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H.L. Welsh Distinguished Lecturers in Physics, 1975-2013

Year

Speakers ( # indicates Nobel Laureate)

2013 Jean-Loup Puget (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatalie, Universite Paris Sud)
Robert Austin (Princeton University)
2012 Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
Roger Bilham (University of Colorado)
2011 Deborah Jin (JILA and University of Colorado)
2010 Lyman Page (Princeton University)
Maria Zuber (MIT)
2009
Lyn Evans (CERN)
John Preskill (Caltech)
2008 Paul Corkum (University of Ottawa and National Research Council)
Patrick A. Lee (MIT, Cambridge)
2007 Paul Chaikin (New York University)
Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley)
2006 Carlos Bustamante (University of California, Berkeley)
Brian Hoskins (University of Reading)
2005 H. Jeff Kimble (California Institute of Technology)
Lisa Randall (Harvard University)
2004 # Ted Hänsch ( Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik)
# Art McDonald, Director, SNO Institute (Queen's University)
2002 John Houghton (Hadley Centre, MET Office)
Richard Webb (University of Maryland)
2001 # David Gross (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California)
David Nelson (Harvard University)
2000 # Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
# Eric Cornell (JILA/University of Colorado)
1999 # Robert Laughlin (Stanford University)
Adam Dziewonski (Harvard University)
1998 John Hopfield (Princeton University)
Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)
1997 Jim Langer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
# Anton Zeilinger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
1996 Paul Steinhardt (Pennsylvania)
Per Bak (Copenhagen)
1995 Irwin Shapiro (Harvard)
# Steve Chu (Stanford)
1994 R. Birgeneau (M.I.T.)
A. Libchaber (Princeton)
1992-3 W.S. Broecker (Columbia)
# Duncan Haldane (Princeton)
1991 M. Berry (Bristol, U.K.)
A. Linde (Stanford)
1990 L.P. Kadanoff (Chicago)
B.J. Mason (Reading, U.K.)
1989 # K.A. Müller (IBM, Zurich)
S.E. Woosley (Santa Cruz)
1988 # L.M. Lederman (Fermilab)
A. Wiin-Nielsen (Copenhagen)
1987 N.D. Mermin (Cornell)
# J.C. Polanyi (Toronto)
1986 G. Wasserburg (Caltech)
1985 J. Ellis (CERN)
1984 # A.J. Leggett (Urbana)
R.E. Peierls (Oxford)
B.P. Stoicheff (Toronto)
1983 W. Greiner (Frankfurt)
D. Perkins (Oxford)
# J.R. Schrieffer (Santa Barbara)
1982 D.G. King-Hele (Imperial College, U.K.)
C. Sagan (Cornell)
R.R. Wilson (Fermilab)
1981 # C. Cohen-Tannoudji (ENS, Paris)
C.H. Costain (NRC, Ottawa)
H.E. Gove (Rochester)
D.C. Johanson (Berkeley)
# D.D. Osheroff (Bell Labs)
1980 T. Gold (Cornell)
R. Haering (Simon Fraser)
# W. Kohn (Santa Barbara)
S.L. Wu (Wisconsin)
1979 M.E. Fisher (Cornell)
C.H. Llewellyn Smith (Oxford)
# N.F. Ramsey (Harvard)
1978 W.M. Fairbank (Stanford)
# S.L. Glashow (Harvard)
D.W. Sciama (Oxford)
1977 # F. Bloch (Stanford)
# C.H. Townes (M.I.T.)
1976 # (R. Hofstadter Stanford)
# C.N. Yang (Stony Brook)
1975 # G. Herzberg (NRC, Ottawa)
J.A. Jacobs (Cambridge, UK)
J.L. Locke
# A. Salam (Trieste)
# A.L. Schawlow (Stanford)
M. Tinkham (Harvard)
D.H. Wilkinson (Sussex, UK)

In 1992, the lectures were switched from November to May of the following year.