INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCE WORKSHOP MEMBERS Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is Chairman of the Science Workshops on Interstellar Communication. Professor Morrison is both a distinguished theoretical physicist and a respected scholar-philosopher whose ecumenical interests embrace the broad sweep of human and scientific history from the origin of the universe to the origins and definitions of intelligent life itself. He was one of the first scientists to predict that knowledge as to whether life exists on other planets may not be beyond our reach. Dr. Ronald N. Bracewell, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, has made numerous contributions in the field of radioastronomy and has been interested in the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence for many years. He is the author of the book "The Galactic Club: Intelligent Life in Outer Space." Dr. Harrison S. Brown, Professor of Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology, has made extensive contributions to science in the study of transuranium elements, meteorites, geochronology, physics and chemistry of the solar system, science and public policy, population problems, environmental problems, and natural resources. Dr. A. G. W. Cameron is Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University, and Associate Director for Planetary Sciences at the Center for Astrophysics. His areas of research interest include nucleosynthesis and associated areas of nuclear physics, stellar evolution, supernova explosions, neutron stars, quasars, physics of the interstellar medium, origin and development of the solar system, and physics of planets and planetary atmospheres. He is co-editor of "Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives," a collection of papers on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Frank D. Drake is Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and the Director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. His numerous contributions to the field of radio and radar astronomy are well known and widely acclaimed. He conducted the first organized search for extraterrestrial intelligent radio signals called Project OZMA. Dr. Jesse L. Greenstein, Professor of Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, has made extensive contributions in the study of the interstellar medium and stellar evolution. He was the Chairman of the Planetary Detection Workshops. Dr. Fred T. Haddock, Professor of Astronomy, University of Michigan, developed the radioastronomy facility at Michigan and is presently the Director of the University of Michigan Radioastronomy Observatory. Prof. Haddock is active in both ground as well as space based radioastronomical observations. Dr. George H. Herbig, is Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz. His research specialties include spectra of variable and peculiar stars, optical absorption spectroscopy of interstellar material and the early evolution of stars. Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz is Senior Vice-President and Director of AVCO Corporation and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the AVCO Everett Research Laboratory. He first became well known for his research in physical gas dynamics, and particularly for his pioneering application of the shock tube to high temperature gas problems. Dr. Kenneth I. Kellerman is Staff Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Kellerman is also the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee, Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Dr. Joshua Lederberg is Professor of Genetics and Biology, and Chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1958, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for studies on the organization of the genetic material in bacteria. Dr. Lederberg was the Chairman of the Cultural Evolution Workshop. Dr. John S. Lewis is Associate Professor of Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made numerous contributions in the study of the composition, structure and origin of planetary atmospheres and the application of thermodynamics to problems of composition and origin of meteorites. Dr. Bruce C. Murray is Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology and has made extensive contributions in the field of planetary imaging. In April, 1976 he became Director of the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Bernard M. Oliver is Vice-President of Research and Development for the HewlettPackard Corporation. Dr. Oliver was Co-Director of the 1971 Stanford/Ames Research Center Summer Faculty Fellowship Program for the Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, Project Cyclops. Dr. Carl Sagan is Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, and Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, where he is also Associate Director for the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research. His principal research activities are in the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, in space vehicle exploration of the planets, and on the origin of life on Earth. Dr. Charles H. Townes, University Professor at the University of California since 1967, received the Nobel Prize for his role in the invention of the maser and laser. Internationally known for his research on the interaction of electromagnetic waves and matter, and also as teacher and government advisor, he is affiliated with the Department of Physics on the Berkeley campus, and engaged in research in astrophysics. |