Ben Zuckerman

Ben Zuckerman, Ph.D., "is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. Dr. Zuckerman is a longtime environmentalist who has been very involved with the Sierra Club's population/immigration/environment debate and was an elected member of the Sierra Club's national board of directors. He has developed and co-taught a UCLA Honors course entitled "The 21st Century: Society, Environment, Ethics" and has co-edited six books, including Human Population and the Environmental Crisis (Jones & Bartlett, 1995). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. "

"Dr. Benjamin Zuckerman is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has co-edited six books, including "Extraterrestrials, Where Are They?" (Cambridge University Press 1995), "The Origin and Evolution of the Universe" (Jones & Bartlett 1996), and "Human Population and the Environmental Crisis" (Jones & Bartlett 1995). Dr. Zuckerman's interest in other planets has not outweighed his concerns for this one, and to that end he is a member of the Board of Directors of Californians for Population Stabilization and was on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club 2002-2005. Dr. Zuckerman is a Guggenheim fellow, and has received the Bok Prize from Harvard University, the Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society, and the Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific."

"He served on the National Board of Directors of the Sierra Club from 2002-2005."


 * Director, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
 * Vice-President, Californians for Population Stabilization
 * Statistical Oversight Board, NumbersUSA
 * Advisory Board, Progressives for Immigration Reform

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