The Art of Scientists - Robert Root

Speaker:

Bernstein

12 Apr 2006

7:00 PM

Kocimski Auditorium, Design College

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Robert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University and a MacArthur Award recipient. He is the author of numerous books, including Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, a book about how discoveries are made in science, and Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People. He is currently working on a project titled "The Essential Connection: The Arts of Scientists." As a scientist, Root-Bernstein has over a half dozen patents. In addition to his research on molecular complementarily, autoimmunity, and AIDS, he writes on scientific creativity and art-science interactions. He has also created five works of art based on his scientific research for publication or exhibit. The Donald R. Benson Lecture in Literature, Science, and the Arts.

This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.