Jean Strouse Historian and Biographer Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan, American Financier (1999, 2014) and Alice James, A Biography (1980, 2011), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Vogue, and Slate. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she has received fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations, served as President of the Society of American Historians, and worked as a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is currently Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. Participant In: Particle Fever / The Quest Saturday, February 21, 2015 Film Screening: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Q&A: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm (Intermission) Roundtable: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of the film in its entirety, our afternoon… read more »
Particle Fever / The Quest Saturday, February 21, 2015 Film Screening: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Q&A: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm (Intermission) Roundtable: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of the film in its entirety, our afternoon… read more »