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The Nobel Prize represents the pinnacle of human achievement, honoring work that has had a transformational impact on the pursuit of knowledge. The Swedish embassy brought four of the winners for 2006 together for an extraordinary conversation. Join Andrew Fire and Craig Mello--the laureates in physiology or medicine--and John Mather and George Smoot--the winners in physics--for a rare and remarkable glimpse into some of the nation's finest minds. Part two of the episode is an interview with Medal of Science winner Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. (CC) Speaker(s):
Gunnar Lund, Swedish Ambassador to the United States
Albert Teich, director, Science & Policy Programs, AAAS
Andrew Fire, professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Craig Mello, professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
John Mather, senior astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
George Smoot, professor, University of California at Berkeley
Anthony Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
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