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Edward T. Hall
January and August, 1990



Cultural anthropologist and author of 15 books, Edward has explored cross-cultural perception and behavior and intercultural relations. He developed Proxemics, a field of study that looks at the personal and social space people create in different cultural situations. During the second part of his fellowship, he worked with a wide variety of Exploratorium staff on issues concerning cross-cultural communication and perception in exhibits and programs within the museum.

Philip Morrison & Phylis Morrison
July and August, l989



Philip, astrophysicist and Institute Professor at MIT, is also a book review editor of 'Scientific American'. Together with his wife Phylis, a noted art and science educator, he created the PBS series 'The Ring of Truth'. During their Osher fellowship, the Morrisons worked with Explainers, exhibit development staff, and Exploratorium teachers on ideas that ranged from cosmology to cognition.

Richard Gregory
March l989



Richard is an internationally known visual perception scientist, author of many books on perception, editor of the recent book 'The Oxford Companion to the Mind', and founder of the Exploratory, a new science center in Bristol. He assisted us in a variety of perception and physics exhibit development projects and worked extensively with our high school Explainers.

Oliver Sacks
April and July, 1988



Oliver is a professor of clinical neurophysiology, Alfred Einstein School of Medicine, New York, and author of numerous books including 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' and 'Seeing Voices'. He helped in our development of a temporary exhibition called 'Memory'.

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