| Robert Shapiro Ph,D - Original air date: March 1986 |
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Robert Shapiro is Professor Emeritus and
Senior Research Scientist in the Department
of Chemistry at New York
University. He is author or co-author of over
125 publications, primarily in the area of
DNA chemistry, and in the origin of life. In
particular, he and his co-workers have
studied the ways in which environmental
chemicals can damage our hereditary material,
causing changes that can lead to mutations
and cancer. His research has been supported
by numerous grants from the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Energy,
National Science Foundation and other
organizations. Further details can be found
at the following website:
http://chemistry.fas.nyu.edu/object/robertsha
piro.html
Professor Shapiro was born on November 28,
1935 in New York City and obtained a BS in
chemistry, summa cum laude (1956) from the
City College of New York He received a PhD
degree in organic chemistry from Harvard,
under the supervision of Nobel Laureate R.B.
Woodward (1959), postdoctoral training in DNA
chemistry at Cambridge with Nobel Laureate
Lord Todd (1959-1960). After an additional
year of postdoctoral study at the NYU Medical
School, he joined the NYU Chemistry
Department in 1961. He has held a Career
Development Award from the National
Institutes of Health and has been awarded
(with physicist Paul Davies) the Trotter
Prize in Complexity, Information and
Inference for 2004.
In addition to his research, Professor
Shapiro has written four books and several
magazine articles for the general public. The
books include:
1. "Life Beyond Earth", co-author with Gerald
Feinberg, (Morrow 1980). This book advanced a
very positive view about the possibilities
for life elsewhere in the Universe. For
example, it discussed the possibility of life
in underground niches on Mars, in oceans
beneath the frozen surfaces of the satellites
of Jupiter, and in various environments
within Titan, a satellite of Saturn. Today,
these sites rank at the top of NASA's agenda,
in searching for life within our Solar
System. In addition, it described a number of
exotic possibilities for life based on
substances other than carbon or water.
Timothy Ferris, commented in a front-page
review in the New York Times Book Review:
"Informative and authoritative yet
venturesome and readable, 'Life Beyond Earth'
is one of the best books on Earth about life
elsewhere." The New Yorker observed: "For
people who like to rerad about solid
scientific speculation, this is an
exhilarating, informative, and ultimately
liberating book."
2. "Origins, a Skeptic's Guide to the
Creation of Life on Earth", (Simon &
Schuster, 1986). This work is described
elsewhere in this web site.
3. "The Human Blueprint", (St. Martin's
Press, 1991). This work described the current
and future course of the Human Genome
Project. It anticipated the use of DNA
testing to resolve the Thomas Jefferson-Sally
Hemings paternity question, and the Anastasia
controversy, as well as the use of DNA
analysis to track the historical movement of
human populations. It was an alternate
Book-of-the Month Club Selection for Sept.
1991, and in German translation, this book
was selected by the jury "Bild am
Wissenschaft" as the "Wissenschaftbuch des
Jahres" (Science Book of the Year).
4. "Planetary Dreams", (Wiley, 1999). This
work is described elsewhere in this web site.
Professor Shapiro has commented: "obviously,
I have developed a taste for very large
scientific topics".
When he is not involved in research,
lecturing or writing, he enjoys running,
hiking, wine-tastings, raquetball, and
travel. He and his wife Sandra, a clinical
psychologist practicing in New York, were
married in 1964. Their son, Michael, born in
1971, composes music for films
(http://mikemusic.com).
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