Speakers Starmus V
The speakers will give lectures within the framework of the main program of the Festival “Discover the Cosmos and Change the World”, participate in different panel discussions, as well as give free talks at different venues (full program to be announced soon). The full list of scientists and astronauts and the detailed program for all of these events, including the free lectures, will be announced later this year. A separate press release will cover the concerts, musicians and artists performing at Starmus V.
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Charlie Duke
Astronaut: Apollo 16
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Buzz Aldrin
Keynote Speaker, Astronaut: Apollo 11
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Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut: Apollo 17
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Russell Schweickart
Astronaut: Apollo 9
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Walter Cunningham
Astronaut: Apollo 7
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Alfred Worden
Astronaut: Apollo 15
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Gerald Griffin
Flight Director, Apollo Program, NASA
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Fabiola Gianotti
Physicist, CERN, DG
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Brian May
Musician and astrophysicist
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May-Britt Moser
Neuroscientist, Nobel Laureate
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Emmanuelle Charpentier
Microbiologist and biochemist
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Brian Eno
Artist, composer
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Martin Rees
Astrophysicist
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Tim Peake
Astronaut
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Richard Dawkins
Ethologist, evolutionary biologist
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Garik Israelian
Astrophysicist and Starmus Founding Director
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Helen Sharman
Astronaut and chemist
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Tony Fadell
iPod inventor, iPhone co-inventor, Nest founder, and Future Shape principal
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Bob Smith
CEO of Blue Origin
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Alan Stern
Planetary scientist and astrophysicist
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Clive Neal
Planetary Geologist
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Donna Strickland
Physicist, Nobel Laureate
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Claude Nicollier
Astronaut
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Nicole Stott
Astronaut and Artist
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Michel Mayor
Astrophysicist
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David Eicher
Editor, writer, and popularizer
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Carlos Moedas
European Commission
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Armen Sarkissian
President of Armenia, Physicist
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Gennady Padalka
Cosmonaut
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Jill Tarter
Astrophysicist
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Natalie Batalha
Astronomer
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Xavier Barcons
Astrophysicist, ESO General Director
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Edvard Moser
Neuroscientist, Nobel Laureate
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Mark Robinson
Physicist
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Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Astrophysicist & Chemist, President of the IAU
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Kip Thorne
Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
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John Logsdon
Space race historian
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Rafael Rebolo
Astrophysicist
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George Smoot
Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
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Robert Wilson
Physicist , Nobel Laureate
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Nergis Mavalvala
Astrophysicist
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Eugene Kaspersky
Cybersecurity expert
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Adam Riess
Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Biochemist, Nobel Laureate
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Garrett Reisman
Astronaut & Director of crew operations at SpaceX
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Barry Barish
Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
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Eric Betzig
Physicist, Nobel Laureate
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Sandra Magnus
Astronaut
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Brian Schmidt
Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
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Chris Hadfield
Astronaut
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Yuri Baturin
Cosmonaut
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Robert Williams
Astrophysicist
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Long Xiao
Planetary Geologist
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Oliver James
Chief Scientist at Double Negative Visual Effects
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Kurt Wüthrich
Chemist/Biophysicist, Nobel Laureate