This edition: Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
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Original tape date: May 10, 2023. First aired: June 19, 2023.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another two Nobel prize winning graduates from the City University of New York. First, Stanley Cohen grows some mighty medical breakthroughs from the smallest of scientific observations. Robert Hofstadter digs into the mysteries of atomic nuclei and finds a symphony of subatomic particles. And we learn about Brooklyn College’s history of blazing trails from the Great Depression to the present day.
Guest List
Joe Fodor Associate Director of Research, Brooklyn College Foundation
Marianne LaBatto Associate Archivist, Brooklyn College Library
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
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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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- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
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- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
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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
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- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
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- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
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- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
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- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
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- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
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- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
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- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
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- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, July 11 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
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- Saturday, July 11 - 5:30pm
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- Sunday, July 26 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, July 10 - 7:30am
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
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