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Alpheus Smith Lectures

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1960   W.V. Houston

1961   I.B. Cohen

1962   R.A. Sawyer

1963   J. H. Van Vleck*

1964   E.U. Condon

1966   G.E. Uhlenbeck

1967   F.B. Hunt

1968   P. Morrison

1969   S. Chandrasekhar*

1970   A. Salam*

1971   E. W. Montroll

1972   B. Ancker-Johnson

1973   G. Herzberg

1975   L.N. Cooper*

1976   P.H. Abelson

1977   V.F. Weisskopf

1978   B. Pippard

1979   M.J. Klein

1980   W.A. Fowler*

1981   S.L. Glashow*

1982   M.E. Fisher

1983   L.M. Lederman*

1984   L.P. Kadanoff

1985   S. Coleman

1986   M. Gell-Mann*

1987   A.L. Schawlow       

1989   F.J. Dyson

1990   C. Rubbia*

1991   J. Hopfield

1992   H.A. Bethe*

1993   H.W. Kendall*

1994   N.F. Ramsey*

1995   K. Thorne

1996   F.S. Rowland

1997   R.C. Richardson*

1998   W.D. Phillips*

1999   H.L. Stormer*

2000   G. ‘tHooft*

2001   A.J. Heeger*

2002   E. Cornell*

2003   R. Giacconi*

2004   T. Leggett*

2005   F. Wilczek*

2006   W. Ketterle*

2007   G. Smoot*

2008   A. Zewail*

2009   D. Gross*

2010   D. Kleppner

2011   L. Susskind

2012   A. Riess*

2013   D. Wineland*

2014  J.R. Incandela

2015 K. Thorne*

2017 A. McDonald*

2017 F. Duncan Haldane*

2019 S. Chu*

2020 J. Gates-Fall

2022 J. Frank*-Spring

2022 D. Strickland*-Fall

2024 Anne L'Huillier*- Fall

2025- Andrea Ghez*- Fall

* indicates Nobel Prize winner