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History Live: Stephen Turner in Conversation With David Brock
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation • Palo Alto, California • 22 April 2010

 Stephen Turner  

Stephen Turner

 

Stephen Turner founded Pacific Biosciences to transform the way humankind acquires, processes, and interprets data from living systems. Turner is the author of over thirty scientific papers in such fields as nanofluidics, genetics, cell attachment to chemically and topographically modified surfaces, x-ray lithography, and process modeling. He is listed as the inventor on nine U.S. patents and more than twenty published patent applications.

David Brock is a senior research fellow in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at CHF.

CHF’s Oral History Program captures and preserves the oral memoirs of notable figures in chemistry and related fields.

History Live presents first-person accounts of legendary careers before a live audience.


Join Us

The steering committee of the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Bay Area Chapter
cordially invites you to attend History Live in Palo Alto.

Please register by 16 April. Register online!

Thursday, 22 April 2010
 5:30 p.m. Cocktail reception

6:30 p.m.

History Live: Stephen Turner in conversation with David Brock
7:30 p.m. Dessert and coffee
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
1661 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304


Our Sponsors
CHF's Oral History Program is supported in part by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Eugene Garfield Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts (The Pew Biomedical Scholars Oral History Project), The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation, and the Society of Chemical Industry. Other important leadership support for CHF has been provided by BASF, The Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation, Huntsman International, DuPont, The Dow Chemical Company, Horiba, Ltd., and Sunoco, Inc.