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“The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.”
October 29 - 30, 2007

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LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University

Session I: Scientists and Textbooks

• Mary Jo Nye - Session Chair, "Scientists and Textbooks”  Watch Video
• Michael Gordin - “Periodicity, Priority, Pedagogy: Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Ana Simões - “Textbooks as Manifestos: C. A. Coulson after Linus Pauling and R. S. Mulliken” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• David Kaiser - “Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing: Quantum Mechanics and Counterculture in the 1970s” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Ken Krane - “Making a Modern Physics Textbook: The Collision of Full-Time Commitments” Read Abstract  Watch Video

Session 2: Popular and Public Science

• Cliff Mead - Session Chair, "Popular and Public Science”  Watch Video
• Bassam Shakhashiri - “On Bonding with the Public” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Robert Anderson - “Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Stephen Lyons - “Bringing Chemistry to Prime Time” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Dudley Herschbach - “Linus Pauling as an Evangelical Chemist” Read Abstract  Watch Video

Session 3: The Scientist as Public Citizen

• Chris Petersen - Session Chair, "The Scientist as Public Citizen”  Watch Video
• Tom Hager - “The Scientist as Celebrity: Pauling, The Media, and the Bomb” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Lawrence Badash - “Science in the McCarthy Period: Training Ground for Scientists as Public Citizens” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Warren Washington - “The Evolution of Global Warming Science: From Ideas to Scientific Facts” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Jane Lubchenco - “Advocates for Science: The Role of Academic Environmental Scientists” Read Abstract  Watch Video
• Chris Petersen, Tom Hager, Lawrence Badash, Warren Washington, Jane Lubchenco - “Panel Discussion of Session III Topics” Read Abstract  Watch Video