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Date: Feb. 23 1996
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Talk Addresses ``The Transformation of Molecular Biology''

Princeton, N.J.--Horace Freeland Judson, director of George Washington University's Center for History of Recent Science, will speak on ``The Transformation of Molecular Biology: 1970 to the Present Day'' on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 6, Robertson Hall.

Judson, who is also research professor of history at George Washington University, considers himself ``a writer by trade and an academic by accident.'' He has been an editor, copywriter, book reviewer, theater and art critic, foreign correspondent, social historian, and the author of several books. He is best-known for The Eighth Day of Creation , a history of molecular biology from its origins to the early 1970s; a second edition of the book will be published in the spring of 1996.

He has been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 1987, he was named a prize fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

He has been a consultant, among other such appointments, to the Office of Technology Assessment and the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa; he is a consultant for books in science and history and philosophy of science for Harvard University Press. He has been a guest speaker or lecturer at many American, English, and Continental Universities. He is presently completing a book about fraud and other misconduct in science.

Judson's talk is being sponsored by the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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