Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a member of Apple Inc.'s board of directors.

Daniel Schrag, professor of geology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University and professor of environmental science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Director of the Harvard University-wide Center for Environment.

David Shaw, chief scientist of D.E. Shaw Research LLC and founder of D.E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company. He is a former member of PCAST under President Bill Clinton and a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, where he co-chairs the steering committee for the council's federally funded High-Performance Computing Initiative.

Ahmed Zewail, professor of chemistry and physics at Caltech and director of the Physical Biology Center. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for research that allowed observation of exceedingly rapid molecular transformations.

Reprinted from Greenwire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500

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1. 1. b 06:47 PM 4/27/09

   It is about time that a President takes a genuine interest in science! Science has been in the doldrums during the Bush administration and I now think that once again science will be taken seriously. Thank you President Obama.
   H. Mack Brown, Ph.D.

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2. 2. eco-steve 10:58 AM 4/28/09

   Let's just hope that all this flag-waving will not reduce international scientififc cooperation. Science needs to be liberated from the pressure of patents if it is to succeed in its role of accelerating new discoveries that the entire planet depends on.

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