STATEMENTS FROM SOME DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA SCIENTISTS

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PROPOSED CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CONTENT STANDARDS

Following are the distinguished California scientists whose letters to the California State Board of Education opposing the adoption of the proposed science standards are in the attached packet. Letters from Drs. Roberto Peccei (UCLA), James R. Arnold (UC Irvine), Burton Richter (SLAC), and Goéry Delacôte (Exploratorium) have been added since these were presented at the meeting of the CSBE on September 10.

Two Nobel Laureates, withdrawing from Associated Scientists

• David Baltimore, President of California Institute of Technology, member of NAS, Nobel Laureate

• Paul Berg, Director of Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University, member of NAS, Nobel Laureate

UC Berkeley

• Marc Davis, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, member of NAS

• P. Buford Price, Dean of Physical Sciences, member of NAS

• Carla J. Shatz, Professor of Neurobiology, member of NAS

• R. T. Tjian, Chair, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Biology, member of NAS

• Charles H. Townes, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics, member of NAS

UC Irvine

• Francisco J. Ayala, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Past President and Chairman of Board of American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of NAS

• R. Duncan Luce, Research Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Economics, member of NAS

UC Los Angeles

• Kumar Patel, Vice-chancellor for Research, recent President of the American Physical Society, former Director of Research of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, member of NAS

• Roberto D. Peccei, Dean of Physical Sciences

UC San Diego

• Walter Munk, Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, member of NAS

• Thomas M. O'Neil, Chair of Physics Department

• James R. Arnold, Harold C. Urey Professor of Chemistry, member of NAS

UC Santa Barbara

• France A. Cordova, Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor of Physics

• Matthew P. A. Fisher, Permanent Member of Institute for Theoretical Physics

• Evelyn L. Hu, Professor in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, QUEST (Center for Quantized Electronic Structures)

• Michael Witherell, Prof. of Physics, member of NAS

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

• Burton Richter, Nobel Laureate and Director of SLAC

Exploratorium

• Goéry Delacôte, Executive Director, and Physics Professor on leave from University of Paris