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Berkowitz's ad hoc committee included LeonKass, an ethics and biology expert from theUniversity of Chicago; University of Pennsylvaniapolitical scientist Ellen Kennedy; and IsaacKramnick from Cornell University's politicalscience department. The Harvard members of thecommittee were Starch Professor of PsychologyJerome Kagan and Professor of German Maria M.Tatar...
That is the way Russell Mittermeier would like to keep this forest, and all the other forested areas of the world. The president of Conservation International, who is also a first-rate primatologist (A.B. Dartmouth, summa; Ph.D. Harvard), is part scientist, part activist, part barker and part kid. The kid, recently turned 49, is the same one who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., under the joint tutelage of a mother interested in the natural world, and Tarzan; Mittermeier continues to collect Tarzan novels and memorabilia. He and Peter A. Seligmann, CI's founder and chief executive, have...
Mittermeier the scientist is all seriousness and wonder. He has written or co-written several books, including a gorgeous, monster-size photographic work called Megadiversity, and hundreds of monographs on his beloved monkeys. A recent paper on a newly discovered species of marmoset, Callithrix humilis, shows the monkey at age two months: studious eyes, a tight, alert face and an aureole of gray and white hair. It looks a lot like Mittermeier, who would not mind the comparison...
Wilson said he felt particularly honored to win the prize as a social scientist, following in the footsteps of Nobel laureate and McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton, who became the first social scientist to win the medal four years...
NEON In 1910 a French scientist named Georges Claude applied an electrical charge to a tube filled with neon gas (as opposed to a filament in a vacuum) and created a new kind of illumination. Car dealers did the rest...