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Francisco Ayala Former University Professor, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Shri Kulkarni Hale Professorship of Astronomy; former Executive Officer for Astronomy, Director of Caltech Optical Observatories
Leon Lederman Nobel Prize in Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Bruce Murray Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science and Geology, Caltech; former Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dimitar Sasselov Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University