Friday, May 30th, 2008

World Science Festival / Kavli Awards

This week, the World Science Festival brings big thinkers from around the world to a five-day festival in New York City. In this segment, we'll talk with one of the organizers of the event about its purpose, and what the organizers hope to achieve. We'll also talk with two of the winners of the Kavli Prizes, a new set of million-dollar science prizes for achievements in nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics.

Guests

Brian Greene
Co-founder, World Science Festival
Author, "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" (1999, W.W. Norton) and "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" (2004, Knopf)
Professor, Mathematics and Physics
Columbia University
New York, New York

Thomas Jessell
Winner, 2008 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
Claire Tow Professor in Neuroscience & Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

Louis Brus
Winner, 2008 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, New York

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Segment produced by:Karin Vergoth

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