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Jan. 28, 2003 Harvard Professor To Speak at UNM On A Physicist’s Approach To Terrorism Dr. Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University, will present at the University of New Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 6, at 3:30 p.m. in Dane Smith Hall, rm. 123, on the UNM campus. The talk is part of UNM’s Center for Advanced Studies weekly seminars. His talk, “A Physicist’s Approach To Terrorism,” will begin by examining challenges to nuclear safety and then develop a broad scientific and humanistic perspective on the subject of terrorism. Wilson, born in London, England, received his Ph.D. in physics from Oxford University in 1949 with his thesis on the photodisintegration of the deuteron. Wilson has been at Harvard since 1955 where he is also an affiliate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, and the Program on Science and International Affairs. He serves on the board of directors of the Andrey Sakharov Foundation of New York. He has authored or co-authored more than 800 publications ranging from physics to the humanities. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information call 277-8602. ###

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