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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Zhores I. Alferov; Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nobel Laureate
in Physics: "Scientific
Discovery and the Information Age," 4/11/05
Gibor Basri; Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley: "Reaching for the Stars," 6/14/09
Jacques Bouchard;
French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA): "Nuclear Power, Proliferation and the Challenges of Global Climate Change," 02/27/09
Larry
Brilliant, M.D.; Executive Director, Google.org: "A
Life of Service," 4/17/06
Roy Caldwell;
Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley: "Evolution
of a Biologist," 6/20/01
Craig Calhoun; President, Social Science Research Council: "Social Science and the Public Good," 05/7/09
Steven Chu;
Nobel Laureate in Physics and Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied
Physics, Stanford University: "A
Scientist's Random Walk," 2/13/04
Alexander
Dalgarno; Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard: "Astrophysics," 2/28/03
Freeman Dyson; Professor of Physics, Institute for
Advanced Studies, Princeton: "Our
Nuclear Dilemma," 5/30/84
Paul Ekman;
Professor of Psychology, UCSF Medical School: "Face
to Face: The Science of Reading Faces," 1/14/04
Ken
Goldberg; Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
UC Berkeley: "Robotics
and Art in the Information Age," 8/25/05
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
Ernst B. Haas;
Robson Research Professor of Government, UC Berkeley: "Science
and Progress in International Relations," 10/30/00
Eva Harris;
Assistant Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley: "Making
Science Accessible," 3/15/01
John Harte;
Professor of Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley: "Understanding the Global Environmental Crisis," 01/27/09
Allan
J. Hamilton; M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Arizona Health Sciences
Center: "A
Surgeon’s Journey Beyond Science,” 03/21/08
John Heilbron; Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford,
England.: "Science
and History,” 11/09/07
Dudley Herschbach; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Frank B. Baird, Jr.,
Professor of Science, Harvard University: "Science
and Society," 9/29/05
Daniel Kahneman;
2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Eugene Higgens Professor of Psychology,
Princeton: "Intuition
and Rationality," 2/7/07
Sir
David King; Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "Science
and Public Policy," 9/15/05
Christof Koch, Lois
and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at Caltech: "Consciousness
and the Biology of the Brain," 3/24/06
Jaron Lanier; Computer
Scientist and Artist: "Culture
and Technology," 10/3/05
Richard
C. Lewontin; Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University: "Science
and Politics," 11/20/03
Lars-Erik
Liljelund; Director General of the Swedish Environmental Protection
Agency: "Climate Change
and Public Policy," 3/20/06
Hans Mark; Chancellor, University of Texas: "Technology,
Universities, and the Changing International Environment," 3/15/88
Sir Michael
Marmot; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University
College, London: "Redefining
Public Health: Epidemiology and Social Stratification," 3/18/02
Norman Myers;
Environmental Scientist and Activist: "The
Journey of an Environmental Scientist," 11/11/98
Linus Pauling;
Nobel Laureate: "The Peace Movement
in Historical Perspective," 1/18/83
James E.
Peebles; Professor Emeritus of Cosmology; former Albert Einstien
Professor of Science, Princeton University: "A
Cosmologist's Intellectual Journey," 10/12/06
John Searle;
Mills Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley: "Philosophy
and the Habits of Critical Thinking," 9/22/99
Harold
T. Shapiro; former President of Princeton University and the University
of Michigan: "The Changing
Role of University Presidents," 3/18/03
Lucy Shapiro; Professor of Cancer Research, Stanford: "A Microbiologist's Intellectual Odyssey," 04/2/09
Neil Shubin;
Field Museum Provost: "Your Inner Fish," 03/19/09
Lawrence Stark,
M.D.; Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Optometry, UC Berkeley: "The
Mind's Eye," 8/16/00
Charles H. Townes; Nobel Laureate and Professor of the Graduate School,
UC Berkeley: "Adventures
of a Scientist," 2/15/00
Chikashi Toyoshima; Professor at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Univerity of Tokyo: "Visualizing the Relationship between Structure and Cellular Activity," 5/1/08
Charles
M. Vest; Former President of MIT: "Leading
MIT into the 21st Century," 9/12/05
Victor
Weisskopf; Professor of Physics, MIT: "A
Scientist's Odyssey," 4/7/88
Tim White;
Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley: "On
the Trail of our Human Ancestors" 9/18/03
Herbert 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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