Stephen Hawking is a past recipient. Pellegrino is also the 1997 winner of the CBS Scientist of the Year. On April 5, the second lecture in the Einstein series will feature Dr. Pellegrino, who shared the 1995 expedition to the Titanic with filmmaker James Cameron and was a consultant on his Academy Award-winning picture. In 1996, he returned to the shipwreck and was joined by the U of R Department of Biology's own Dr. Roy Cullimore. He believes knowledge and fact morph.
Nothing remains the same.
The more dogmatic of the scientific community often feel antagonized by Pellegrino, says Cullimore. He's always questioning, but in a positive way. Pellegrino is the author of 12 books of science fiction and science fact. It was Pellegrino who suggested that the muscle tissue of prehistoric insects encased in amber could contain the DNA of dinosaurs and might be used to clone the ancient beasts. This idea lead directly to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and the subsequent movie by Steven Spielberg.