Smithsonian Magazine: November 2005

Features

35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis

In Katrina's aftermath, the trumpeter has rallied support for his native New Orleans
By Tom Piazza

35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates

The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
By Jimmy Carter

35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin

An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
By Elizabeth Royte

35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey

The leader of the Hominid Gang asks what he can do for his continent
By Virginia Morell

35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper

He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
By Richard Ellis

35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant

Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
By Gary Paul Nabhan

35 Who Made a Difference: Andy Goldsworthy

Using nature as his canvas, the artist creates works of transcendent beauty
By Arthur Lubow

35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge

His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
By Terence Monmaney

35 Who Made a Difference: Daphne Sheldrick

When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary
By Douglas Chadwick

35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor

Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater
By Edward Rothstein

35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry

A Kentucky poet draws inspiration from the land that sustains him
By Paul Trachtman

35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson

Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
By Robert Wright

35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson

Come one, come all. Share the sky with the father of sidewalk astronomy
By Don Moser

35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner

He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt
By Alexander Stille

35 Who Made a Difference: Sally Ride

A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission
By K.C. Cole

35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson

Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
By Robin Marantz Henig

35 Who Made a Difference: Renée Fleming

The soprano is renowned for her beguiling voice and presence
By Stephen Hastings

35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough

The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience
By Frans Lanting

35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough

The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience
By Frans Lanting

35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson

After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
By Smithsonian magazine

35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson

In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
By Craig Canine

35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Angelou

By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others
By Richard Long

35 Who Made a Difference: Yo-Yo Ma

Humanitarian, globe-trotting teacher, good sport, ice-dancing fan and heckuva nice guy. Oh, and he plays the cello
By Joshua Kosman

35 Who Made a Difference: Ed Bearss

On any battlefield, he strikes the mystic chords of memory
By Adam Goodheart

35 Who Made a Difference: Frank Gehry

The architect's daring, outside-the-box buildings have revitalized urban spaces
By Robert Duffy

35 Who Made a Difference: Janis Carter

The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild
By Douglas Foster

35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses

A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics
By Neil Henry

35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Lin

The architect melds surface simplicity and underlying intellectual complexity into works of enduring power
By Michael Parfit

35 Who Made a Difference: Douglas Owsley

Dead people tell no tales—but their bones do, when he examines them
By Aaron Elkins

35 Who Made a Difference: Steven Spielberg

A renowned director contemplates the lessons of history
By Kenneth Turan

Innovators of Our Time

We mark Smithsonian's 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who've enriched the magazine and our lives
By The Editors

Departments

Indelible Images

A Night at the Opera

Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce
By Matthew Gurewitsch

Presence of Mind

After the Deluge

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a writer looks back at the repercussions of another great disaster—, the Mississippi flood of 1927
By John M. Barry

Editor's Note

Noxious Bogs & Amorous Elephants

Smithsonian's birth, 35 years ago, only hinted at the splendors to follow
By Carey Winfrey

From the Secretary

One of a Kind

From the beginning, Smithsonian has looked beyond the Institution
By Lawrence M. Small, Secretary

This Month in History

November Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable
By Alison McLean

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