Wednesday, October 24, 2001 from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. at Beckman Auditorium

Nobel Laureates and Honored Speakers:

David Baltimore, President, Caltech (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975)

Rudolph A. Marcus, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Caltech (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992)

Edward B. Lewis, Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology, Caltech (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)

George A. Olah, Distinguished Professor and Director of Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute Chemistry , University of Southern California (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994)

Ahmed Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and Professor of Physics, Caltech (1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)


Presentations for the afternoon will include:

The Neurobiology of Intention
Richard A. Andersen, James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Sloan-Swartz Center for
Theoretical Neurobiology, Caltech

Imaging the Embryonic Universe
Andrew E. Lange, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech

The Impact of Total Synthesis on Biology & Medicine
K.C. Nicolaou, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry, and Aline W. & L.S.
Skaggs Professor of Chemical Biology in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, and
Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego


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