Handout photo provided by the Royal Society shows Isaac Newton's 'Death Mask'. The Royal Society, the world's oldest science academy founded on November 20, 1660, celebrates its 350 years throughtout the year. (AFP/Royal Society/Richard Valencia) Posted on 01/31/2010 3:49:10 PM PST by decimon
Handout photo provided by the Royal Society shows Isaac Newton's 'Death Mask'. The Royal Society, the world's oldest science academy founded on November 20, 1660, celebrates its 350 years throughtout the year. (AFP/Royal Society/Richard Valencia)
LONDON (AFP) – From its classical pillars and porticoed entrance to its oil paintings of great men and women and archives that include the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton, history sits grandly on the Royal Society.
Scientists who visit its headquarters overlooking the tree-lined avenue that runs from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace tend to enter the building with the hushed awe of a religious devotee entering a shrine.
Created three and a half centuries ago this year, the academy can lay serious claim to having set down the foundations of modern science.
It promoted the demonstration of facts through experimentation. It replaced obscure Latin rhetoric with plain English as the language of scientific discourse.
It invented scientific publishing and the principle of peer review -- that a paper be assessed by independent experts -- which remains today the benchmark by which claims are vetted for credibility.
Even the Society's coat of arms, embedded in a stained-glass window, talks up the need for objectivity. "Nullius in verba" is its motto: "Take nobody's word for it."
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Nose of Newt ping.
But don’t take my word for it.
Looks like Robin Williams.
They both got hit on the head?
Impressive. Long live the Royal Society!
Looks like a physics text worth of names have been fellows.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has its roots in the Academy of the Lincei which was founded in Rome in 1603 as the first exclusively scientific academy in the world.
That was 407 years ago.
THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION
OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(1603-2003)
CASINA PIUS IV, VATICAN GARDENS, 7-11 NOVEMBER 2003
General Programme
WORKING GROUP ON ‘MIND, BRAIN, AND EDUCATION’
THE SESSION COMMEMORATING THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1603-2003)
WORKING GROUP ON ‘STEM CELL TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER INNOVATIVE THERAPIES’
Working Group on: Mind, Brain, and Education (7-8 November 2003)
Honorary President:
Prof. Rita Levi-Montalcini (PAS, Rome)
Coordinators:
Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires)
Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
Prof. Pierre J. Léna (PAS, Paris)
Friday, 7 November
8:45 Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires) Introduction
MIND, BRAIN AND EDUCATION: A NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Chair: Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires)
Opening Session
9:00 - Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
Developing Brain and Human Skills
9:40 - Prof. Wolf J. Singer (PAS, Frankfurt)
Neurosciences and Education
10:20 - Dr. John T. Bruer (McDonnel Foundation, St Louis)
Old and New Bridges Between the Neurosciences and the Educational Sciences
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 - Prof. Paul Ricoeur (Paris)
Subjective Mind, Objective Brain
12:40 - General Discussion
13:00 Lunch
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND COGNITION
Chair: Prof. Wolf J. Singer (PAS, Frankfurt)
15:00 - Prof. Daniel J. Cardinali (Buenos Aires)
Chronoeducation
15:40 - Dr. Hideaki Koizumi (Hitachi, Saitama)
Developing the Brain: an Approach Towards Learning and Educational Sciences by Functional Imaging
16:20 - Dr. Fiona Doetsch (Harvard)
The Origin of New Neurons: Stem Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain
17:00 - Coffe Break
17:30 - Prof. Maryanne Wolf (Tufts, Massachusetts)
Neurocognitive Research in the Diagnosis and Intervention of Developmental Dyslexia
18:10 - Dr. Robert J. White (PAS, Cleveland)
The Isolated Brain
18:50 - General Discussion
19:15 - Dinner
Saturday, 8 November
Neuroeducation
Chair: Prof. Pierre J. Léna (PAS, Paris)
9:00 - Dr. Stanislas Dehaene (Inst. National de la Santé, Orsay)
The Brain and Mathematics
9:40 - Prof. Paul van Geert (Groningen)
Dynamical Models and the Assessment of Individual Learning and Development
10:20 - Prof. Jürgen Mittelstrass (PAS, Konstanz)
Mind, Brain and Consciousness
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Prof. Michael Posner (Oregon)
Brain Changes During the Acquisition of High Level Skills
12:10 - Dr. Fernando Vidal (Max-Planck-Institute, Berlin)
The Modern History of the Mind/Brain
12:50 - General Discussion
13:00 - Lunch
Brain and Language
Chair: Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
15:00 - Prof. Laura-Ann Petitto (Darmouth College, Hanover)
Language, Bimodalism and Special Education
15:40 - Prof. Eraldo Paulesu (Milano-Bicocca)
Language, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
16:20 - Prof. Usha Goswami (Cambridge, UK)
Reading and the Brain, Educational and Neurocognitive Studies
17:00 - Coffee Break
17:30 - Prof. Yu Wei (Nanjing-SouthEast)
Cultivating the Emotion Competence of our Children
18:10 - Antonio M. Battro, Stanislas Dehaene, Kurt W. Fischer and Yu Wei
Proposal for an International Society on Mind, Brain and Education
18:30 - Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer, Juliana Paré (Los Alamos)
Proposal for a New International Journal
18:50 - General Discussion
19:15 - Dinner
The Session Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Foundation
of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1603-2003)
Sunday, 9 November
9:30 - Holy Mass celebrated by His Eminence Card. Prof. C.M. Martini,
Church of St. Stephen of the Abyssinians (Vatican City)
10:45 - Round Table on the History of the Academy:
Prof. Carlo Vinti (Perugia)
Federico Cesi, the First Accademia dei Lincei and the Moral and Methodological Commitment of the Researcher
Prof.Antonino Zichichi (PAS, Geneva - Bologna)
Galilei, Divine Man
Prof. Andrea Riccardi (Roma III)
The Restoration of Pius XI and John Paul II
11:45 - Coffee Break
12:00 - Prof. Nicola Cabibbo (President of the Academy, Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
The Meaning of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Today
12:45 - Lunch at the Academy
15:15 - Guided visit of the Vatican Museums (Sistine Chapel, Apollo and Laocoonte)
Working Group on:
Stem Cell Technology and Other Innovative Therapies
(10-11 November 2003)
Organising Committee: N. Le Douarin (PAS, Paris), T. Boon-Falleur (PAS, Bruxelles)
Monday, 10 November
9:00 - Prof. Nicole Le Douarin (PAS, Paris)
Introduction
9:30 - Card. Karl Lehmann (Mainz, President of the Bishops’ Conference)
Human rights and Bioethics
10:30 - Prof. Irving Weissmann (Stanford)
Stem cells: Overview
11:30 - Coffee break
12:00 - Prof. Ronald McKay (Nat. Inst. Neurological Disorder and Stroke, Bethesda)
Comparing the Properties of Embryonic, Fetal and Adult Stem Cells
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Prof. Azim Surani (Cambridge, UK)
Germ Cells: the Eternal Link Between Generations
15:30 - Prof. Helen Blau (Stanford)
Repair of Adult Tissues by Adult Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells
16:30 - Coffee Breack
17:00 - Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch (MIT, Cambridge)
Nuclear Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells
18:00 - Prof. Ann McLaren (Cambridge, UK), and .…, as leaders of the General Discussion
Tuesday, 11 November
9:00 - Prof. Thierry Boon-Falleur (PAS, Bruxelles)
Therapeutic Vaccination of Cancer Patients
10:00 - Prof. Alain Fischer (INSERM, Paris)
Gene Transfer in Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Perspectives, Results and Problems
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - Prof. François Sigaux (INSERM, Paris)
From Genes to Therapy
12:30 - Lunch
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Nobel Prize Members
During its various decades of activity, the Academy has had a number of Nobel Prize winners amongst its members, many of whom were appointed Academicians before they received this prestigious international award. These include:
Ernest Rutherford (Chemistry, 1908)
Guglielmo Marconi (Physics, 1909)
Alexis Carrel (Physiology, 1912)
Max von Laue (Physics, 1914)
Max Planck (Physics, 1918)
Niels Bohr (Physics, 1922)
Werner Heisenberg (Physics, 1932)
Paul Dirac (Physics, 1933)
Erwin Schrödinger (Physics, 1933)
Peter J.W. Debye (Chemistry, 1936)
Otto Hahn (Chemistry, 1944)
Sir Alexander Fleming (Physiology, 1945)
Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee (Physics, 1957)
Joshua Lederberg (Physiology, 1958)
Rudolf Mössbauer (Physics, 1961)
Max F. Perutz (Chemistry, 1962)
John Carew Eccles (Physiology, 1963)
Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964)
Manfred Eigen and George Porter (Chemistry, 1967)
Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg (Physiology, 1968)
Christian de Duve (Physiology, 1974)
George Emil Palade (Physiology, 1974)
David Baltimore (Physiology, 1975)
Aage Bohr (Physics, 1975)
Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979)
Paul Berg (Chemistry, 1980)
Kai Siegbahn (Physics, 1981)
Sune Bergstrom (Physiology, 1982)
Carlo Rubbia (Physics, 1984)
Klaus von Klitzing (Physics, 1985)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (Physiology, 1986)
John C. Polanyi (Chemistry, 1986)
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chemistry, 1986)
Jean-Marie Lehn (Chemistry, 1987)
Joseph E. Murray (Physiology, 1990)
Gary S. Becker (Economics, 1992)
Paul J. Crutzen and Mario J. Molina (Chemistry, 1995)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Physics, 1997)
Ahmed H. Zewail (Chemistry, 1999)
Günter Blobel (Physiology, 1999)
Ryoji Noyori (Chemistry, 2001)
Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry, 2004)
Other eminent Academicians include Padre Agostino Gemelli (1878-1959), founder of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and President of the Academy after its re-foundation until 1959, and Mons. Georges Lemaitre (1894-1966), one of the fathers of contemporary cosmology who held the office of President from 1960 to 1966, and Brazilian neuroscientist Carlos Chagas Filho.
Gallileo was among the first members.
You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_dei_Lincei
I think the writer anticipated controversy:
“...the academy can lay serious claim to having set down the foundations of modern science. “
My sincere hope is, after the debacle that is the Global Warming Fraud regarding the CRU at East Anglia University, that once again these words can be uttered without being cat-called a Global Warming DENIER ever again. 'Take nobody's word for it" should include the IPPC's and even Algore's.
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