The SEARCHING Conversations Podcast
1) CERN.
CERN is the largest scientific instrument in the world, and it’s a collaboration between the European nations which funded it, and a global collaboration of researchers and instrument builders from m...Show More
2) Rai Weiss
Rai Weiss, born 1932, is a modern day Galileo: that might seem like hyperbole but he was a key player in designing, testing and then building an entirely new kind of astronomical instrument that can u...Show More
3) Micah Greenstein
Micah Greenstein is Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel in Memphis TN, Alan Lightman’s hometown, and a long-time friend of Alan, who describes him as “my rabbi." Rabbi Micah is a proponent of interfaith dia...Show More
4) Pascal Oesch
Pascal Oesch is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Geneva. He and his colleagues discovered a distant galaxy called GN-z11 which was, for half a decade, the oldest and most dista...Show More
5) Paolo Galluzzi
Dr. Paolo Galluzzi is now President Emeritus of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy, where he was the Director for many years. He’s a specialist on the life and discoveries of Galileo, and how Galile...Show More
6) Jack Szostak
Jack Szostak shared a Nobel Prize in 2009 for his work on telomeres, the short sequences of DNA found in chromosomes. But , as you can hear in this fascinating podcast, he thought that too many others...Show More
7) Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala is the first female Dean of Science at MIT. She’s a 2010 MacArthur “genius” fellow, and a key collaborator with Rai Weiss and the Caltech/MIT LIGO team, which won the 2017 Nobel Prize...Show More
8) Melissa Franklin
Melissa Franklin was the first woman to achieve tenure in the Physics department at Harvard. She’s an experimentalist who loves to build instruments and measure things, both wrists and ankles at dinne...Show More
9) Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is the Director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a leading expert...Show More
10) Rebecca Goldstein
Alan Lightman: “One of my longtime friends is Rebecca Goldstein. Like me, she’s a scientist and a novelist. She started studying physics at university, but switched to philosophy. One of the things sh...Show More