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Max Goodrich Distinguished Lecture Series
Public Lecture

YEAR	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE	INSTITUTION	HONORS/ACHIEVEMENTS
2007	Prof. Moses Chan	"Einstein's Legacy in Low Temperature Physics: Superfluids and Supersolids"	Pennsylvania State University
2006	Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff	"How Advances in Science Are Made?"	Stanford University	1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics
1998	Prof. John Bahcall	"What Have We Learned About Solar Neutrinos?"	Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey	Member, National Academy of Science
1997	Edward C. Ston, Jr.	"Mars and the Search for Life Elsewhere"	Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology	Member, National Academy of Science
1996	Prof. Kip Thorne	"Space-Time Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future"	Feymann Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology	Member, National Academy of Science
1996	Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus	"What is so Exciting about Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes?"	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1990 National Metal of Science
1995	Prof. Marlan O. Scully	"The Weird and Wonderful World of the Microcosmos"	Texas A&M University and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik	Member, National Academy of Science & 1998 Charles H. Townes Award from the Optical Society of America
1994	Prof. Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.	"A Layman's Guide to Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity"	Princeton University	1993 Nobel Laureate in Physics & Member, National Academy of Science
1992	Prof. Philip Anderson	"Is the National Funding System for Science and Technology Rational -- Does it Work?"	Princeton University	1977 Nobel Laureate in Physics
1992	Prof. R. E. Smalley	"C60 (Buckey Balls) and the Emerging Carbon-Based Nano Technology"	Rice University	Member, National Academy of Science
1990	Prof. Arthur L. Schawlow	"Lasers and Their Uses"	Stanford University	1981 Nobel Laureate in Physics
1989	Prof. Maarten Schmidt	"Quasars as Beacons in the Universe"	California Institute of Technology	Member, National Academy of Science
1987	Prof. William A. Fowler	"The Quest for the Origin of the Elements"	California Institute of Technology	1983 Nobel Laureate in Physics
1986	Prof. Edward M. Purcell	"Life in a Magnetic Field"	Harvard University	1952 Nobel Laureate in Physics

 

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