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Harvard University Department of Physics

Harvard University Department of Physics

The Loeb and Lee Lectureship Funds:
1953-1990

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Year Loeb and Lee Lecturers Lecture/Course Titles
1989-90 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Jean Zinn-Justin 		 
1989-90 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. Robert R. Wilson, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Cornell University		 Lecture: "The Adventure of Starting Fermilab"
1989-90 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University 		Colloquium: "Strings, Superconductors and Mathematics"
Lectures I-IV: "Quantum Geometry in Two Dimensions"
1989-90 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Alexander Zamolodchikov,
L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics		 Colloquium: "Quantum Field Theory in Two Dimensions and Critical Phenomena"
Lectures I-IV: "Integrable Field Theory and Conformal Field Theory"
1989-90 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Karl Berkelman,
Cornell University		 Colloquium: "The Beautiful Quark"
Lecture I: "Recent Results from CESR
Lecture II: "The CKM Matrix"
Lecture III: "CP Violation in B Decay"
Lecture IV: "Prospects for a B Factory"
1989-90 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Herbert Walther,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics		 Colloquium: "Single Atom Experiments and the Test of Quantum Physics"
Lecture I: "The One-Atom Maser"
Lecture II: "Order and Chaos of Trapped Ions
Lecture III: "Rydberg Atoms in Strong External Fields"
Lecture IV: "Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy with Fast Signal Detection"
1989-90 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin
 Colloquium: "The Boson and the Behemoth"
Lecture I: "New Uses for Old Sum Rules-I"
Lecture II: "New Uses for Old Sum Rules-II"
Lecture III: "Scalar Exchange and CP Nonconservation"
1988-89 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus 		Lecture: "Beams of Atoms and Molecules"
1988-89 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Yuri Kagan,
Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, USSR 		Colloquium: "Quantum Tunneling Diffusion in Solids"
Lecture I: "Quantum Tunneling in a Metal: The Heavy-Electron Problem"
Lecture II: "Acoustic Properties of Metallic Glasses in the Normal and Superconducting State"
Lecture III: "The Role of Quantum Correlations in Kinetic Phenomena in a Bose Gas: Atomic Hydrogen"
Lecture IV: "The Problem of Bose-Condensation-Attainment in Atomic Hydrogen"
1988-89 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Konrad Kleinknecht, University of Mainz		 Colloquium: "Violation of Time Reversal Invariance in Decays of Neutral K Mesons"
Lecture I: "Quark Mixing in Weak Interactions"-
Lecture II: "First Observation of Direct CP Violation"
1988-89 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University		 Colloquium: "High Temperature Superconductivity: The Questions, Some Answers"
Lecture I: "Physics Properties of the Oxide Superconductors"
Lecture II: "Technological Prospects of High Temperature Superconductivity"
1988-89 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Lev Okun,
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow		 Colloquium: "The Concept of Mass"
Lecture I: "From Pions to Wions"
Lecture II: "Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrinos"
1988-89 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Michael Berry,
University of Bristol		 Colloquium: "Nature's Optical Catastrophes"
Lecture I: "Quantum Phase Memory"
Lecture II: "Quantum Chaology"
Lecture III: "Universal Asymptotic Smoothing of Stokes' Discontinuity"
Lecture IV: "Renormalization of Curlicues"
1987-88 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Chu,
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University 		Colloquium: "Topics in Laser Spectroscopy at the Lunatic Fringe."
Lecture I: "Atom Trapping for Beginners"
Lecture II: "More Atom Trapping, Cooling, and Future Applications"
Lecture III: "Laser Spectroscopy of Positronium and Muonium"
Lecture IV: "Lasers in Parity Nonconservation and Time Reversal Invariance"
1987-88 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Leo Kadanoff,
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago 		Colloquium: "Measuring Fractals: Holding a Ruler to the Infinitesimal"
Lecture I: "Spatial Order and Spatial Chaos: Wet Water and Drunken Walks"
Lecture II: "Simple Models, Complex Results: From Cellular Automata to Hydrodynamics"
Lecture III: "Convective Turbulence: An Experiment and a Little Theory"
Lecture IV: "Snatching Chaos from Order: Complex Results from Simple Systems" (special lecture for science undergraduates)
1987-88 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Andre D. Linde,
P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR 		Colloquium: "Basic Principles of Inflationary Cosmology"
Special Lecture: "Philosophical Implications of New Cosmology"
Lecture I: "New Inflation versus Chaotic Inflation: The Problem of Initial Conditions in Classical and Quantum Cosmology"
Lecture II: "Formation of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe"
Lecture III: "Eternal Chaotic Inflation"
Lecture IV: "Mutating Universe, Doubled Universe and Other New Concepts in Cosmology"
1987-88 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. Emilio Segré,
Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley		 Colloquium: "From the Discovery of the Neutron to Nuclear Energy (1932-1945)"
1987-88 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Scott Tremaine,
Director, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto 		Colloquium: "The Mass of Our Galaxy"
Lecture I: "Are Galaxies Maximum Entropy States?"
Lecture II: "The Statistical Mechanics of Comet Orbits"
Lecture III: "Dark Matter in the Solar System"
1987-88 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin		 Colloquium: "The Cosmological Constant Problem"
Lecture I: "Anthropic Constraints on the Cosmological Constant"
Lecture II: "Cancellation Mechanisms for the Cosmological Constant"
Lecture III: "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"
1986-87 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. J. Curry Street, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus		 Lecture: "Work at Harvard Leading to the Discovery of the Muon"
1986-87 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Edward Witten, Professor of Physics, Princeton University 		Colloquium: "Fields and String."
Lectures I-IV: "Horizons in String Theory"
1986-87 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Robert Birgeneau,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, M.I.T 		Colloquium: "Synchrotron Radiation and Condensed Matter: Why the Excitement?"
Lecture I: "Liquids, Crystals, and Liquid Crystals"
Lecture II: "Serpentine Solitons in Sanitized Soot"
1986-87 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Pierre Darriulat,
CERN 		Colloquium: "A Future for Experimental Particle Physics?"
Lectures: "Physics at the CERN pp Collider":
Lecture I: "Soft Collective Interactions"
Lecture II: "Strong Interactions with Partons"
Lecture III: "Electroweak Interactions between Partons"
1986-87 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Daniel Kleppner,
Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, M. I. T.		 Colloquium: "Physics with Giant Atoms"
Lecture I: "Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics: New Wine in Old Bottles"
Lecture II:"Eigenstates of Chaos"
1985-86 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf, Institute Professor Emeritus, M. I. T. 		Colloquium: "Niels Bohr: The Quantum and the World"
Lectures Specially Directed to Graduate Students and Undergraduates: Lecture I: "The Vacuum in Quantum Field Theory: From Ether to the Higgs Field"
Lecture II: "Some Deliberations in Qualitative Physics: Simple Explanations of Well-known Phenomena"
1985-86 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Giorgio Parisi,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare		 Colloquium: "Why Spin Glasses are Interesting"
Lecture I: "The Conventional Approach to Spin Glasses and Its Failure"
Lecture II: "The New Approach to Spin Glasses"
Lecture III: "Replica Symmetry and Its Breaking in Spin Glasses"
Lecture IV: "Optimization Problems"
1985-86 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Gerard Toulouse, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles 		Colloquium: "Ultrametricity in Physics and Biology"
Lecture I: "Some Topological Concepts in Condensed Matter Physics"
Lecture II: "Spin Glasses"
Lecture III: "Statistical Physics and Complex Optimization Problems"
Lecture IV: "Neural Networks and Learning by Selection"
1985-86 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. Edward Purcell,
Gerhard Gade University Professor, Emeritus 		Lecture: "Radar and Physics"
1985-86 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin
 Colloquium: "Why Strings?"
Lectures I-III: "Strings and Superstrings"
1984-85 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Krzysztof Gawedzki
 
1984-85 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Antti Kupiainen 		 
1984-85

Prof. Maury Tigner, Director, SSC Central Design Group.

Dr. Peter J. Limon, Accelerator Systems SSC Central Design Group.

Mr. Paul Reardon, Associate Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Mr. Paul Reardon, Associate Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Professor Russell Huson, Texas A & M University.

Dr. L. Lederman, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Cente

Colloquium: "The Superconducting Super Collider-A Symposium" M. Tigner, "The SSC-An Overview"
P. Limon, "Experience with Superconducting Accelerators"
P. Reardon, "Superconducting Magnet Development"
R. Huson, "Civil Engineering Challenges at the SSC"
L. Lederman, "2500 Years of Particle Physics-A Research Lecture for Non-Specialists"
1983-84 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Joseph H. Taylor, Princeton University		 "Pulsars: Nature's Most Precise Clocks"
Colloquium: "Experimental Relativity: Timing the Binary Pulsar"
Lecture I: "Clock Stability, the Early Universe and Millisecond Pulsars"
Lecture II: "The Origin and Evolution of Pulsars"
1983-84 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Anthony J. Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 		Colloquium: "Quantum Mechanics and 'Common Sense'"
Lecture I: "The Quantum Measurement Paradox: Non-Problem or Fatal Flaw?"
Lecture II: "Of Dissipation and Watched Pots: The Quantum Mechanics of a Macroscopic Variable"
Lecture III: "Cats, SQUIDS and the Measurement Paradox: Condensed State Physics and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics"
1983-84 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. A. Abragam,
Professor, Collège de France, CEN-Saclay 		Colloquium: "Nuclear Magnetic Order"
Lecture I: "Nuclear Antiferromagnetism"
Lecture II: "Nuclear Ferromagnetism"
Lecture III: "Nuclear Pseudomagnetism"
1983-84 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin		 Colloquium: "Physics in Higher Dimensions"
Lecture I: "Varieties of Geometry"
Lecture II: "Observable Traces of Extra Dimensions"
Lecture III: "How the Extra Dimensions Were Hidden"
1983-84 Historical Lecturer:
Prof. Kenneth Bainbridge, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, Emeritus 		Lecture: "Isotopes, Nuclei and the Cavendish Laboratory-Reminiscences"
1982-83 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. W. K. H. Panofsky, Stanford University		 Colloquium: "Colliding Particle Beams: The Present and the Future"
Lecture I: "Conversion of Fissionable Materials from War to Peace"-- Lecture II: "High Energy Physics at the Stanford Linear Electron Accelerator Center"
Lecture III: "On-Site Inspection of Nuclear Armaments: Cliché or Reality?"
1982-83 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Hans A. Bethe,
John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Cornell University 		Colloquium: "Supernovae"
Lecture I: "Reversing the Nuclear Arms Race"
Lecture II: "Supernovae II-Specialized"
Lectures III & IV. "World Energy Problems I & II"
1982-83 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Gerard 't Hooft,
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands		 A Series of Five Lectures on Strongly Interacting Gauge Fields.
Colloquium: " "Is Quantum Field Theory a Theory?"
Lecture I: "Confinement-Part I"
Lecture II: "Confinement-Part II"
Lecture III: "N yields inf Limit-Part I"
Lectures IV: "N yields inf Limit-Part II"
1982-83 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Abraham Pais,
Rockefeller University		 Lecture: "The Origins of the Einstein Legend"
1981-82 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. S. Van Der Meer,
CERN		 Colloquium: "Stochastic Cooling of Particle Beams, or Treating Particles as Individuals"
Discussion Session: "Stochastic Cooling of Particle Beams, or Treating Particles as Individuals"
1981-82 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Harry L.Swinney,
University of Texas, Austin 		A Series of Four Lectures on Experiments in Nonlinear Dynamics
Colloquium
 Lecture I: " Transition to Turbulence in Circular Couette Flow"
Lecture II: "Complex Dynamics in Flow Between Concentric Rotating Cylinders"
Lecture III: "Chemical Oscillations and Chaos
Lecture IV: "Poincaré Maps and Strange Attractors"
1981-82 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Stephen W. Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge 		A Series of Three Lectures on Gravitational Collapse.
Lecture I: "The Edge of Spacetime"
Lecture II: "Black Holes and Thermodynamcis"
Lecture III: "Quantum Gravity"
1981-82 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Frank A. Wilczek,
University of California at Santa Barbara 		Colloquium: "Quantized and Fractional Charges"
Lecture I: "Fractional Charge by Vacuum Polarization"
Lecture II: "Flux Tubes, Dyons and Statistics"
Lecture III: "Fermionic Structure of Monopoles"
1981-82 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Edwin M. McMillan,
Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley		 Lecture: "History of the Synchrotron"
1980-81 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. B. Bleaney, C.B.E., F.R.S.
Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University		 Colloquium: "Enhanced Nuclear Magnetism in HoVO 4 "
1980-81 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Felix Bloch,
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University 		Lecture: "Reminiscences of the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics"
1980-81 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Mary K. Gaillard, Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique des Particles, C.N.R.S. 		Colloquium: "Toward a Unified Description of Elementary Particle Interactions"
Lecture I: "Synthesis of Interactions in High Energy Physics"
Lecture II: "Unification of Particle Interactions and the Stability of Matter"
Lecture III: "Interfaces of Particles Physics and Cosmology"
Lecture IV: "A Possible Avenue Towards Unification with Gravity."
1980-81 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Jürg Fröhlich,
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques 		Colloquium: "Non-Perturbative Methods in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory"
Lecture I: "The Kosterlitz-Thouless and Roughening Transitions: Rigorous Results"
Lecture II: "Polymers, Anderson Localization and plus/minus g bar phi super arrow bar ^4 Theories"
Lecture III: "Phase Diagrams and Critical Properties of Lattice Gauge Theories"
Lecture IV: " What I Would Have Liked to Talk About and Didn't Dare to"
1980-81 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Jack Steinberger,
CERN 		Colloquium: "Neutrinos and Nucleon Structure"
Lectures: A Series of Four Lectures on Experiments with High Energy Neutrinos
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Guenter Ahlers,
Bell Laboratories 		Colloquium: "Evolution of Turbulence in Fluid Flow"
Lecture I: "The Rayleigh-Bernard Instability"
Lecture II: "Turbulence in a Fluid Heated from Below"
Lecture III: "Experimental Investigations of Continuous Phase Transitions: A. Statics"
Lecture IV: "Experimental Investigations of Continuous Phase Transitions: B. Dynamics"
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Serge Haroche,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 		Lecture: "What To Do with Rydberg Atoms?"
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. N. David Mermin, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University 		The Uses of Topology in Condensed Matter Physics
Colloquium: "Klein Bottles at One's Fingertips: Exotic Spaces in Ordinary Places"
Lecture I: "Symmetry and Defects
Lecture II: "Boojuns and Other Singular Vanishings"
Some Quantum Curiosities:
Lecture III: "Macroscopic Orbital Angular Momentum in the Ground State"
Lecture IV: "Is the Moon There When Nobody Looks? Bell's Theorem Near the Classical Limit"
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Emilio Picasso,
CERN 		Colloquium: "Muon (g-2) Experiments at CERN"
Lecture I: "The Third Experiment of the (g-2) of the Muon"
Lecture II: "The Electric Dipole Moment of the Muon"
Lecture III: "A Direct Test of Relativistic Time Dilation"
Lecture IV: "A Possible Electromagnetic Detector for Gravitational Waves"
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Martin J. Rees, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University, Director, Institute of Astronomy		 Colloquium: "Relativistic Beams in Quasars and Radio Galaxies"
Lectures: A Series of Four Lectures on "Galaxies, Quasars, and Cosmic Evolution"
1979-80 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf, Institute Professor Emeritus,
M. I. T. 		Lecture: "Growing Up With Field Theory"
1978-79 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Edoardo Amaldi,
Professor of Physics, University of Rome 		Lecture: "Recollections of the Fermi Group in the 1930's"
1978-79 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Professor of Physics, Princeton University 		A Series of Four Lectures on The Uses of Instantons in the Physics of Hadrons
Colloquium:" Hadrons From Quarks-A Simplified Picture"
Lectures: "Non-Perturbative Phenomena in QCD: New Light on Strong Interaction Problems" (three lectures)
1978-79 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Hendrik B. G. Casimir, President Emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and Director Emeritus, Philips Research Laboratories		 Lecture I: "The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory: The Low Temperature Tradition at Leiden" Lecture II: "History of Superconductivity and Superfluidity"
Lecture III: "Theoretical Physics in the Netherlands: Lorentz, Ehrenfest and Their Successors"
Lecture IV: "The Reality of Atoms: A Lecture on the Occasion of the Centenary of Einstein, Hahn, Meitner and von Laue"
Lecture V: "The Philips Research Laboratories: Industrial Organization and Academic Freedom"
Lecture VI: Copenhagen and Zürich: Personal Reminiscences of Bohr and Pauli"
1978-79 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Ronald W. P. Drever, Professor in Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University 		Colloquium: "Gravity Wave Astronomy-A Challenge to Experimental Physics" Lectures: A Series of Three Lectures on "Some Current Problems in Experimental Physics"
Lecture I: "Practical Problems in Experimental Gravitation"
Lecture II: "Experiments on Gravitational Radiation in Space and on the Ground"
Lecture III: "Other Aspects of Experiments of High Sensitivity"
1978-79 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Michael E. Fisher,
Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics, Cornell University 		Series of Five Lectures on Critical Phenomena, Renormalization Groups, and All That.
Colloquium:
Lecture I: Critical Points, their Exponents and Scaling"
Lecture II: Renormalization Groups-Concepts, Successes and Problems"
Lecture III: "Bicriticality, Tricriticality, and Some Nonuniversality"
Lecture IV: "The Intelligent Analysis of Power Series-Especially in Two Variables"
Lecture V: "The Complex Plane: The Yang-Lee Edge Singularity and phi^3 Field Theory"
1977-78 Long-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Cyrano De Dominicis,
CEN-Saclay 		"Special Topics in Theoretical Physics" offered as Physics 271 in the Fall Term
1977-78 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Michael F. Atiyah,
F.R.S. Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Oxford		 Colloquium: "Geometry and Physics"
Lecture I: "The Penrose Theory of Twistors"- Lecture II: "Geometry of Yang-Mills Fields"
Lecture III: "Construction of Instantons"
Lecture IV: "Topology of Gauge Theories"
1977-78 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Freeman J. Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study 		Colloquium: "The End of the Universe"
Lecture I: "Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere"
Lecture II: "Mathematical Models of Early Evolution"
Lecture III: "Mathematical Theory of Phase-Transitions in Ferromagnets"
1977-78 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Sir Rudolph Peierls, Wykeham Professor and Fellow of New College, Emeritus, Oxford University 		Lecture: "Recollections of the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics"
1977-78 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Ya. Sinai,
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics.		 Colloquium: Stochasticity of Dynamical Systems"
Lectures: A series of four lectures on "Mathematical Approach to the Renormalization Group Method in the Theory of Phase Transitions"
1976-77 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Gerson Goldhaber, University of California, Berkeley		 Colloquium: "From the Psi/J to Charmed Particles: Two Years of e + e - Colliding Beam Physics at SPEAR"
Lecture I: "Psion Spectroscopy"
Lecture II: "Properties of Psions and the Observation of Charmed Mesons"
Lecture III. "Properties of Charmed Mesons"
1976-77 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Oscar E. Lanford, III, University of California, Berkeley 		A Series of Lectures on The Ruelle-Takens Approach to Turbulence
Colloquium: "Equilibrium Ensembles for Models of Turbulence"
Lecture I: "Geometry of the Lorenz Mode"
Lecture II: "Statistical Theory of the Lorenz Model: Reduction to a One-Dimensional Transformation"
Lecture III: "Statistical Theory of One-Dimensional Transformations: Connection with Classical Statistical Mechanics"
Lecture IV: "Numerical Results on Higher Dimensional Models"
1976-77 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Eugene P. Wigner, Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, Nobel Laureate in Physics		 Lecture: "Fifty Years of Symmetry Operations"
1976-77 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Leonard Susskind, Professor of Physics, Yeshiva University		 Colloquium: "Hadrons as Strings"
Lectures: "Coarse-Grained Quantum Field Theory" (a series of five lectures)
1976-77 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Hans G. Dehmelt, Professor of Physics, University of Washington		 Colloquium: "Measurement of Axial, Magnetron, Cyclotron and Spin-Cyclotron-Beat Frequencies on Isolated Electron (Geonium)"
Lecture I: "Monoelectron Oscillator"
Lecture II: "Entropy Reduction by Motional Sideband Excitation"
1975-76 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Stanley Deser,
Brandeis University 		"Special Topics in Relativity" offered as Physics 212 in the Fall Term
1975-76 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Gerard 't Hooft,
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht 		"Special Topics in Theoretical Physics" offered as Physics 272 in the Spring Term
1975-76 Short-Term Lecturer:
Professor C. Cohen-Tannoudji,
Collège de France 		Colloquium: "Quantum Interference Effects in Atomic Physics"
Lecture I: "Resonant and Non-Resonant Interactions between Atoms and Photons"
Lecture II: "Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic and Molecular Excited States"
Lecture III: "Resonance Fluorescence in Intense Laser Beams"
Lecture IV: "Light-Shifts and Modification of Atomic g-Factors Produced by a Non-Resonant Irradiation"
1975-76 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. I. I. Rabi,
University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Physics 		Lecture: "Experimental Physics in America: A Personal View of its Growth and Influence"
1975-76 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. J. Schwinger,
Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics 		Two lectures on Deep Inelastic Scattering of Leptons
1975-76 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Phillipe Nozières,
Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble 		Colloquium: "I. Electron-Hole Droplets in Semiconductors"
Lecture II: "A Poor Man's View of Renormalization Methods"
Lecture III: "Simple Stochastic Theory of Chemical Reaction Rates"
Lectures IV-V: "Renormalization and the Kondo Effect"
1974-75 Long-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Edouard Brézin,
Service de Physique Théorique, CEN, Saclay
 "The Renormalization Group" offered as Physics 271 in the Fall Term
1974-75 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Martin J. Klein,
Eugene Higgins Professor of History of Physics, Yale University		 Colloquium: "Einstein and the Mechanical World View"
Lectures: "The Scientific Work of J. Willard Gibbs (a series of three lectures)
1974-75 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Burton Richter,
Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 		Colloquium: "Hadron-Production in Electron-Positron Collisions"
Lectures: "Physics with Electron-Positron Colliding Beams":
Lecture I: "The Machines"
Lecture II: "Lepton Final States"
Lecture III: "Hadron Final States, I"
Lecture IV: "Hadron Final States, II"
1974-75 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Samuel A. Goudsmit 		Lecture I: "Why Germany Did Not Get the Atomic Bomb"
Lecture II: "How Electron Spin Was Discovered"
1974-75 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Irwin I. Shapiro,
M. I. T. 		Colloquium: "The Universe: An Open or Closed Case?"
Lectures: "New Tests of General Relativity":
Lecture I: "The Principle of Equivalence for Massive Bodies or How the Mighty Fall"
Lecture II: "Is Gravity Becoming Less Attrractive?"
Lecture III: "Observations of Bare Photons Streaking by the Sun"
Lecture IV: "Relativity and the Surface of the Sun: New Wrinkles on an Old Skin"
1974-75 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Ludwig D. Faddeev,
Steklov Mathematical Institute 		"Localized Solutions of Classical Field Equations and Their Quantum Interpretation"
Colloquium
Lecture I: "General Survey"
Lecture II: "Models and Methods"
Lecture III: "Towards a Realistic Theory"
1973-74 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Alan Heeger,
Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania 		Colloquium: "One-Dimensional Physics in Real Solids"
Lecture I: "The Design and Synthesis of Organic Metals"
Lecture II: "The Metal-Insulator Transition in an Organic Solid"
Lecture III: "What is Going on in (TTF)(TCNQ)?"
1973-74 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Edwin Land 		Colloquium: "Retinex Theory of Color Vision"
1973-74 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Chien-Shiung Wu,
Pupin Professor of Physics, Columbia University 		Colloquium: "Exotic Atoms"
Lecture I: "Mössbauer Studies of Deoxy Hemoglobin"
Lecture II: "Weak Interactions in Nuclear Physics, I"
Lecture III: "Weak Interactions in Nuclear Physics, II"
1973-74 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Julian Schwinger,
Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics		 Lecture I: "Elecrodynamic Renormalization Group-Without Renormalization"
Lecture II: "What's Anomalous about the Triangle Anomaly?"
1973-74 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Paul A. M. Dirac, Professor of Physics, Florida State University		 Colloquium: "The Road That Led to Antimatter"
1972-73 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Francis Low,
Professor of Physics, M. I. T.		 "Regge Theory of Multiparticle Processes" offered as Physics 272 in the Spring Term
1972-73 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Werner K. Heisenberg,
Director, Emeritus, Max-Planck-Institut		 Colloquium: "The Development of Concepts in the History of Quantum Theory"
1972-73 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Julian Schwinger,
Professor of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 		Lecture I: "Weak Interactions senza Cabibbo"
Lecture II: "Electron Propagation in Strong Magnetic Fields"
1972-73 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Kenneth G. Wilson, Professor of Physics, Cornell University 		A Series of Five Lectures on Phase Space Cell Analysis
Colloquium: "Critical Phenomena in 399 Dimensions"
Lecture II: "Critical Phenomena, II"
Lecture III: "Critical Phenomena, III"
Lecture IV: "Momentum Slices-I: The Kondo Problem"
Lectures V: "Momentum Slices-II: Model of a Pomeron"
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Robert H. Dicke,
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Princeton University 		Colloquium: "The Oblateness of the Sun"
Lecture I: "Some Strange Features of Our Universe"
Lecture II: "Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravity"
Lecture III:"Tests of General Relativity"
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Klaus Hepp,
Eidg. Technische Hochschule, Zürich		 Colloquium: "Towards an Understanding of Quantum Systems with Infinitely Many Degrees of Freedom"
Lecture I: "Asymptotically Exact Solution of a Quantum Maser Model"
Lecture II: "Scattering Theory in the Heisenberg Ferromagnet"
Lecture III: "Quantum Theory of Measurement with Macroscopic Observables"
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Vernon Hughes,
Donner Professor of Physics, Yale University 		Colloquium: "Polarized Electrons: How and Why?"
Lecture I: "Search for Strangeness One Baryon States"
Lecture II: "The Fine Structure Constant Alpha"
Lecture III: "Meson Factories and Muon Physics"
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Maurice Jacob,
Senior Scientist, CERN 		Colloquium: "Particle Production at High Energy"
Lectures: "Phenomenology of Scattering and Production Processes at High Energy" (a series of three lectures)
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. John A. Wheeler,
Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Princeton University 		Colloquium: "Superspace"
Lecture I: "Down the Black Hole"
Lecture II: "Sight and Sound of a Black Hole"
Lecture III: "Beyond the End of Time"
1971-72 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. C. N. Yang,
Albert Einstein Professor and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, State University of New York
at Stony Brook		 Colloquium: High Energy Collisions"
Lecture I: "New Formulation of Gauge Fields"
Lecture II: "Impressions of the Peoples Republic of China"
Lecture III: "Fluctuation and Correlation in High Energy Collisions"
1970-71 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Anatole Abragam, Professor, Collège de France and Directeur de la Physique Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique 		Colloquium: "Dynamic Polarization of Atomic Nuclei and its Applications"
Lecture I: "The Concept of Spin Temperature, Experimental Justifications and Applications"
Lectures II and III: "Nuclear Antiferromagnetism: Prediction, Production, Observation"
1970-71 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. P. G. de Gennes, Professor of Physics,
Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris		 Colloquium: "Conjectures on Chirality, Broken Symmetry, and the Origin of Life"
Lecture I: "Dynamics of Polymer Melts: The 'Reptation' Mode"
Lecture II: "Electrodynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystals"
Lecture III: "Order and Fluctuations in Liquid Crystals"
1970-71 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Sidney D. Drell,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 		Colloquium: ""Partons"
Lectures: "Developing the Theory and Applications of Partons to High Energy Processes (a series of three lectures)
1970-71 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Wolfgang Paul,
Director, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron		 Colloquium: "The Electron (The Development of Our Knowledge)"
Lecture I: "Experiments on the Bonn 2.5 GeV Synchrotron"
Lecture II: "Intermolecular Forces and Reactions in Atomic Collision Experiments"
Lecture II: . "Electromagnetic Confinement of Neutrons"
1969-70 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. F. D. Drake,
Associate Director, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University 		Colloquium: "Concepts in the Problem of Detecting Distant Civilizations"
Lecture I: "The Nature of Pulsars"
Lecture II: "The Physics of Pulsar Electromagnetic Radiation"
Lecture III: "Association of Pulsars with Cosmic Rays and Other Galactic Phenomena"
1969-70 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Haim Harari,
The Weizmann Institute
of Science		 Colloquium: "Strong Interaction Dynamics and the Structure of Hadrons"
Lecture I: "On the Phenomenology of Hadronic Collisions"
Lecture II: "Duality and Hadron Dynamics"
Lecture III: "Inelastic Electron-Hadron Scattering-A Probe of the Hadron Structure"
1969-70 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Robert Hofstadter, Director, High Energy Physics Laboratory and Professor of Physics, Stanford University 		Colloquium: "Discoveries and Consequences-A Personal Experience"
Lecture I: "Electron Scattering Studies of Selected Nuclei"
Lecture II: "Total Absorption Detectors for High Energy Physics"
Lecture III: "The Program of the Stanford High Energy Physics Laboratory"
1969-70 Short-Term Lecturer:
Academician Peter L. Kapitza,
Director, Institute for Physical Problems, Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. 		Colloquium: "The Education of Scientists in the U.S.S.R."
1969-70 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Bruno F. Touschek,
Professor, University of Rome and Director of the Theoretical Physics Division, Frascati		 "Electron-Positron Colliding Beams" (series of four lectures)
1968-69 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Murray Gell-Mann,
California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "The Spectrum of Baryons and Mesons"
Lectures: "The Bootstrap and the Quark Model" (series of three lectures)
1968-69 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. J. C. Wheatley,
University of California,
San Diego 		Colloquium: "Phenomena at Very Low Temperatures"
Lecture I: "Experimental Properties of Fermi Fluids"
Lecture II: "Scientific and Technical Aspects of Dilution Refrigeration"
Lecture III: "Properties of Solid He 3 Cooled by Isentropic Compression"
Lecture IV: "Topics of Current Interest"
1968-69 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. L. Van Hove,
Senior Physicist, CERN and Extraordinary Professor, University of Utrecht		 Colloquium: ""Remarks on the Analytical Continuation Problem for Experimentally Determined Functions"
Lectures: "The Theoretical Aspects of High Energy Hadron Collisions"
Lecture I: "The Consequences of Analyticity"
Lecture II: "Reggeized Particle Exchange"
Lectures III and IV: "Toward a Systematic Analysis of Three and More Particle Final States"
1967-68 Long-Term Lecturer:
Dr. P. G. H. Sandars,
Oxford University 		Colloquium: "Magnetic Charge"
Lectures I and II:"Time Reversal Invariance and the Search for Electric Dipole Moments"
1967-68 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. M. Stanley Livingston, Associate Director, National Accelerator Laboratory 		Colloquium: "The 200/400 Billion Volt Accelerator at Westin, Illinois"
Lectures: "The History and Development of Particle Accelerators"
Lecture I: "The Race for High Voltage"
Lecture II: "Ernest Lawrence and the Cyclotron""
Lecture III: "Synchronous Accelerators and How They Grew""
Lecture IV: "The Story of Alternating Gradient Focusing"
1967-68 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Roger J. Elliott,
Oxford University		 Colloquium: "Effects of Symmetry in Magnetic Crystals"
Lectures: "Excitations in Crystals Containing Defects" (series of four lectures)
1966-67 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Nicola Cabibbo
 
1966-67 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Steven Weinberg,
Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley 		Lectures: "The Current Algebra Approach to Elementary Particle Dynamics" (series of four lectures)
1966-67 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Sergio P. Fubini,
Professor of Physics, University of Turin		 Colloquium: "Recent Developments in the Theory of Strong Interactions"
Lectures: "Dispersion Sum Rules in Elementary Particle Physics" (series of four lectures)
1966-67 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. James W. Cronin,
Professor of Physics, Princeton University 		Colloquium: "Recent Studies of CP-Violation with Neutral K-Mesons"
Lectures: "Neutral K-Mesons" (series of four lectures)
1965-66 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Valentine Telegdi, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago 		"Topics and Methods in Particle Physics" offered as Physics 288 in the Spring Term
1965-66 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Bruno Zumino,
Professor of Physics,
New York University 		"Topics in Nuclear Physics" offered as Physics 255 in the Spring Term
1964-65 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. J. Robert Schrieffer,
Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania 		Lectures I: "Quasi-Particles and Superconductivity"
Lecture II: "Can Superconductivity be Beautiful without Quasi-Particles?"
Lecture III: "Coulomb Forces and Magnetism in Metals"
Lecture IV: "Coulomb Forces and Magnetism (continued)"
1964-65 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Artem I. Alikhanyan,
Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences, Armenian S.S.R. 		"Wide-gap Spark Chambers and Some Aspects of the Passage of Fast Particles Through Matter" (series of four lectures)
1963-64 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. T. D. Lee,
Professor of Physics, Columbia University		 Colloquium: "Degenerate Systems and Mass Singularities"
Lectures: "Weak Interactions" (series of four lectures)
1963-64 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. James D. Bjorken,
Stanford University 		Lectures: "Renormalization of Quantum Electrodynamics" (series of four lectures)
1963-64 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Phillip W. Anderson,
Bell Telephone Laboratories		 Colloquium: "Localized Magnetic States"
Lectures: "The Theory of Superconductivity" (series of four lectures)
1962-63 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Sidney D. Drell,
Professor of Physics,
Stanford University 		"Special Topics in Theoretical Physics" offered as Physics 281 in the Fall Term
1962-63 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Stanley Mandelstam,
Department of Mathematical Physics, The University of Birmingham, England 		Colloquium: "Dispersion Relations in Strong Coupling Physics"
Lectures: "Regge Poles and the Strip Approximation" (series of four lectures)
1962-63 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Robert R. Wilson,
Professor of Physics,
Cornell University 		Colloquium: "Electron Accelerators at Cornell University"
Lectures: "Electron Scattering and the Structure of the Proton" (series of three lectures)
1960-61 Long-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Hartland Snyder 		 
1960-61 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Charles Slichter 		 
1959-60 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Owen Chamberlain,
Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley 		"Special Topics in High Energy Physics" offered in the Fall Term
1958-59 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Francis Low,
Professor of Physics, M. I. T., 		"Meson Theory" offered as Physics 281 in the Spring Term
1958-59 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Cornelius J. Gorter,
Professor of Physics, University of Leiden and Director of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory		 Colloquium: "Orienting Atomic Nuclei at Low Temperatures"
Lecture I: "Paramagnetic Relaxation"
Lecture II: "Antiferromagnetism According to the Molecular Field Model"
1957-58 Short-Term Lecturer:
Sir John Cockcroft,
Director of the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell)		 Colloquium: "The Course of Development of Nuclear Power"
1957-58 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Hans Bethe,
Professor of Physics,
Cornell University 		Colloquium: "Present Status of Nuclear Forces"
Lectures: "The Nuclear Many-Body Problem" (series of four lectures)
1957-58 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. William A. Fowler,
Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology 		Colloquium: "The Origin of the Elements"
Lecture I: "Experiments on Stellar Nuclear Reactions"
Lecture II: "The Nature of the Beta-Interaction in the Decay of Li^8 "
1957-58 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. C. N. Yang,
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study		 Colloquium: "Symmetry Laws in Physics"
Lecture I: "The Weak Interactions"
Lectures II and III: "Many Body Problem in Statistical Mechanics" (two lectures)
1956-57 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Donald J. Hughes,
Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory 		Colloquium: "Neutron Optics"
Lecture I: "Nuclear Energy Level Parameters"
Lecture II: "Neutron Cross Sections and Nuclear Models"
Lecture III: "Fission Physics"
Lecture IV: "Neutrons and Phonons"
1956-57 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. T. D. Lee,
Professor of Physics, Columbia University 		Colloquium: "Many Body Problems"
Lectures: "Conservation Laws in Weak Interactions" (series of four lectures)
1955-56 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Victor Weisskopf, Professor of Physics, M. I. T. 		"Theory of Nuclear Structure" offered as Physics 281 in the Spring Term
1955-56 Short-Term Lecturer:
Professor I. I. Rabi,
Higgins Professor of Physics, Columbia University, and Chairman, General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission		 Colloquium: "Science and the Humanities"- Prof. Rabi was introduced by Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey
Lectures: "Molecular Beam Experiments"
Lectures I and II: "Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei"- Lectures III and IV: "Atomic Beam Experiments with Optically Excited Atoms"
1954-55 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Robert B. Leighton,
Professor, California Institute of Technology 		Colloquium: "Particles"
Lecture I: "Experiments on V-Particles-Apparatus"
Lecture II:"Measurement Procedures"
Lecture III: "Results on Neutral V-Particles"
Lecture IV: "Results on Charged V-Particles"
1954-55 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Aage Bohr,
Member, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen 		Colloquium: "Nuclear Rotational States"
Lecture I: "The Unified Model of the Nucleus-Theory of Nuclear Collective Motion"
Lecture II: "Beta and Gamma Transitions in Strongly Deformed Nuclei"
Lecture III: "The Fine Structure of Alpha-Decay"
Lecture IV: "Excitation of Nuclear States by the Electric Field of Impinging Particles"
1954-55 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dr. Maurice Goldhaber,
Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory		 Colloquium: "The New Unstable Particles-Heavy Mesons and Hyperons"
Lecture I: "Hypernuclei"
Lecture II: "Nuclear Isomers: I. Production and Properties of Isomers"
Lecture III: "Classification of Isomers"
Lecture IV: "Some Outstanding Problems."
1953-54 Long-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Willis E. Lamb, Jr., Professor of Physics, Stanford University 		"Atomic Microwave Spectroscopy" offered as Physics 281 in Fall Term
1953-54 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Enrico Fermi,
Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago 		Colloquium: "Galactic Magnetic Fields and th Origin of Cosmic Radiation" Lecture I. "Scattering of Pions by Hydrogen"
Lecture II: "High Energy Nuclear Collisions"
1953-54 Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. Freeman J. Dyson,
Member, Institute for Advanced Study		 Colloquium: "Theory of Paramagnetic Resonance in Metals"
Lecture I: "The Problem of Two Bodies in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics"
Lecture II: "Elementary Theory of Meson-Proton Scattering"
Lecture III: "Plans for Making Better Approximations"
Lecture IV: "Requirements for an Adequate Test of the Meson Theory."

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