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Leon Kass
Leon Kass is a scientist trained as a biochemist, and is currently the Addie Clark Harding Professor at the University of Chicago and the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Toward a More Natural Science and The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature. In August 2001 he was appointed to head the President's advisory task force on human cloning. For insight into his thinking on bioethical issues, see his 1979 article—reprinted in the Winter 2002 issue of The Public Interest— titled "The Meaning of Life - in the Laboratory."