Interview Douglas Cormack
Douglas Cormack Name: Douglas Cormack Country: UK What is your background? Having obtained a 1st class Honours BSc and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Glasgow University, I spent 2.5 years at Woodshole in Massachusetts. Thereafter, I joined the UK Scientific Civil Service at my recruitment grade of Senior Scientific Officer. Thereafter, I [...]
Interview Richard W. Hurst
Richard W. Hurst Name: Richard W. Hurst Country: USA What is your background? My interest in science began at an early age due to my God-given inquisitive nature. I survived an operation at birth to repair a blocked esophagus that saved my life and, due to my parents’ desire to help future [...]
Interview Jilong Rao
Jilong Rao Name: Jilong Rao Country: USA What is your background? I realized the harmony of both Eastern and Western moral values in my childhood. Reading taught me influential thinkers from China and the West shared similar ideas about natural philosophy and natural law. In 1957, when I was a sophomore in [...]
Interview Stephen Dartt
Stephen Dartt Name: Stephen Dartt Country: USA What is your background? I earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at Princeton, I also took every Operations Research (applied statistics) class that was offered. I also [...]
Interview John Carr
John Carr Name: John Carr Country: France What is your background? I have followed a fairly typical academic career path, following a PhD in experimental physics at Imperial College, London in 1974. I held a number of academic positions around the world before settling in France in 1990 with a CNRS ‘Directeur [...]
Interview Jobst Landgrebe
Jobst Landgrebe Name: Jobst Landgrebe Country: Germany What is your background? I am a scientist and entrepreneur, specialised in Artificial Intelligence and Theory of Science. My education is in medicine, biochemistry and mathematics. My professional experience in the private sector is in pharmaceutical R&D and applied mathematics (Artificial Intelligence); in academia: theory of science [...]
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scientists and experts around the world have signed the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration. Who are these signees and what motivates them to sign the declaration? That’s what we explore in the interviews on this page.