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Date:
March
16
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2010
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| Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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| Location:
Hammer Museum
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| Address:
10899 Wilshire Blvd , Los Angeles , 90024
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Los Angeles
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90024
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Streets:
Wilshire
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Westwood
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| Region:
Westside/Beverly Hills Area view
map
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| Phone:
(310) 443-7000
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| Admission:
Free
: Free tickets are required for program entry and are available from the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office. One ticket per person. Hammer Members are entitled to priority seats for all public programs subject to availability.
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| Food
Services: Cafe Hammer by Wolfgang Puck
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| Accessibility:
Wheel Chair Access,
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Transit Tips:
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| Website:
hammer.ucla.edu |
Description:
Jared Diamond is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. A professor of geography at UCLA, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science. Australian paleontologist John A. Long is the recently appointed vice president of research and collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Long previously served as Head of Sciences for the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, and has been actively engaged in research on the early evolution of fish and dinosaurs. In 2001 Dr. Long won the Eureka Prize for the Public Promotion of Science.
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Submitted
By: Hammer Museum
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