Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the Cornell University campus this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures and making themselves available to all members of the Cornell community.

George Mosse, Juliet Mitchell and Frank Press are three of Cornell's 16 current professors-at-large, outstanding individuals from the sciences, humanities and arts who, over six-year terms, make periodic visits to Cornell and are considered full members of the faculty. All three of this semester's visitors started their terms in 1993 and will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.

• George Mosse will give a lecture titled "Political Awakenings: Berlin, Exile and the Anti-Fascist Struggle," on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
• Ground-breaking psychoanalyst and feminist theorist Juliet Mitchell will give two public lectures in September: "Memory and Psychoanalysis" on Thursday, Sept. 19, and "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery . . . ?" on Monday, Sept. 23. And on Thursday, Sept. 26, she will lead a Women's Studies Program "brown-bag" seminar at noon in Cornell's A.D. White House, titled, "Family Values: The Child Support Act in Britain."
• This semester's third professor-at-large is Frank Press, senior fellow with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., and former president of the National Academy of Sciences. His lecture, "Out of Chaos: A Better Way to Support Science," will be given on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

George Mosse, Bascom Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has written more than 15 books, including Nazism, A Historical and Comparative Analysis of National Socialism; Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism; and Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe.

Born in Berlin to a Jewish family that published Germany's leading newspaper, Mosse fled the Nazis in 1933, traveling first to France and later to England to study at Cambridge University. He eventually became a U.S. citizen, receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees at Haverford College and Harvard University, respectively, and teaching at the University of Iowa before joining the University of Wisconsin's faculty in 1955. Last year he was the first historian-in-residence at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In addition to his public lecture at Cornell, Mosse will participate in seminars with students and hold extensive office hours.

Juliet Mitchell, who studied as an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford University, made major contributions to the feminist revolution of the 1970s with her 1974 book Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and a book on women and politics, Women's Estate, as well as a number of collections of her own writings. She also is the editor or co-editor of important collections of works by other noted scholars, including Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein.

Mitchell is a practicing psychoanalyst in London and a full member of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She recently was appointed to a post on the Faculty of Social and Political Studies at Cambridge University to teach gender and psychoanalysis. A well-known speaker and author on both sides of the Atlantic, she has held a Mellon visiting professorship at Yale University and is the first recipient of a professorship-at-large to have been sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women.

"Juliet Mitchell has been a crucial figure for the re-examination of psychoanalysis by and for feminist theory," said Mary Jacobus, John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell. "She was the first person to argue that Freud had a great deal to offer feminism; she blazed that trail in the '70s and has continued to work in both feminism and psychoanalysis for the past two decades."

Frank Press, who holds a Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia University and 27 honorary doctorates, has directed the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and chaired the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Jimmy Carter, one of four U.S. presidents whom he has advised on scientific issues. He three times was named the most influential American scientist in annual surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report.

Press is internationally recognized for his study of the sea floor and of the earth's crust and deep interior and helped bring about the International Geophysical Year, the first worldwide attempt to measure and map various geophysical phenomena. He is co-author of the textbook Earth, widely used in American and foreign universities.

The Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large was started in 1965 in honor of Cornell's centennial and is named after Cornell's first president, with whom the idea originated. Concerned that the school's first faculty members, "remote from great cities and centers of thought and action, [might] lose connection with the world at large, save through books," White proposed a system of non-resident professors, chosen for their achievements in diverse disciplines and walks of life, who would visit the university periodically over extended periods.