Locally, the university and the sciences being part of the larger community, the Center will mount special events, including, for example, an annual series of public lectures on issues of science and policy. The program was ambitious, cramming into the one day enough topics and talks for a normal three-day academic meeting. The keynote was given by John Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Audience and media response was strong. The papers and discussions are now being readied for publication as a volume in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Modern science is conspicuously and increasingly a world-wide, indeed ecumenical enterprise.
The marginal cost of working in such a network is derisory, the intellectual rewards considerable. Back to Top Board of Advisors for the Center for History of Recent Science Nancy Cartwright, epistemologist, London School of Economics Philip Kitcher, philosopher and historian of modern biology, University of California at San Diego Peter Galison, historian, philosopher and chairman, department of history of science, Harvard University Joshua Lederberg, geneticist and molecular biologist and President Emeritus,Rockefeller University Wolf Lepenies, Rektor of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Robert Pollack, cell biologist, writer, professor, Columbia University Barbara Rosenkrantz, historian of medicine, Harvard University Kenneth F. Schaffner, philosopher, historian of science, University Professor of Medical Humanities, The George Washington University Funding Funding for the Center for History of Recent Science began with a large grant from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust. Back to Top Center for History of Recent Science Dept. of History The George Washington University 801 22d.