic Environmental Scientists”
Session III Speakers - Panel Discussion of Session Topics
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