Donald Ross Hamilton Memorial Lecture Series1stOctober 12, 1972 Victor Weisskopf"The Role of Science in Today's Culture"2ndNovember 1, 1973 Harvey Brooks"Are Scientists Obsolete?"3rdMarch 20, 1975 Rudolph Peierls"Recollections of the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics"4thMarch 17, 1976 Sheldon Glashow"Quarks: Are They the Ultimate Constituents of Matter?"5thMarch 2, 1977 Frank Press"The Science and Politics of Earthquake Predictions"6thApril 12, 1978 W.H.K. Panofsky"The New Spectroscopy"7thApril 10, 1979 I.I. Rabi"Science at the Crossroads"8thApril 22, 1981 Luis Alvarez"Asteroids and Dinosaurs"9thApril 29, 1982 Lyman Spitzer"Space Telescope, Eye on the Universe"10thMay 9, 1983 Carlo Rubbia"Searching for the Carrier of the Weak Force"11thMay 10, 1984 John J. Hopfield"The Physics of Biological Memory"12thApril 30, 1985 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar"Gravitational Collapse and the Problem of Singularities in General Relativity"13thApril 22, 1986 Robert H. Dicke"Experimental Physics is Fun: Recollections"14thApril 28, 1987 Sidney D. Drell"Arms Control & Star Wars"15thApril 12, 1988 Frank Wilczek"Scale Invariance: It's Not How Big You Are But How Fast You Reproduce Yourself"16thApril 25, 1989 Martin L. Perl"Electron, Muon, and Tau: Diversity in Discovery"17thMarch 9, 1990 Michael E. Fisher"Universality and Singularity: Phase Transitions and our Understanding of the Physical World"18thApril 2, 1991 Norman Ramsey"Time and the Physical Universe"19thMarch 10, 1992 Abraham Pais"American Science & World War II"20thMarch 30, 1993 Steven M. Girvin"The Quantum Hall Effect: Universal Physics from Dirty Devices."21stMay 11, 1995 Philippe Nozières"Is Many Body Physics a Settled Issue?"22ndApril 19, 1996 Daniel Kleppner"Views from a Garden of Worldly Delights"23rdDecember 9, 1997 Jocelyn Bell Burnell“In Pursuit of Pulsars – 30 Years On!”24thMay 5, 1999 Sir Martin Rees“Understanding the Beginning and the End: Our Universe and Others”25thMarch 2, 2000 Charles H. Townes“The Sociology of Science Illustrated by the Laser”26thApril 16, 2001 Gerard ‘t Hooft“Quantum Field Theory, the Gravitational Force, and the Future of Quantum Mechanics”27thMarch 14, 2002 Dava Sobel“Galileo: Working Scientist”28thApril 22, 2003 Lawrence Krauss“Einstein’s Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story”29thApril 26, 2004 Herman Wouk“A Hole in Texas” A Novel view of the Supercollider30thApril 29, 2005 David J. Gross“The Future of Physics”31stMarch 30, 2006 Steven Chu“The energy problem: Our current choices and future hopes”32ndApril 12, 2007 N. David Mermin“Spooky Actions at a Distance?”33rdMarch 27, 2008 Arthur B. McDonald“A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2km Underground”34thApril 7, 2009 Larry Abbott“Sense from Chaos: Phase Transitions in Neural Activity”35thApril 8, 2010 Sir John Pendry“A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter does Electromagnetism.”36thFebruary 2, 2011 Sir Michael Berry“Making Light of Mathematics”37thFebruary 9, 2012 Leo Kadanoff“Making a Splash, Breaking a Neck”38thApril 25, 2013 Joe Incandela“The Search for the Higgs Boson:Discovery at the LHC”39thApril 3, 2014 Prof. Samuel Ting“The Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station”40thApril 30, 2015 Deborah Jin, JILA, University of Colorado"Fun with Ultracold Atoms"41stApril 7, 2016 Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara"Strange Views of Space and Time: From Einstein to String Theory"42ndMay 4, 2017 Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania"Topological Phases of Matter: Matter Can Arrange Itself in the Most Ingenious Ways" (Video)43rdApril 12, 2018 Kip Thorne"Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Colliding Stars"44thApril 22, 2019 Elena Aprile"The Xenon Project: At the Forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection"45thApril 21, 2022 Steven M. Girvin"Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution"46thApril 20, 2023 Sylvester James Gates"SUSY: Fifty Years of Scientific Odyssey Inspiring a Personal Quest"47thApril 18, 2024 Joel E Moore"The Many Uses of Emergent Perfection in Large Quantum Systems"
