 | 2012 |
| | - Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man
April 27, 2012
Graham Farmelo
Churchill College
University of Cambridge
| | | - Complexity: A Guided Tour
May 4, 2012
Melanie Mitchell
Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute
| | | - A Memoir of Los Alamos in World War II
May 18, 2012
Murray Peshkin
Argonne National Laboratory
| | | - Near-Earth Objects: finding them before they find us
April 13, 2012
Donald Yeomans
Manager
NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office
| | | - Riding the Waves: Harnessing Ocean Wave Energy through Research, Development, and Testing
March 23, 2012
Alex Yokochi
School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineeringr
Oregon State University & Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center
| | | - The Role of Technology in the Outlook for Energy
March 16, 2012
Nazeer Bhore
Senior Technology Advisor
ExxonMobil Corporation
| | | - A Demographic Look at the Near Future
Feb. 10, 2012
Howard Hogan
Chief Demographer
U.S. Census Bureau
| | | - Betting on Las Vegas: Designing Popular Slot Games
Feb. 3, 2012
Olaf Vancura
Vice President of Game Development
American Gaming Systems
| | | - Where Do New Medicines Come From?
Jan. 20, 2012
Jennifer Martin
Australian Laureate Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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| 2011 |
| | The Disappearing Spoon: True Tales of Madness, Love, and World History from the Periodic Table
Dec. 16, 2011
Sam Kean
Author
| | | The Josephson Volt: NIST's First Quantum Electrical Standard
Dec. 2, 2011
Richard Katz
NIST Alumnus and former member of the Boulder Cryoelectronics Group
| | | The New Era of Human 2.0 New Minds, New Bodies, and New Identities
Nov. 18, 2011
Hugh Herr
Director, Biomechatronics
MIT Media Lab
| | | Edward Teller and the Other Martians of Science
Nov. 4, 2011
Istvan Hargittai
Department of Chemistry
Budapest University of Technology & Economics
| | | Why (and How) Bayes’ Rule Rules
Oct. 21, 2011
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Author
| | | Affordable Semi-Manufacturing: Implications for Microelectronics and Finding a New Path into the Future
Sept. 23, 2011
Dan Armbrust
President and Chief Executive Officer
SEMATECH
| | | Send for the Doctor--Surgery and Medical Care During the Civil War
Sept. 9, 2011
Clarence Hickey
Interpretive Docent
Montgomery County Historical Society
| | | Graphene Materials in the Flatland
July 26, 2011
Kostya Novoselov
2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Manchester
| | | The Avogadro Project A 25 Year Quest
May 20, 2011
Peter Becker
Department of Quantum Optics and Length PTB (Braunschweig)
| | | NIST's New Science and Engineering Research Tool DLMF
May 13, 2011
Charles Clark, NIST Fellow
Atomic Physics Division
Dan Lozier
NIST Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
DLMF Editorial Board Members
| | | The Polyvalent Gold Nanoparticle Conjugate Material Synthesis, Biodiagnostics, and Intracellular Gene Regulations
April 29, 2011
Chad Mirkin, Director
International Institute for Nanotechnology Northwestern University
| | | Diagnostics for Bone Disease Taking the High Road or the Low Road to Standardization
April 8, 2011
Thomas Fuerst, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer CCBR-SYNARC
| | | Recombinant Proteins in Milk A Bioreactor That Eats Hay
March 25, 2011
Harry Meade
Senior Vice-President Research and Development
GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc.
| | | Big Data, New Physics and Geospatial Super-Food
March 11, 2011
Jeffrey Jonas
Chief Scientist and IBM Distinguished Engineer
IBM Entity Analytics
| | | Biomarkers & Personalized Medicine Research and Diagnostics
Feb. 25, 2011
Larry Gold
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado
Chairman and CEO, SomaLogic, Inc.
| | | Complexity and Chaos in Medieval Cartography
Feb. 11, 2011
John Hessler
Fellow, Royal Geographical SocietyGeography and Map Division
Library of Congress
| | | Quantum Money
Jan. 21, 2011
Peter Shor
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 2010 |
| | Is Smell a Quantum Phenomenon?
Jan. 7, 2011
Luca Turin
Center for Biomedical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| | | Why Climate Science Doesn’t Unite Us But Energy Technology Does
Dec. 17, 2010
Michael Shellenberger
Ted Nordhaus
Co-Founders
Breakthrough Institute, Oakland, Calif.
| | | Breeding and Building Molecules To Spy on Cells and Tumors
Dec. 10, 2010
Roger Y. Tsien
2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
University of California (San Diego)
| | | NBS and the Laser On the 50th Anniversary of the Laser
Dec. 3, 2010
Howard P. Layer and William D. Phillips
NBS/NIST Laser Pioneers
| | | Mood Disorders and Creativity
Nov. 5, 2010
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Mood Disorders Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
| | | Deepwater Horizon: Science in Action
Oct. 29, 2010
Jane Lubchenco
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Administration and NOAA Administrator
| | | Modern Day Alchemy with Metamaterials Invisibility Cloaks and Superlenses
Oct. 15, 2010
David R. Smith
Director, Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University
| | | The European Spallation Source Getting the "Green" Light
Sept. 24, 2010
Colin Carlile
Director, European Spallation Source
| | | Thirtieth Anniversary of the Discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect
May 21, 2010
Klaus v. Klitzing
1985 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung
| | | BIOCENTRISM How Life Creates the Universe
May 7, 2010
Bob Berman
Co-author of Biocentrism (with Robert Lanza, MD)
Contributing editor, monthly columnist for Astronomy magazineAstronomy editor of the Old Farmers Almanac
University of Maryland School of Medicine
| | | The Role of the Human Microbiota in Health and Disease
April 23, 2010
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine
| | | The Bomb: A New History
March 26, 2010
The Bomb: A New History
Stephen M. Younger, President
National Security Technologies
| | | Extrasolar Planets: Pushing for Exo-Earths
January 22, 2010
Paul Butler
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie Institute of Washington
| | | Uniform, Shape-Specific Carriers for Vaccines, Biologics and Small Molecule Drugs
January 8, 2010
Joseph DeSimone, Director
Institutes of Nanomedicine and Advanced Materials, Nanoscience, and Technology
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
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| 2009 |
| | Agile or Dead: Accelerating Change In a Virtual and Musical World
December 18, 2009
Cory Ondrejka, Co-Founder, Second Life
Fellow, USC Annenberg School of Communication
| | | Quenching the Dragon A Century of Fire Science at NBS/NIST
December 4, 2009
Richard Gann
Fire Research Division
NIST Building & Fire Research Laboratory
| | | The Triumph of Random
November 6, 2009
Leonard Mlodinow
Theoretical Physicist,
Author, Writer, and Producer
California Institute of Technology
| | | Innovations in Semiconductor Devices for Exascale Computing
October 30, 2009
T.C. Chen, Vice President of Science and Technology
IBM Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights
| | | Global Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity
October 16, 2009
Michael B. McElroy
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
| | | From Nature and Back Again – Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics, Medicine and the Environment
Sept. 25, 2009
Angela Belcher
Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| | | Pores Without Walls for Clean Energy
Sept. 11, 2009
Omar M. Yaghi
Director, Center for Reticular Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA
| | | Quantum Complexity and Fundamental Physics
May 29, 2009
Scott Aaronson
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| | | Programming the Universe
May 15, 2009
Seth Lloyd
Director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| | | Beyond Watson and Crick DNA as a Building Material
May 1, 2009
Paul Rothemund
Computation and Neural Systems Department
California Institute of Technology
| | | Cancer, Trauma, and Stroke Imaging Biomarkers are Changing Them All
April 17, 2009
Michael W. Vannier, M.D.
Diagnostic Radiology Department
University of Chicago Medical Center
| | | The Art of Science Television
March 20, 2009
Paula S. Aspell
Senior Executive Producer, PBS-NOVA
Director, Science Unit, WGBH (Boston)
| | | Next Generation Neural Implants
March 6, 2009
Yu-Chong Tai
Director, Caltech Micromaching Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
| | | Making Life and Death Decisions in Conditions of Uncertainty THE 2008 RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN WAR
February 20, 2009
Andrei Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
President, Institute of Economic Analysis (Moscow)
| | | BURJ DUBAI: the World's Tallest Building
February 6, 2009
William Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Structural and Civil Engineering Branch
| | | Is God a Mathematician?
January 23, 2009
Mario Livio, Senior Astrophysicist
Space Telescope Science Institute
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| 2008 |
| | Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet
December 19, 2008
Brian Malow, Science Comedian
| | | From Dental Materials to Panoramic X-Rays: The NIST-ADA Dental Research Collaboration
December 5, 2008
Clifton Carey
Paffenbarger Research Center
NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
| | | The Quest to Measure Longitude
November 14, 2008
Dava Sobel
Science Journalist and Author
| | | What are the Laws of Physics?
October 31, 2008
Paul Davies
Director, BEYOND:Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Arizona State University
| | | Digital Forensics
October 17, 2008
Hany Farid
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Security Technology Studies
Dartmouth College
| | | Pioneers of Quantum Computing
October 3, 2008
David DiVincenzo
Manager, Quantum Information Group
IBM Watson Research Center
| | | Magnetic Storms
September 19, 2008
Building planetary cores in the laboratory
Daniel Lathrop, Director
Institute for Electronics & Applied Physics
University of Maryland
| | | The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics
September 5, 2008
Christopher Monroe
Joint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland
| | | Observing Climate with Satellites Are We on Thin Ice?
June 6, 2008
Compton Tucker
Goddard Fellow
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
| | | Nanotechnology And Human Disease States
May 16, 2008
Subra Suresh
Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| | | The Making of Absolute Zero
April 18, 2008
Russell Donnelly
Principal Investigator, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Department of Physics, Univ. Oregon
| | | The Modern Science of Origami
March 28, 2008
From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes
Robert J. Lang
Author, Artist, and Editor-in-Chief IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
| | | The Measure of All Things
March 14, 2008
Ken Alder
Department of History
Northwestern University
| | | Energy Options -- A Global Energy Perspective
March 7, 2008
Nathan Lewis
Division of Chemical and Chemistry Engineering
California Institute of Technology
| | | Benjamin Franklin -- The First Scientific American
February 22, 2008
Joyce Chaplin
History Department
Harvard University
| | | The Quick Kill
February 8, 2008
Stimulating Innovation in Medical Research & the Future of Surgery
Perspectives of an Engineer/Radiologist
Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Radiology
U. of Maryland School of Medicine
| | | LIGO: At the forefront of optical materials research
February 1, 2008
Stephen C. McGuire
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics
Southern University and A&M College
| | | DNA -- Not Merely the Secret of Life
January 25, 2008
Nadrian Seeman
Department of Chemistry, New York University
| | | Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
January 18, 2008
Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project
National Geographic Society
| | | MatheMagics
January 11, 2008
Art Benjamin, Math Department, Harvey Mudd College |
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