Science in Modern Life


Impressions of Modern Science at Columbia University: An Interview with Jacques BARZUN [requires REAL AUDIO player] The relation between science and religion: Freeman Dyson wins the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion [requires REAL AUDIO player]
  Talk of the Nation: Science Friday [Discussions of Recent and Contemporary Science; see links for program archives] [requires REAL AUDIO player]
Science in American Life -- Smithsonian Institution exhibit  The Cost of Contemporary Science [interactive program about the budget of the United States; search for line-item costs for research]

The Nobel Prizes for 2000

 Faith and Reason project [on Science and Religion]

The Nobel e-Museum [Nobel Prizes]

 Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine [Oct 9]

 Four Thousand Years of Women in Science

  The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics [Oct. 10]

 Women in Astronomy [from the University of Toronto]

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [Oct. 10]

 Has the Bush Administration promoted Ideology over Science? A Report from the minority party [Aug. 8, 2003]
Links to announcements for 2003 prizes coming soon!  

From Fall 2000: Presidential Candidates Speak Out on Science Policy


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Comet Hale-Bopp over Lick Observatory, 1997