Donald Hornig, White House science adviser to former President Lyndon Johnson from 1964 to 1969, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel.
The free, public event is part of a year-long lecture series titled "Policy, Politics and Science in the White House: Conversations with Presidential Science Advisers," sponsored by CU-Boulder's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.
In addition to serving as science adviser, Hornig chaired a special committee of the National Academy of Science that examined alternatives for operating NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which led to the creation of the independent Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md.
Hornig, who also worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II where he developed a mechanism to set off the plutonium bomb, will address the role of science in the presidential decision-making process. Following his remarks, center Director Roger Pielke Jr. will interview Hornig, and the event will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
The series has previously hosted science advisers to Presidents G. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. The final series speaker will be George Keyworth, science adviser to President Ronald Reagan, on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Hale Science Building, room 270.
Additional information about the series, and Web casts, transcripts, audiotapes, photographs from past talks and a library of background materials are available at: . The center is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint program of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.