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Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around. And probably amon...

Good news good news folks i know youre worried that everyone is suffering during this pandemic were lonely were scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time im going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no is not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing room only well americas billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 12. 5 percent during the lockdown period the institute for policy studies released...

Morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motely morehead iii attended carolina as an undergraduate in the school of chemistry, made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide, and he became an extremely wealthy man. In the 1930s, when he conceived of this idea, what he did as a leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium...

At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat a...

Businessman in the San Francisco bay area back in the 1800s. His fortune was over 3 million back in the 1860s. And he wanted to be remembered. And george davidson, the president of the California Academy of sciences and george madera, an astronomer, who showed him what saturn looked like through a small telescope, were some of the factors that convinced him that a scientific monument that would make great discoveries was the right way to go. So he decided he wanted the greatest telescope superior to any in existence constructed as his memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the ...