edited by Glenn T Seaborg (University of California, Berkeley)

Table of Contents (57k)
Preface (401k)
Chapter 1: The Role of Basic Research (596k)

In A Scientist Speaks Out — A Personal Perspective on Science, Society, and Change, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1951) Glenn T Seaborg shares some of his thoughts and reflections on his broad interests, from the formulation of national science policy to the promise of youth. During a distinguished career in science and public service that spanned more than 50 years, he published over 500 works and maintained a public speaking schedule that included about 700 speeches on a wide variety of topics. This volume is a collection of nearly forty of his more popular speeches and articles, directed at a mostly non-scientific and non-technical audience. Since this volume is a compendium of reprints, readers will be able to share some of Seaborg's thoughts, as he originally penned them.

• The Future Through Science
• Learning in the World of Change
• A Scientific Society — The Beginnings
• Science, the Humanities, and the Federal Government — Partners in Progress
• Time, Leisure, and the Computer: The Crisis of Modern Technology
• The Positive Power of Science
• A Scientific Safari to Africa
• A Journey to China
• Preparing for the 21st Century
• The Crisis in Pre-College Science and Math Education
• and other speeches