Speakers:
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is President of the Aspen Institute, former Chair and CEO of CNN, Editorial Director of Time Magazine, and author of Kissinger: A Biography and the recent bestseller, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Isaacson, who was Editorial Director at Time when Einstein was chosen as Man of the Century, is currently completing a new biography of Einstein.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is an Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case, and also serves as Director of the Office of Science, Public Policy, and Biotechnology at Case’s School of Medicine. Krauss is author of the bestselling book The Physics of Star Trek, and the newly released Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions From Plato to String Theory and Beyond. Winner of various international awards in Physics, he also frequently appears on radio and television, and writes regularly for the New York Times.
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus is President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, former Director of the National Institutes of Health, and a 1989 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Dr. Varmus was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Michael Bishop for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, and is well known for his broad and cogent perspective on many different areas of science and their impact upon society.
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek is a Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, and a 2004 recipient of a Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. Dr. Wilczek is one of the world’s pre-eminent theoretical physicists, co-author of the popular book Longing for the Harmonies, and also a recent recipient of Case’s Michelson-Morley Prize.