Alfred Nobel (January 10, 12)

Stanley Prusiner (prion diseases) (Shepherd & Brau, January 15-19)

Otto Hahn (nuclear fission) (Brau & Shepherd, January 22-26)

Selman Waksman (streptomycin) (Hurder, Park, & Sellers, January 29 - February 5)

Baltimore, Dulbecco, and Temin (tumor viruses) (Holliday & Martin, February 7-12)

Albert Einstein (Photoelectric effect) (Huerta, Knadler, & Patten, February 14-21)

Crick, Watson, and Wilkins (DNA) No class on February 23 (Dinner at Shepherd/Brau house, February 25, at 5:30)

Marie Curie (Radioactivity, 1903, Radium, 1911) (Barnard & Cleary, February 26-March 2)

Penzias and Wilson (Cosmic background radiation) (Diggins & Kane, March 12-16)

Group 1: Ethics in Science (Huerta, Hurder, Park, Sellers, March 19-26)

No class on March 28

Group 2 The Bomb (March 30-April 11) (Diggins, Kane, Knadler, Patten, Brau, Shepherd)

Copenhagen (Bohr, Heisenberg, Uncertainty) (April 18) (Dinner at Shepherd/Brau house, 6:00)

Group 3 Women in Science (April 13-20) (Barnard, Cleary, Holliday, Martin)

Wrap-up (April 23)

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