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

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Complete video of all of the symposium presentations is presented here, along with full transcriptions.

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Session I: Scientists and Textbooks

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

Session 2: Popular and Public Science

• Cliff Mead (Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon State University) - Session Chair, "Popular and Public Science”
• Bassam Shakhashiri (Chemistry, University of Wisconsin) - “On Bonding with the Public”
• Robert Anderson (Cambridge / Past Director British Museum) - “Circa 1951: Presenting Science to the British Public”
• Stephen Lyons (Moreno/Lyons Productions, Boston) - “Bringing Chemistry to Prime Time”
• Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry, Harvard University) - “Linus Pauling as an Evangelical Chemist”

Session 3: The Scientist as Public Citizen

• Chris Petersen (Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon State University) - Session Chair, "The Scientist as Public Citizen”
• Tom Hager (Pauling biographer) - “The Scientist as Celebrity: Pauling, The Media, and the Bomb”
• Lawrence Badash (History, University of California at Santa Barbara) - “Science in the McCarthy Period: Training Ground for Scientists as Public Citizens”
• Warren Washington (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder) - “The Evolution of Global Warming Science: From Ideas to Scientific Facts”
• Jane Lubchenco (Zoology, Oregon State University) - “Advocates for Science: The Role of Academic Environmental Scientists”
• Chris Petersen, Tom Hager, Lawrence Badash, Warren Washington, Jane Lubchenco () () () () () - “Panel Discussion of Session III Topics”