Eric Chivian

Eric Chivian

Eric S. Chivian is currently a professor at Harvard Medical School; he played a significant role in International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. [ [http://chge.med.harvard.edu/about/faculty/chivian.html] ] In the mid 1980s, he directed the first scientific survey of American and Soviet teenagers’ attitudes about nuclear war and the future for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and MIT’s Center for International Studies. Between 1980 and 1995, he was the staff psychiatrist in the MIT Medical Department [http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?t=people&type=browse&f=preferred_name&s=Chivian%2C+Eric+S.&record=0]

Chivian was also recently featured in the 2008 issue of "Time Magazine"'s top 100 most influential people in the world under the Scientists and Thinkers section.

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