The People I Will Invite to the White House. . . When I am President

 Leonard Susskind: Professor Theoretical Physics Stanford
 The man is simply amazing. I cannot begin to say how fascinating I find this guy.





Stephen Hawking: Director of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge
Iconic figure in physics because of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) which has confined him to a wheel chair and is slowly choking off his ability to move. He has had all kinds of crazy theories that I haven't even read yet. From what I gather he and Susskind have been having an intellectual dog fight and his intellect is on that kind of level I would love to talk to him.








Robert Sapolsky: Professor of Biological Sciences, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford
I don't know that I can pinpoint one area of Sapolsky's research I am interested in. He just seems to pop up in anything interesting.
















Philip Zimbardo: Professor Emeritus Stanford
Truth be told I haven't thought of Zimbardo in a while but his past research (Stanford Prison experiment) was brilliant and I would love to just get his opinion on what has been happening in the field and if he is researching anything presently.






Neil deGrasse Tyson: Director of the Hayden Planentarium
Outspoken advocate of science and how it can make the world a better place, of course I want to talk to this guy.








Michio Kaku: Professor Theoretical Physics, City College of New York
Self proclaimed popularizer of science, he has a way of reducing complicated subjects to approachable matter. He also built an atom smasher in his parents garage for his high school science fair project.






Of the Non-Scientist Crowd:

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich: hosts of RadioLab Podcast
A show about the intersection of science, reality, and belief. If you have to ask why I would invite these two you clearly have never listened to RadioLab.














Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman: Hosts of Mythbusters:
Legitimate science in popular form is just as important as the esoteric science.












Here are the questions though:
1) Hawking isn't an American do I care? I don't think I do and everyone else is American so I think I get a pass on that.
2) Do I invite them all as a group or individually? I think I want to do it individually so that way I can actually get some good face time with each one of them.