This edition: Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
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Original tape date: July 1, 2019. First aired: January 16, 2023.The series premiere of CUNY Laureates reintroduces three Nobel prize winners from throughout CUNY’s history. First, Arno Penzias’s attempts to eliminate interference in his radio antenna leads to one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. Rosalyn Yalow turns the nuclear science of a recent World War into a medical breakthrough. And John O’Keefe explores what taxicabs, video games, and the brain’s hippocampus have in common.
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Tuesday, August 11 - 5:00pm
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- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
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- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, August 14 - 5:30pm
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- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
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- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
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- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
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- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
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- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
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- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
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- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
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- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
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- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
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- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
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- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
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- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
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- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
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- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
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- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
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- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
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- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
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- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Friday, July 31 - 7:30am
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- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
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- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, July 24 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Monday, July 20 - 5:00pm
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- Monday, July 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 30 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, July 19 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
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- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
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- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Thursday, July 16 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Tuesday, July 14 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 7 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, July 13 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 2 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, July 12 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 26 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, July 12 - 7:30am
