Scientists

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Michael Anastasio for a discussion of leading national science laboratories in a time of transition. Anastasio analyzes applied science as practiced in the national laboratories, defines leadership in managing a community of scientists, and analyzes the changing mission of the labs in the context of the end of the Cold War and the challenges that emerge in a constrained resource environment. He explains how the lab adapts as its internal and external environment changes and how scientists develop new responses as the global security...

In this 1983 interview, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling joins U.C. Berkeley's Harry Kreisler for a discussion of the role of scientists in the peace movement.

KEYWORDS: Nobel Laureates, Nuclear Weapons, Political Activism, Peace Movements.

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman. Tracing his intellectual journey, Professor Lederman discusses the qualities of a scientist, the early years of particle physics, the evolution of his own research interests, the discovery of the muon neutrino, the importance of that discovery and its implications for cosmology. He recalls the dynamism and excitement of his years in particle physics and the experience of winning the Nobel Prize. Drawing on his recent work, Professor Lederman also offers a critique of Secondary school science education and...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Russian Nobel Prize Laureate Zhores Alferov for a discussion of the influences that shaped his scientific career, the interplay between theory and experimentation in his own scientific discovery, and the impact of the global science community on discovery and policy. He offers insights on the education of the next generation of scientists and describes the complicated relationship between scientists and the state.

KEYWORDS: Nobel Laureates, Technology, Scientific Inquiry.