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May. 30, 2008
World Science Festival / Kavli Awards
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| This week, the World Science Festival brings big thinkers from around the world to a five-day festival in New York City. In this segment, we'll talk with one of the organizers of the event about its purpose, and what the organizers hope to achieve. We'll also talk with two of the winners of the Kavli Prizes, a new set of million-dollar science prizes for achievements in nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics. |
Produced by Karin Vergoth
Guests
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Brian Greene
Co-founder, World Science Festival
Author, "The
Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate
Theory" (1999, W.W. Norton) and "The
Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" (2004,
Knopf)
Professor, Thomas Jessell
Winner, 2008 Kavli
Prize in Neuroscience
Claire Tow Professor in Neuroscience
& Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York -
Louis Brus
Winner, 2008 Kavli
Prize in Nanoscience
Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry
and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, New York
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