Please join us this Fall for the inauguration of a new series honoring the lives and accomplishments of the University's most celebrated scientists - faculty members who have been awarded Nobel Prizes, National Medals of Science or Technology, and MacArthur Fellowships.
Each evening will be introduced by a distinguished colleague of the prizewinner who will put the scientist's accomplishments in context. Then the prizewinner will be joined by interviewer Paul Costello, for a wide-ranging conversation about the honorees achievements, and the impact they have had on the honorees field and on the world in which we live.
This is your chance to engage with some of the most consequential thinkers of our day-people who have helped shape the scientific, technological, and economic fabric of the modern world. We are excited to recognize the seven honorees of the 2008?09 inaugural year of the series.
SIDNEY DRELL
Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
Sidney Drell won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984 for his work in theoretical physics and international arms control. He has been a senior adviser to both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government on national security and defense issues for more than four decades. In 2000 he received the Enrico Fermi Award, the nation's oldest award in science and technology, for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Also in 2000 Drell was one of ten scientists honored as "founders of national reconnaissance as a space discipline" by the US National Reconnaissance Office.
Drell's professional achievements and their impacts on society will be described in a 20-minute presentation by Philip Taubman, Stanford's Associate Vice President for University Affairs and former Deputy Editorial Page Editor The New York Times, who has specialized in intelligence issues and national security affairs during his twenty-eight years at the paper. He is the author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage.