National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Members' Lectures

(90 lectures from 43 members)

James A. Van Allen The University of Iowa (In memory) The Modern Saga of Planetary Exploration
Don L. Anderson Caltech Eclogite Engine
George J. Annas Boston University American Bioethics after Nuremberg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights
Tanya M. Atwater University of California, Santa Barbara A Tectonic explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake  in Chinese
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine Biology to Ethics: The Biological Roots of Morality
Darwin’s Greatest Discovery: Design without Designer

Evolutionary Origin and World Expansion of Malaria
ZDENĚK P. BAŽANT Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES

MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I    Part II

R. Stephen Berry The University of Chicago Energy: Mysterious and Amazing, Conserved and Conserving
Ronald Breslow Columbia University HYDROPHOBIC AND ANTIHYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS ON ORGANIC REACTIONS
Shu Chien University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells Part I   Part II
Samuel Danishefsky Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Biology - Chemistry Frontier.Roger Adams Award Lecture
Arnold L. Demain Drew University, Madison Actinomycetes: Contributions to Medicine
Renata Dmowska Harvard University, Cambridge Dynamics of rupture through branched and offset fault systems
James L. Dye Michigan State University My half-century with alkali metals. From alkali metal anions to anionic electrons
Stephen J. Elledge Harvard Medical School Cell Division. Part I    Part II           GENETICS IS A STUDY OF HOW PROTEINS INTERACT, FOLD, AND FUNCTION. Part I    Part II
Nina V. Fedoroff Pennsylvania State University Plant Epigenetic Mechanisms   Genetically Modified Foods: Myths and Realities
Flattening the World: The Role of Science and Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Joseph Fraumeni National Cancer Institute Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation  In Spanish    In Russian
C. Randy Gallistel Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science An Information Processing Perspective on Conditioning
Gerson Goldhaber University of California at Berkeley and LBNL The Discovery of Dark Energy
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University Law Center Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health
Harry B. Gray California Institute of Technology Solar Fuel II: The Quest for Catalysts
John Emil Halver University of Washington How Se and C affect Fish Health
How Oleic Acid in Olive Oil Reduces Blood Pressure
John P. Holdren The Woods Hole Research Center, Harvard University Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being
Tony Hunter The Salk Institute Tyrosine phosphorylation: from discovery to the kinome and beyond ASBMB Tabor Lecture is available also at http://www469.pair.com/cammon/index.html 
H.R. Kaback Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles Inaugural lecture  Membrane Potentials and pH Gradients in Microscopic Systems: The Chemiosmotic Paradigm   Bioenergetics Ofion-Coupled Active Transport  The Model System: Preparation and Characterization of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles
Charles F. Kennel Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego Earth Observations: The View from Scripps
Sung-Hou Kim University of California, Berkeley A Global View of the Protein Structure Universe and Protein Evolution
Alexander Leaf Harvard Medical School, Boston The Beneficial Effects of Long-Chain, Polyunsaturated n-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids on the Cardiovascular System. Part I    Part II
Judith Lean Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Our Home in Space: The Sun-Earth System
Wen-Hsiung Li Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago Evolution by Gene Duplication Part I    Part II
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine, USA Illusions of Memory and Loss of Justice     in Spanish
A.I.Meyers Colorado State University Chiral Oxazolines - Their Legacy in Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation. Part I    Part II
Alexandra Navrotsky University of California at Davis Energetics of Nanomaterials and Zeolites
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University Lecture at the inauguration of the new Stockholm Resilience Centre (May 2007)

Halting Deforestation: Reflections from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Experimental Lab

Why Development Aid Has Failed So Often

Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons

Sustaining Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach

Arthur B. Pardee Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Regulatory Molecular Biology
Michael Posner University of Oregon EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-REGULATION
James R. Rice Harvard University, Cambridge Structure of Mature Faults and Physics of Their Weakening during Earthquakes. Part I     Part II
Leo Sachs  Weizmann Institute of Science The control of hematopoiesis and leukemia: From basic biology to the clinic
John H. Schwarz California Institute of Technology STRING THEORY: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Andrew M. Sessler Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 75 Years of Particle Accelerators. Part I   Part II

An Introduction to Cancer Therapy With Hadron Radiation

Shlomo Sternberg Harvard University General covariance and the passive equations of physics
Kip S. Thorne Caltech, Pasadena http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~kip/scripts/lectures.html Online lecture course on
gravitational-wave science 
http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/
Waldo Tobler Geography Department, University of California Geographic Location and Map Projections. Part I Part II         The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks. Part I Part II      Geographical Interpolation      Using Asymmetry to Estimate Potential. Part I Part II     Geographical Movement - Maps and Models. Part I Part II       Map Making for Social Scientists. Part I Part II    Unusual Map Projections. Part I Part II Part III      The Care and Feeding of Vector Fields. Part I Part II      Exploring Geography Cartographically. Part I Part II Part III   Resel Processing. Part I     Part II    Qibla Maps 
R.Zinkernagel Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland Infection. Tumor Grafts. Specificity. Memory. “Tolerance“

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