When
Date: Monday, October 18, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm
Location
Virtual Lecture
Monday, October 18, 2021 @ 12PM
Over 800 virtual attendees joined us for a discussion about the life in science of three prominent Nobel Prize laureates, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Jennifer Doudna and Elizabeth Blackburn.
Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, will moderated a discussion with Elizabeth Blackburn, Jennifer Doudna and Georgina Ferry, biographer of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
Susan Hockfield, President Emerita MIT, author of The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).
Georgina Ferry, biographer, author of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace, a life in science (Bloomsbury 2019)
Jennifer Doudna, subject of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster 2021)
Elizabeth Blackburn, co-author of The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
Presented by the Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Organizers:
Nancy Hopkins, Amgen Inc. Professor of Biology Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mila Pollock, Executive Director, CSHL Library & Archives, The Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology
Jan Witkowski, Professor, CSHL School of Biological Sciences