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Hitchcock Lectures: 1909-2007

2007
John Heilbron, Professor Emeritus, History, University of California, Berkeley
Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures

Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Explorations of the Mind—Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws and Explorations of the Mind—Happiness: Living and Thinking about It

2006
P. James E. Peebles, Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, Princeton University
What Is Our Universe Like in the Large, and How Did It Get that Way?
"Exploring the Large-Scale Nature of the Universe"
"Triumphs and Challenges for Modern Cosmology"

Sir John Gurdon, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
From Egg to Adult and Back Again
"How Does an Egg Make an Organism? Some General Principles"
"Cloning, Stem Cells, and Cell Replacement"

2005
Dudley Herschbach, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
Intimate Encounters with Molecules
"Taming Molecular Wildness"
"Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds"

Amartya Sen
Lamont University Professor
Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Identity and Violence
"The Violence of Illusion"
"Making Sense of Identity"

2004
Robert W. Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, and Director of the Center for Population Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century
"Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases during the Course of the Twentieth Century"
"Common Analytical Errors in Explanations for Improvements in Health and Longevity"

Steven Chu, Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers:
"Laser Cooling: From Atomic Clocks to Watching Biomolecules Move"
"What Can Physics Say about Life?"

2003
Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University
Dr. David Mumford, University Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University: "The Mathematical Way of Understanding the World: Clocks and Chaos"
"The Mathematical Way of Understanding the World: Models of Thought"

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Language and Mind Revisited: The Biolinguistic Turn"; "Language and Mind Revisited: Language and the Rest of the World"

J. Craig Venter, Chairman of the Board for The Institute for Genomic Research: "Sequencing the Human Genome: Prokaryotes"; "Sequencing the Human Genome: Eukaryotes"

2001
Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Director, International Centre for Health and Society, University College London: "Inequalities in Health: Life and Death on the Social Gradient"; "Inequalities in Health: Health Matters: There is Such a Thing as Society"

E. Margaret Burbidge, University Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego: "Modern Alchemy: Stars, Chemistry and Cosmology"; "The Riddle of the Redshift: The Universe We Don't Understand"

Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford: "The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Genetic Book of the Dead"; "The Gene's Eye View of Creation: The Selfish Cooperator"

2000
Michael D. Coe, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Yale University: "Deciphering the Maya Script: What We Know and What We Don't Know"; "More Than a Drink: Chocolate in the Pre-Columbian World"; "Parallel Civilizations: Ancient Angkor and the Ancient Maya"

Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor, the Rockefeller University: "How Many People Can the Earth Support?"; "Human Carrying Capacity: Concepts, Methods and Models"; Special Presentation: films and discussion of population issues

Sir Peter Hall, Chair of Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College, London: "Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation and Urban Order"; "The End of the City? 'The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration'"

1999
Roger N. Shepard, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Social Science Emeritus and Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Stanford University: "Perception, Imagination and Science"; "The Grounds of Science and of Ethics"

A. James Hudspeth, F. M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Rockefeller University: "How the Ear’s Works Work: Auditory Sensory Transduction"; "Getting in Tune: Auditory Frequency Selectivity"

1998
Norman Myers, Fellow, Green College, Oxford University: "Environment, Population, Consumption, and Sustainable Development: The Great Challenges of Our Time"; "Tropical Forests: Their Future and Our Future"

Harold Kroto, Royal Society Research Professor and 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry: "Science, a Round Peg in a Square World"; "C₆₀: Buckminsterfullerene, Not Just a Pretty Molecule"

Robert Lucky, Corporate Vice President of Applied Research, Bell Communications Research: "Failed Visions and Unexpected Adaptations: Reflections on the Interaction of Society and Communications Technology"; "How Will We Connect?: Rethinking the World’s Communications in the Age of the Internet."

1997
Colin Renfrew, Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn FBA and Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge: "Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistic Diversity: Towards a New Synthesis"; "The Sapiens Paradox, Or Why Did People Get Smart So Late?"

Eugene Shoemaker, Staff Member, Lowell Observatory and Scientist, Emeritus, U. S. Geological Survey: "Chicken Little Was Right: The Sky Is Falling"; "Things That Went Bump in the Night (and Shook the Earth)"

1996
John Horton Conway, John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University: "Tangles, Bangles and Knots"; "Fractran: A Ridiculous Logical Language"

Yegor Gaidar, Former Prime Minister, Russia: "Two Russian Revolutions"; "Five Years of the Democratic Experiment in Russia"

1995
Martin Rees, Royal Society Research Professor and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge: "Our Universe and Others"; "How Much Cosmology Can We Believe?"

1994
James March, Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management and Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Stanford University: "How Decisions Happen in Organizations"; "Learning in Organizations"

John Polanyi, University Professor and Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto: "Photochemistry in an Ordered Universe - Using Light as a Scalpel, and a Crystal as Operating Table"; "The Responsibility of the Scientist in an Age of Science"

Carlo Rubbia, Senior Physicist, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): "Present Status of the Standard Model in Particle Physics"; "Beyond the Standard Model"

1993
Maxine Singer, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington: "Mobile DNA: Ubiquitous and Unusual Genetic Elements"; "Mobile Genetic Elements in Mammals"; "Line-1: A Mobile Element in the Human Genome"

Hendrik van de Hulst, Professor of Astronomy, University of Leiden: "A Piece of Sunshine"; "Far from the Stars - in the Midst of Astronomy"

1992
Benoit Mandelbrot, IBM Fellow, the T.J. Watson Research Center and Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematical Science, Yale University: "Fractals: For the Pleasure of the Mind and the Pleasure of the Eye"; "The Fractal Geometry of Nature's Complexity"

Eric Kandel, Professor, Columbia University and Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "Cell and Molecular Biological Approaches to Learning and Memory"; "Habituation: A Reductionist's Strategy to the Study of Procedural Learning"; "Sensitization: The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory"; "Classical Conditioning: Is There a Cellular Alphabet for Learning?"

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Professor, Collège de France and Director, École de Physique et Chimie: "Ultradivided Matter"; "How Does a Glue Work?"

1991
Paul C. Lauterbur, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Why Did It Take So Long? The Nature and Origins of Magnetic Resonance Imaging"; "The Body Transparent: What More Can NMR Do for Biology and Medicine?"

1990
Herbert Simon, Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University: "Literary Criticism as Cognitive Science"; "Liberal Education: The View from Cognitive Science"; "Qualitative Reasoning: How We Think Our Way through the Day"
Clifford Geertz, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University: "After the Fact: Indonesia, Morocco and the Recurrent"; "Anthropologist"; "Towns"; "Countries"; "Cultures"
1989
Kenneth Boulding, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder: "What Hopes for a Better World"; "What Hopes for Peace: Can We Abolish War?"; "What Hopes for Plenty: Can We Abolish Poverty?"; "What Hopes for Progress: How Can We Realize Human Potential?"
Herbert Robbins, Higgins Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Emeritus, Columbia University and New Jersey Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Rutgers University: "Estimating the Inestimable" I and II
William Fowler, Institute Professor of Physics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology: "The Age of the Observable Universe"; "The Big Bang Revisited: Early Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Universe"
1988
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge: "Origin of the Universe"; "Black Holes, White Holes, and Worm Holes"; "Direction of Time"
1987
Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Harvard University: "Are Our Universities Rotten at the 'Core'?"; "Enzymology to the Rescue of Medicine"
Sir Michael F. Atiyah, Royal Society Research Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford: "Geometry and Physics: The Past"; "Geometry and Physics: The Future"
David Baltimore, Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: "Control of Antibody Gene Expression"; "The Transforming Gene of a Leukemia Virus"
Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, Harvard University: "Current Controversies in Evolutionary Biology"; "Is Biology an Autonomous Science?"
1986
David A. Hamburg, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Chairman, American Association for the Advancement of Science: "Avoiding Nuclear War: Crisis Prevention and U.S. - Soviet Relations"; "International Cooperation for Health in Developing Countries"; "Toward Healthy Development in Childhood and Adolescence"
Robert M. May, Professor of Biology, Princeton University: "When Two and Two Do Not Make Four: Nonlinear Problems in Ecology"; "Ecological Aspects of Disease in Human Populations"

1985
Frederick Mosteller, Roger I. Lee Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University: "Frontiers of Health Assessment"; "Contributions of Meta-Analysis to Statistics and Health"; "Medical Technology Assessment in the Nation: Present State and Future Needs"
Manfred Eigen, Director, Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen: "Replication Kinetics and the Concept of Quasi-Species"; "Optimization in the Universe of Nucleic Acid Sequences"; "Evolutionary Biotechnology"
1984
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Laureate and Gerhard Gade University Professor, Harvard University: "Lasers in Science and Technology"; "Non-Linear Optics and Spectroscopy"
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale du Collège de France et de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: "The Birth of Historical Societies"; "Mythical Thought and Social Life"
1983
Linus Pauling, Research Professor, Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto: "The Development of the Concept of the Chemical Bond"; "Chemical Bonds in Biology"
Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Research Scientist, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada: "Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure"; "Spectroscopic Studies in Astrochemistry"
1982
Carleton Gajdusek, National Institutes of Health: "Infectious Diseases in Isolated Populations"; "Genetic, Toxic, and Deficiency Diseases in High Incidence in Isolated Populations"; "Unique and Unusual Patterning of Behaviour as a Consequence of Isolation"
Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, MacArthur Prize Fellow, Former Member of the Editorial Board of New York Times: "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: Beyond Style"; "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: Beyond Function"
Freeman J. Dyson, Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University: "Origins of Life"; "Experimental and Theoretical Background"; "An Abstract Model for the Origin of Life"; "Questions Arising from My Model and Others"
1981
Edward M. Purcell, Professor of Physics, Harvard University: "A Physicist Looks, a Bacterium"; "Life in a Magnetic Field"
Ilya Prigogine, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, University of Brussels and University of Texas: "Entropy, Structure and Fluctuations"
S. Keith Runcorn, Head of School of Physics and Professor of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne: "A Modern Scientific Controversy: Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics"; "The Primeval Moon: Magnetism and Polar Wandering"; "The Earth's Rotation: Evidence from Paleontology, Astronomy and Geophysics

1980
Torsten N. Wiesel, Roger Winthrop Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School: "Single Cell Analysis and Functional Architecture"; "Neuronal Plasticity during Development"
Samuel Winograd, IBM Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Department, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM: "Why Are Computers Worse Than We Hoped?"; "When Are Computers Better Than We Realized?"
1979
Robert A. Hinde, Royal Society Research Professor, M.R.C. Unit on the Development and Integration of Behaviour, University of Cambridge: "The Development of Parent-Infant Attachment"; "The Dynamics of the Parent-Offspring Relationship"; "Towards an Integrated Science of Inter-Personal Relationships"
Donald E. Knuth, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University: "Typesetting with the Aid of Mathematics"; "The Metafont Method of Alphabet Design"
1978
Sir George Porter, Director and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institute, London: "Life under the Sun"; "Science and the Human Purpose"; "The House of Humphry Davy - Reflections on the Bicentenary of His Birth"
Alec W. Skempton, Professor of Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology: "Hill-Slopes in the Weald of Kent: Stability Analysis and Pleistocene Geology"; "The Design and Construction of Early Iron Arch Bridges, 1779-1830"
1977
François Jacob, Head, Department of Molecular Genetics, Institut Pasteur: "Evolution and Tinkering"; "Mouse Teratocarcinoma and Embryonic Development"
E. Christopher Zeeman, Director and Professor, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry: "An Introduction to Catastrophe Theory"; "A Catastrophe Model for Anorexia Nervosa and Its Cure"
1976
Ioan M. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science: "The Myth of Social Anthropology"
S. Chandrasekhar, Theoretical Astrophysicist, Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago: "Why Are the Stars as They Are?"; "Black Holes: Their Roles in Astronomy and in Physics"
Victor F. Weisskopf, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Frontiers and Limits of Science"; "What Is an Elementary Particle?"; "The Fundamental Structure of Matter"
1975
Sir Edward Bullard, Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge: "The Floor of the Deep Oceans - What Are They Like"; "The Floor of the Deep Oceans - What Is Happening There"
Sir John W. Tukey, Professor of Statistics, Princeton University and Associate Director, Research-Communications, Principles Division, Bell Laboratories: "The Analysis of Data: Connecting the Future to the Past"; "The Analysis of Data: Exploration as One Road to Discovery"
1974
Sir Fred Hoyle, Cosmologist and Astrophysicist, St. John's College, University of Cambridge: "The Emergence of Life and of Intelligence"
1973
E. H. Phelps Brown, Emeritus Professor, University of London: "Lectures on the Why and Wherefore of Pay Differentials"
Branko Cvjetanovic, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Bacterial Diseases, World Health Organization: "Lectures on Epidemiological Models of Dynamics of Acute Bacterial Diseases"
1972
Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Biological Laboratories, Harvard University: "Lectures on the Evolution of Social Behavior"
1971
Ephraim Katchalski, Head, Department of Biophysics, Weizmann Institute: "Lectures on Synthetic Macromolecules in Biological Research"
Alfred S. Romer, Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Director Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: "Lectures on Major Steps in Vertebrate Evolution"

1970
Sir Bernard Katz, Professor of Biophysics, University College, London: "Lectures on the Transfer of Signals across Cell Boundaries"
1969
Grahame Clark, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge: "The Relevance of World Prehistory"; "Material Progress"; "The Dawn of Self-Awareness"
Roger Revelle, Director of the Center for Population Studies, School of Public Health, Harvard University: "Lectures On the Population Problem"
1968
George Wald, Professor of Biology, Biological Laboratories, Harvard University: "The Molecular Basis of Visual Excitation"; "The Molecular Basis of Human Vision"; "Single and Multiple Visual Systems in Arthropods"
1965
Richard J. Russell, Professor of Geography and Geology, and Director, Coastal Studies Institute, Louisiana State University: "Alluvial Morphology"; "Stream Patterns"; "Coastal Morphology"; "Coasts of Tropical Islands"
1964
Robert Oppenheimer, Director, Institute for Advanced Study: "Atomic Theory"; "Complementarity"; "The Atomic Bomb"
John Z. Young, Professor of Anatomy, University College, London: "The Brain as the Computer of a Homeostat"; "Breaking the Code of the Brain"; "Motivation and the Addressing of Signals of Reward"; "The Nature of the Change during Learning"

1960
Rudolf Florin, Bergius Professor, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: "Botany and Geography of the Past as Bases of Historical Plant Geography"; "The Sequoia Family"; "The Pine Family"; "The Podocarp Family"; "General Considerations"
1959
Wassily Leontief, Professor of Economics, Harvard University: "The Fall and Rise of Soviet Economics"; "The Present State of Economic Science"; "The Study of Economic Change"
1957
Sir Alexander R. Todd, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge: "Nucleic Acids - Structure and Function"; "Nucleotide Co-Enzymes: A Study in Synthesis"; "Vitamin B12: An Essay on Co-Operative Research"
Ojvind Winge, Professor and Director, Physiology Department, Carlsberg Laboratory: "Wilhelm Johannsen, the Creator of the Terms Gene, Genotype, Phenotype, and Pure Line"; "Malignant Growth and Chromosomes"; "On Complementary Gene Action in the Fermentation of Raffinose"; "On Deviations From 2:2 Segregation in Tetrads of Monohybrid Yeasts"
1956
Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University: "Recent Developments in Public Opinion Research"; "The 'Pollster' and the Historian"; "Problems of Measurement in the Social Sciences" I and II
Curt Sachs, Adjunct Professor of Music, Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Music, New York University: "The Genesis of a New Learning"; "The Character of Mankind's Oldest Music"; "The Character of Oriental Music"; "The Meaning of Pre-Western Music"
1955
Wolfgang Kohler, Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College: "Psychology and Physics"; "Psychology and Biology"; "Psychological Evidence and the Brain"; "A Study in Brain Physics"
Elvin C. Stakman, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota: "Plant Diseases: A Long Search for Scientific Understanding"; "Plant Diseases: A Constant Menace for Our Food Supplies"; "The Long Fight against Wheat Rust: Will It Ever End?"; "Can Science Assure the World's Food Supply?"; "International Cooperation in Scientific Research: Is It Necessary and Is It Feasible?"; "Scholarship: Is It a Luxury or a Necessity?"
1954
Rene J. Dubos, Member, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: "Disease, Life, and the Arts"; "Social and Cultural Determinants of Disease"; "The Germ Theory Revisited"; "The Tissues and Body Fluids as Media for Microorganisms"; "The Fate of Microorganisms In Vivo"; "Biochemical and Physiological Effects of Infection"
Walter Baade, Astronomer, Mount Wilson and Palomer Observatories: "The Development of Our Ideas about Our Galaxy and Other Stellar Systems up to 1925"; "A General Survey of Galaxies, Their Forms and Composition"; "The Recognition of Two Types of Stellar Populations"; "The Stellar Population II"; "Dust and Gas as the Basic Features of the Spiral Structure in Galaxies"; "Spiral Arms as the Birthplace of Stars of the Population I"; "Spiral Structure and Star Formation in Our Own Galaxy"; "The Nucleus of Our Galaxy as a Sample of the Population II"
1953
Harold C. Urey, Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago: "The Origin of the Planets"; "The Origin of the Moon's Surface"; "Chemical Evidence Relative to the Earth's Origin"; "The Composition and Origin of Meteorites"; "The Temperatures of the Ancient Oceans"
1952
Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor, Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society and Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge: "The Mechanics of Swimming"; "The Mechanics of Swimming of Microscopic Organisms"; "An Outline of the History of Theories of Turbulence"; "Demonstration Experiments with Rotating Fluids"; "A Scientist Remembers"
Joseph Hudnut, Dean, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University: "We are Building a City"; "The Bridge over the Golden Gate"; "The Beautiful Machine"; "The Common Man in the City"; "Paris in the Middle Ages"; "The City of Philippe Auguste"; "The Cathedral of Paris"; "The Environs of the Cathedral"
1951
Raymond E. Zirkle, Professor of Radiobiology, University of Chicago: "High-Energy Radiation and Mankind"
Arne Tiselius, Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry Institute, Royal University of Uppsala: "Some Recent Advances in the Biochemistry of Proteins"

1950
Joseph Needham, Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and Scientific Adviser, U.N.E.S.C.O.: "The Development of Scientific Thought in Chinese Civilization"
David Katz, Eneroth Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of Psychological Institute, University of Stockholm: "What Is the Bearing of Animal Psychology on an Understanding of Man's Nature?"; "Composite Portraitures and Typology"; "The Tongue as a Primitive Sense Organ" I and II; "Hunger and Appetite"; "On the Psychology of Sport"; "How Do Blind Persons Draw?"; "Coordinating the International Organizations in the Interest of the UNESCO Project" I and II
Heinz Hopf, Professor of Higher Mathematics, Swiss Federal School of Technology: "Some Topics and Point of View in Geometry"
1949
George Gaylord Simpson, Chairman, Department of Geology and Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, and Curator, Fossil Mammals and Birds: "Prehistory of Mammals"; "The Paradox of the Ancient-Recent"; "The Dawn of the Recent"; "Island Continents"; "Progress and Failure in Evolution"
1948
Bernardo A. Houssay, Director, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine: "Sexual Function in the Toad"; "Experimental Diabetes"; "Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes"; "Alloxan Diabetes"; "Hypophyseal Function in the Toad"
1947
Hans Albrecht Bethe, Professor of Physics, Cornell University: "The Fundamental Particles of Physics"
Edwin Powell Hubble, Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory: "Science: Its Nature and Its Responsibilities"
1946
Theodore C. Blegen, Professor of History and Dean, Graduate School, University of Minnesota: "Folk Culture and Immigrant Transition"
Irving Langmuir, Associate Director, Research Laboratory, General Electric Company: "Science for the Fun of It"
1945
Jacob Viner, Morton Hull Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago: "Problems in International Economic Relations"
Franz Weidenreich, Professor of Anatomy, the Peking Union Medical College and Honorary Director of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory: "The Physical Evolution of Man"
1944
Vincent du Vigneaud, Professor of Biochemistry, Cornell Medical College: "Biotin as a Member of the Vitamin B Complex"; "The Chemical Nature of Biotin and a Study of the Relationship of Its Structure to Biological Activity"; "The Essential Nature of the Labile Methyl Group in the Diet and the Elucidation of Transmethylation in Metabolism"
1943
Sewall Wright, Ernest D. Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology, University of Chicago: "Gene and Organism"
C. E. K. Mees, Director of Research and Development, Eastman Kodak Company: "Science and the Evolution of Society"
1942
A. H. Reginald Buller, Professor of Botany, University of Manitoba: "Structure and Function in the Higher Fungi"
1941
Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School: "The Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses"
James Franck, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Chicago: "Elementary Processes of Energy Exchange"

1940
Enrico Fermi, Professor of Physics, Columbia University: "High Energies and Small Distances in Modern Physics"
Wendell M. Stanley, Member, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: "The Nature of Viruses"; "Biochemical Properties of Viruses"; "Viruses and the Transition from Molecules to Organisms"
1939
John N. Northrop, Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: "Enzymes: The Regulators of Vital Reactions"
1938
Bjørn Helland-Hansen, Director of the Geophysical Institute of Bergen and Chairman of the Christian Michelsen Institute of Science and Intellectual Freedom: "A Review of Oceanography"
1937
Niels Bohr, Director, Copenhagen Institute of Theoretical Physics: "Modern Atomic Theory and Its Philosophical Implications"
Hans von Hentig, Former Professor of Criminal Law, Universities of Kiel and Bonn: "Detection and Suppression of Crime"
1936
Alexis Carrel, Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: "The Life Cells Outside of the Body and Its Significance"; "The Lindberg Apparatus and the Cultivation of Entire Organs"; "The Fluidity of the Body"; "Cells, Blood, and Mind"
Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Galton Professor of Eugenics, University of London and Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society: "The Logic of Experimentation"
1935
Stephen Timoshenko, Professor of Engineering Mechanics, University of Michigan: "Dynamic Stresses in Railway Bridges"; "Fatigue Cracks in Machine Parts"; "Railway Track Stresses under the Action of Moving Loads"
1934
Edmund T. Whittaker, Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh: "The Geometrical Description of Nature"
Wesley C. Mitchell, Professor of Economics, Columbia University: "National Planning"
1933
George Sarton, Associate, Carnegie Institution and Editor, ISIS: "Medieval Science and Medieval Culture with Special Reference to the Mediterranean World and the Arabic Writings"
Richard von Kuhlmann, Former Secretary of State, Germany: "The Great Powers Since 1800 and Their Relations Today"
1932
William De Sitter, Professor of Astronomy and Director, Astronomical Observatory, University of Leiden: "The Astronomical Aspects of the Relativity Theory of Gravitation"; "The System of Astronomical Constants"; "The Rotation of the Earth"
Peter Debye, Professor of Physics, University of Leipzig: "Single Molecules Measured with X-Rays"; "The Molecular Structure of Liquids and Solutions"; "Fine Structure of Rayleigh-Scattering"; "Modern Experiments Suggested by the Interionic Attraction Theory"
J. B. S. Haldane, Sir William Dunn Reader, University of Cambridge, Head of Genetic Department, the John Innes Horticultural Institution and Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution: "Evolution in the Light of Genetics"; "Enzymes"; "Biochemistry and Genetics"

1930
Joseph Erlanger, Professor of Physiology, Washington University: "The Analysis of the Electrical Manifestations of Nerve Action"
John Campbell Merriam, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington: "Nature and Our Philosophy of Life"
1929
Godfrey Harold Hardy, Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford: "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers"
1927
William Morton Wheeler, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard University: "The Development of Societies"
1926
Max Born, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen: "General Problems of Modern Physics"
Robert Hippolyte Chodat, Professor of Botany and Director, Institute of Botany, University of Geneva: "Some Studies in Botany"
1925
Lafayette B. Mendel, Sterling Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Yale University: "Newer Aspects of the Physiology of Nutrition"
1924
C. V. L. Charlier, Professor of Astronomy and Director, Observatory, University of Lund: "The Structures of the Universe"
Sir John Russell, Director, Rothamsted Experiment Station: "Modern Aspects of Plant Nutrition"

1920
Jules Bordet, Professor of Bacteriology, Parasitology, and Epidemiology, University of Brussels and Director of the Pasteur Institute: "The Theories of Coagulation of Blood"; "The Theories of Anaphylaxis"; "Some New Results Relative to the Conflict of the Organism with Invading Microbes"
1919
W. J. V. Osterhout, Professor of Botany, Harvard University: "Fundamental Life Processes"
Vito Volterra, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Rome: "Propagation of Electricity in a Magnetic Field"; "Derivate Functional Equations"
1918
George Fillmore Swain, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Quebec Bridge"; "The New Quebec Bridge"; "Subways and Rapid Transit in Cities"; "Water Power Legislation"; "Some General Principles and Disputed Points in the Evaluation of Public Utility Corporations"
1917
Andrews Millikan, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago: "Electricity in the Nineteenth Century"; "X-Rays and the Birth of the New Physics"; "The Electron - Its Isolation and Measurement"; "Brownian Movements and Sub-Electrons"; "The Structure of the Atom"; "The Nature of Radiation"
Irving Fisher, Professor of Political Economy, Yale University: "Price Movements"
1916
Thomas Hunt Morgan, Professor of Zoology, Columbia University: "The Bearing of Modern Work in Genetics on the Theory of Evolution"
1914
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Research Professor of Zoology, Columbia University: "Men of the Old Stone Age in Europe"
1912
Richard M. Pearce, Professor of Research Medicine, University of Pennsylvania: "Antiquity to 1880: The Efforts of Isolated Investigators"; "Pasteur and the Rise of Bacteriology"; "Present Day Methods and Problems in Medicine"; "Medical Research in American Universities: Present Facilities, Needs and Opportunities"
1911
Harry Fielding Reid, Professor of Dynamical Geology and Geography, Johns Hopkins University: "General Characteristics of Earthquakes"; "Origin and Propagation of Earthquake Waves"; "Practical Study of Earthquakes"
1909
Julius Stieglitz, Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago: "The Theory of Ionization and Some of Its Applications in Inorganic and Organic Chemistry"
A. D. Waller, Director of the Physiological Laboratory, University of London: "Physiology, the Servant of Medicine"

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