A Conversation with John Logan

A Conversation with John Maier

T his year marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of C60, the carbon cages affectionately known as buckyballs. Astronomers have long speculated that the molecules could be responsible for unusual features in the spectra of starlight, known as diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). After two decades of research, John P. Maier, professor of chemistry at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, r...

A Conversation with John Sulston

Sir John Sulston was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002. He won the prize for his discoveries concerning "genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death," along with his colleagues sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz. Dr. Sulston was founding director of the Sanger Centre, Cambridge, England, which he headed from 1992 to 2000. From 1993 to 2000, he led the B...

Harley and Friday Harbor: A Conversation with John Pickles

During the Association of American Geographers meeting of 2014, we interviewed John Pickles to document his memories of J.B. Harley (1932–1991) and the time period of the early to mid-1990s when the subfield of GIS and Society took form, including the November 1993 meetings at Friday Harbor and the publication of the edited collection Ground Truth (Pickles 1995). What follows is a jointly edite...

Views of a health policy activist: a conversation with Henry Waxman. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

Perspectives of an errant economist: a conversation with Tom Schelling. Interview by John K. Iglehart.