:: participants ::
The following distinguished people are participating in the workshop, and many of them will also contribute chapters to the subsequent research volume. Other eminent people are participating as pre-symposium discussants.
co-hosts
Owen Gingerich, Ph.D., Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science and former Chair, History of Science Department, Harvard University; Senior Astronomer Emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Member and former Vice President, American Philosophical Society; former Chairman, US National Committee of the International Astronomical Union; former Councilor, American Astronomical Society; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and International Academy of the History of the Sciences
Charles L. Harper, Jr., D.Phil., Executive Director and Senior Vice President, John Templeton Foundation; Formerly Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Associate, Harvard College Observatory; National Research Council Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston (research areas: planetary science, geo/cosmochemistry, galactic chemical evolution and nuclear cosmochronology, cosmology)
core participants
John D. Barrow, D.Phil., D.Sc., F.R.S.; Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge and the Gresham Professor of Astronomy; Recipient of the 1989 Locker Prize for Astronomy and the 1999 Kelvin Medal of the Royal Glasgow Philosophical Society; Author of 15 books, including The Anthropic Cosmological Principle and, most recently, The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega
Pre-Conference Paper: "The Sensitive Chemist"
CV: John D. Barrow
Julian Chela-Flores, Ph.D.; Staff Associate, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Research Associate, School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; Co-Director, Trieste Conferences on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life; Fellow of the Latin American Academy of Sciences, the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Creative Endeavors (Moscow), and a Corresponding Member of the Academia de Fisica, Matematicas y Ciencias Naturales (Caracas); Author and Editor of several books on astrobiology
Simon Conway Morris, Ph.D., F.R.S.; Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge; Co-Recipient of the 1987 Walcott Medal, National Academy of Sciences (USA); Recipient: 1989 Charles Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society (USA); 1992 George Gaylord Simpson Prize, Yale University; 1998 Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London; Author of the just-published book: Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe and The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
Paul C. W. Davies, Ph.D.; Professor of Natural Philosophy, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University, Sydney; Visiting Researcher, NASA Astrobiology Institute; Recipient of the 1995 Templeton Prize; Author of 25 books, including The Mind of God, About Time, The Fifth Miracle, and most recently How to Build a Time Machine
Christian de Duve, M.D.; Founder-Administrator, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Louvain Medical School, Brussels; Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Louvain Medical School; Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Biochemical Cytology, Rockefeller University; Recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (jointly with Albert Claude and George Palade); Author of A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, Blueprint for a Cell, Vital Dust, and, most recently, Life Evolving
Michael J. Denton, M.D., Ph.D.; Senior Research Fellow in Human Genetics, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Author of Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe; Authority on L.J. Henderson
Albert Eschenmoser, Dr.Sc.Nat.; Professor Emeritus, General Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH); Professor, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (CA); Member of the German Academy Leopoldina (Halle), Academia Europaea (UK) and the Pontifical Academy (Vatican); Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), the National Academy of Sciences (Washington), the Royal Society (UK), the Academy of Science in Göttingen, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb), the orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Berlin), and the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Wien)
Stephen J. Freeland, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); Former Lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology, Long-Term Fellow of the Human Frontiers Science Program, and Visiting Fellow in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Gerald Gabrielse, Ph.D.; Leverett Professor of Physics and Former Chair, Department of Physics, Harvard University; Spokesperson for the ATRAP (Antihydrogen TRAP) Collaboration with CERN; Fellow of the American Physical Society; Recipient of Harvard's 2000 Levenson Prize for Excellence in the Education of Undergraduates and the 2002 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society
John F. Haught, Ph.D.; Thomas Healey Distinguished Professor of Theology, Georgetown University; Second Recipient, Owen Garrigan Award in Science and Religion; Founder, Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion; Author of Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution; Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution; God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution; and Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation
William Klemperer, Ph.D., D.Sc.; Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University; Former Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The National Science Foundation; Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society; Recipient of the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics from The American Chemical Society, the Earle K. Plyler Award from The American Physical Society, the Bomen Michelson Award from The Coblentz Society, the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (ACS), the Faraday Medal - The Royal Society of Chemistry (England), and the 2001 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy (ACS)
Mario Livio, Ph.D.; Senior Astrophysicist and Former Head, Science Division, Space Telescrope Science Institute (which conducts the scientific program of the Hubble Space Telescope); Author of The Accelerating Universe and The Golden Ratio.
Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Ph.D.; Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Chair, Bi-Annual Harvard-Smithsonian Conference Series on Theoretical Astrophysics; Recipient of the 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the 1999 Bergmann Memorial Award of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Everett I. Mendelsohn, Ph.D.; Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University; Past President, the International Council for Science Policy Studies; Co-Founder, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security and the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies; Co-Founder and first President of the Cambridge-based Institute for Peace and International Security; Recipient of the 1991 Gregor Mendel Medal of the reorganized Czechoslovak Academy of Science, 1994 Olof Palme Professorship in Sweden, and the 1996 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize; Founder and Former Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology; Co-founder of Sociology of the Sciences; Editorial Board Member, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Social Science and Medicine; Social Epistemology; Social Studies of Science; and Fundamenta Scientiae
Harold J. Morowitz, Ph.D.; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, Staff Scientist, and former Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University; Co-Chairman, Science Advisory Board at the Santa Fe Institute; Former Editor-in-Chief of Complexity: An International Journal of Complex & Adaptive Systems; Author of the monographs Energy Flow in Biology, Foundations of Bioenergetics, and The Beginnings of Cellular Life; four textbooks; and a number of trade books, including The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life, and The Emergence of Everything; How the World Became Complex
Martin A. Nowak, Ph.D.; Professor of Mathematics and of Biology and Director of the Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Former Director, Program in Theoretical Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Author of Virus Dynamics; Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Journal of Theoretical Biology, and Journal of Theoretical Medicine
Edward T. Oakes, S.J., Ph.D.; Chester & Margaret Paluch Professor of Theology, University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, the Catholic Seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago; Author of Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar (co-editor), and the forthcoming Radical Naturalism: An Essay in Darwinian Platonism
Guy Ourisson, Ph.D. (Harvard, Paris); Founding President and Professeur émérite à l'Université Louis Pasteur, Centre de neurochimie, Strasbourg; Member of 12 National Academies, including the American Academy of Letters and Sciences; Past President and Current Member, French Académie des Sciences; Former Director, Institut de Chimie des Substances naturelles, Gif-sur-Yvette; Commander, French Orders of Légion d'Honneur, Ordre du Mérite, Palmes Académiques; Holder of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure (Gold and Silver); Honorary Fellow of the Swiss Chemical Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Former European Editor, Tetrahedron Letters
Dimitar D. Sasselov, Ph.D.; Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; 1999 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; 1993 Hubble Fellow; Member, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, Canadian Astronomical Society, and Royal Astronomical Society; Co-Author (with M. Takeuti), Stellar Pulsation: Nonlinear Studies and Pulsating Stars; Editor, Luminous High-Latitude Stars
Jeffrey P. Schloss, Ph.D.; Professor and Chair of Biology, Westmont College; Danforth Fellow; AAAS Fellow in Science Communication; Co-Editor — Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue; Journal of Psychology & Theology two-volume series on evolutionary and theological perspectives on personhood; and the forthcoming Evolution and Ethics: Scientific and Theological Perspectives on Natural Good; Editorial and Advisory Board Member, Zygon, the Journal of Theology & Science, Science & Christian Belief, Research News in Science & Religion, and Science & Spirit
D. Eric Smith, Ph.D.; Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Researcher, Earth and Environmental Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Advanced Sonar Group, Applied Research Laboratories, the University of Texas at Austin
Jack W. Szostak, Ph.D.; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Alex Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Recipient with Gerald Joyce of the 1994 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and the 1997 Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Recipient of the 2000 Medal of the Genetics Society of America
Patrick Thaddeus, Ph.D.; Professor of Astronomy and Applied Physics, Harvard University; Senior Space Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Staff Member, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; former Research Physicist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; former Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge; 1994 Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology; Recipient: 2001 Herschel Medal, Royal Astronomical Society; 1985 and 1970 Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, NASA; 1983 Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientist; 1976 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences
George M. Whitesides, Ph.D.; Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Former Department Chairman, Harvard University; Recipient of the 2000 Von Hippel Award (Materials Research Society), the 1999 Award for Excellence in Surface Science (the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation), the 1998 National Medal of Science, and many others; Member, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Science; Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy; Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India; Former Member of several National Research Council Boards, several National Science Foundation Advisory Committees and Panels, and Department of Defense Agencies and Councils; Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Chemistry of Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry & Biology, Langmuir, Nanotechnology, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, and Sensors and Actuators
Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D.; Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, and Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Recipient of Regent and Graduate Mentor Fellowships, University of California, Santa Barbara; Past Whitaker Foundation Investigator and American Cancer Society Fellow, MIT; Co-Discoverer (with Alexander Rich of MIT) of a self-assembling peptide system, selected as one of the 15 most significant research achievements over the last quarter century at MIT and for which he holds three US patents and seven pending patents; Member, AAAS, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Human Genome Organization of the Americas, Protein Society, New York Academy of Sciences, and International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life; 2003 Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
other involved scholars
The Rev. Dr. George V. Coyne, S.J.; Director, Vatican Observatory
J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva; Professor of Chemistry, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Gerald F. Joyce, M.D., Ph.D.; Professor of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Ian Stewart, Ph.D.; Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics Institute and Director, Mathematics Awareness Centre, University of Warwick
Howard J. Van Till, Ph.D.; Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emeritus, Calvin College
R. J. P. Williams, Ph.D., F.R.S.; Emeritus Research Professor, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford
Robert Wright; Author
program management
Executive Project Director and Workshop Co-Host: Charles L. Harper, Jr., John Templeton Foundation: charper@templeton.org
Workshop Co-host: Professor Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: ginger@cfa.harvard.edu
Project Manager/Editor and Financial Overseer: Pamela M. Bond, Ellipsis Enterprises: pbond@templeton.org; ellipsisenterprises@comcast.net
Media Communications and Public Relations Director: Pamela Thompson, John Templeton Foundation: pthompson@templeton.org