Donald Ross Hamilton Memorial Lecture Series
1st
October 12, 1972 Victor Weisskopf
"The Role of Science in Today's Culture"
2nd
November 1, 1973 Harvey Brooks
"Are Scientists Obsolete?"
3rd
March 20, 1975 Rudolph Peierls
"Recollections of the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics"
4th
March 17, 1976 Sheldon Glashow
"Quarks: Are They the Ultimate Constituents of Matter?"
5th
March 2, 1977 Frank Press
"The Science and Politics of Earthquake Predictions"
6th
April 12, 1978 W.H.K. Panofsky
"The New Spectroscopy"
7th
April 10, 1979 I.I. Rabi
"Science at the Crossroads"
8th
April 22, 1981 Luis Alvarez
"Asteroids and Dinosaurs"
9th
April 29, 1982 Lyman Spitzer
"Space Telescope, Eye on the Universe"
10th
May 9, 1983 Carlo Rubbia
"Searching for the Carrier of the Weak Force"
11th
May 10, 1984 John J. Hopfield
"The Physics of Biological Memory"
12th
April 30, 1985 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
"Gravitational Collapse and the Problem of Singularities in General Relativity"
13th
April 22, 1986 Robert H. Dicke
"Experimental Physics is Fun: Recollections"
14th
April 28, 1987 Sidney D. Drell
"Arms Control & Star Wars"
15th
April 12, 1988 Frank Wilczek
"Scale Invariance: It's Not How Big You Are But How Fast You Reproduce Yourself"
16th
April 25, 1989 Martin L. Perl
"Electron, Muon, and Tau: Diversity in Discovery"
17th
March 9, 1990 Michael E. Fisher
"Universality and Singularity: Phase Transitions and our Understanding of the Physical World"
18th
April 2, 1991 Norman Ramsey
"Time and the Physical Universe"
19th
March 10, 1992 Abraham Pais
"American Science & World War II"
20th
March 30, 1993 Steven M. Girvin
"The Quantum Hall Effect: Universal Physics from Dirty Devices."
21st
May 11, 1995 Philippe Nozières
"Is Many Body Physics a Settled Issue?"
22nd
April 19, 1996 Daniel Kleppner
"Views from a Garden of Worldly Delights"
23rd
December 9, 1997 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
“In Pursuit of Pulsars – 30 Years On!”
24th
May 5, 1999 Sir Martin Rees
“Understanding the Beginning and the End: Our Universe and Others”
25th
March 2, 2000 Charles H. Townes
“The Sociology of Science Illustrated by the Laser”
26th
April 16, 2001 Gerard ‘t Hooft
“Quantum Field Theory, the Gravitational Force, and the Future of Quantum Mechanics”
27th
March 14, 2002 Dava Sobel
“Galileo: Working Scientist”
28th
April 22, 2003 Lawrence Krauss
“Einstein’s Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story”
29th
April 26, 2004 Herman Wouk
“A Hole in Texas” A Novel view of the Supercollider
30th
April 29, 2005 David J. Gross
“The Future of Physics”
31st
March 30, 2006 Steven Chu
“The energy problem: Our current choices and future hopes”
32nd
April 12, 2007 N. David Mermin
“Spooky Actions at a Distance?”
33rd
March 27, 2008 Arthur B. McDonald
“A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2km Underground”
34th
April 7, 2009 Larry Abbott
“Sense from Chaos: Phase Transitions in Neural Activity”
35th
April 8, 2010 Sir John Pendry
“A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter does Electromagnetism.”
36th
February 2, 2011 Sir Michael Berry
“Making Light of Mathematics”
37th
February 9, 2012 Leo Kadanoff
“Making a Splash, Breaking a Neck”
38th
April 25, 2013 Joe Incandela
“The Search for the Higgs Boson:Discovery at the LHC”
39th
April 3, 2014 Prof. Samuel Ting
“The Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station”
40th
April 30, 2015 Deborah Jin, JILA, University of Colorado
"Fun with Ultracold Atoms"
41st
April 7, 2016 Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara
"Strange Views of Space and Time: From Einstein to String Theory"
42nd
May 4, 2017 Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
"Topological Phases of Matter: Matter Can Arrange Itself in the Most Ingenious Ways" (Video)
43rd
April 12, 2018 Kip Thorne
"Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Colliding Stars"
44th
April 22, 2019 Elena Aprile
"The Xenon Project: At the Forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection"
45th
April 21, 2022 Steven M. Girvin
"Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution"
46th
April 20, 2023 Sylvester James Gate
"SUSY: Fifty Years of Scientific Odyssey Inspiring a Personal Quest"