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Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 450 interviews.
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AlferovZhores I. Alferov; Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nobel Laureate in Physics: "Scientific Discovery and the Information Age," 4/11/05

BasriGibor Basri; Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley: "Reaching for the Stars," 6/14/09

BouchardJacques Bouchard; French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA): "Nuclear Power, Proliferation and the Challenges of Global Climate Change," 02/27/09

BrilliantLarry Brilliant, M.D.; Executive Director, Google.org: "A Life of Service," 4/17/06

CaldwellRoy Caldwell; Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley: "Evolution of a Biologist," 6/20/01

CalhounCraig Calhoun; President, Social Science Research Council: "Social Science and the Public Good," 05/7/09

Chu Steven Chu; Nobel Laureate in Physics and Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University: "A Scientist's Random Walk," 2/13/04

DalgarnoAlexander Dalgarno; Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard: "Astrophysics," 2/28/03

DysonFreeman Dyson; Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton: "Our Nuclear Dilemma," 5/30/84

EkmanPaul Ekman; Professor of Psychology, UCSF Medical School: "Face to Face: The Science of Reading Faces," 1/14/04

GoldsbergKen Goldberg; Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley: "Robotics and Art in the Information Age," 8/25/05

Gurdon Sir John Gurdon, Professor of Cell Biology, Cambridge University, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology: "Revolution in the Biological Sciences," 3/16/06

HaasErnst B. Haas; Robson Research Professor of Government, UC Berkeley: "Science and Progress in International Relations," 10/30/00

HarrisEva Harris; Assistant Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley: "Making Science Accessible," 3/15/01

HarteJohn Harte; Professor of Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley: "Understanding the Global Environmental Crisis," 01/27/09

Hamilton Allan J. Hamilton; M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Arizona Health Sciences Center: "A Surgeon’s Journey Beyond Science,” 03/21/08

Heilbron John Heilbron; Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, England.: "Science and History,” 11/09/07

HerschbachDudley Herschbach; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University: "Science and Society," 9/29/05

KahnemanDaniel Kahneman; 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Eugene Higgens Professor of Psychology, Princeton: "Intuition and Rationality," 2/7/07

KingSir David King; Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "Science and Public Policy," 9/15/05

Koch Christof Koch, Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at Caltech: "Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain," 3/24/06

LanierJaron Lanier; Computer Scientist and Artist: "Culture and Technology," 10/3/05

LewontinRichard C. Lewontin; Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University: "Science and Politics," 11/20/03

Liljelund Lars-Erik Liljelund; Director General of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Climate Change and Public Policy," 3/20/06

MarkHans Mark; Chancellor, University of Texas: "Technology, Universities, and the Changing International Environment," 3/15/88

MarmotSir Michael Marmot; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London: "Redefining Public Health: Epidemiology and Social Stratification," 3/18/02

MyersNorman Myers; Environmental Scientist and Activist: "The Journey of an Environmental Scientist," 11/11/98

PaulingLinus Pauling; Nobel Laureate: "The Peace Movement in Historical Perspective," 1/18/83

PeeblesJames E. Peebles; Professor Emeritus of Cosmology; former Albert Einstien Professor of Science, Princeton University: "A Cosmologist's Intellectual Journey," 10/12/06

SearleJohn Searle; Mills Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley: "Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking," 9/22/99

ShapiroHarold T. Shapiro; former President of Princeton University and the University of Michigan: "The Changing Role of University Presidents," 3/18/03

ShapiroLucy Shapiro; Professor of Cancer Research, Stanford: "A Microbiologist's Intellectual Odyssey," 04/2/09

ShubinNeil Shubin; Field Museum Provost: "Your Inner Fish," 03/19/09

StarkLawrence Stark, M.D.; Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Optometry, UC Berkeley: "The Mind's Eye," 8/16/00

Townes Charles H. Townes; Nobel Laureate and Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley: "Adventures of a Scientist," 2/15/00

ToyoshimaChikashi Toyoshima; Professor at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Univerity of Tokyo: "Visualizing the Relationship between Structure and Cellular Activity," 5/1/08

VestCharles M. Vest; Former President of MIT: "Leading MIT into the 21st Century," 9/12/05

WeisskopfVictor Weisskopf; Professor of Physics, MIT: "A Scientist's Odyssey," 4/7/88

WhiteTim White; Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley: "On the Trail of our Human Ancestors" 9/18/03

YorkHerbert York; Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: "Reminiscences from a Career in Science, National Security, and the University," 2/6/88


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