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Hudspeth
Lectureship

Neuroscience

The Emmett L. Hudspeth
Centennial Lectureship in Physics

Previous Hudspeth Lecturers

H. Jeff Kimble (Spring 2011)
William L. Valentine Professor and Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Modern Quantum Optics: A Voyage into Hilbert Space Enabled by E. C. G. Sudarshan

James Cronin (Spring 2009)
Professor of Physics Emeritus, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago
Study of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Matthew Fisher (Spring 2008)
Professor of Physics, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (UC-Santa Barbara)
A Brief History of Particle Physics, Miletus to the Supercollider

Michael E. Fisher (Spring 2007)
Distinguished University Professor and Regents' Professor, University of Maryland
Molecular Motors: Observations and Theory

Denis Le Bihan (Fall 2006)
Director, Federative Research Institute of Functional Neuroimaging, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (Orsay, France)
From Physics to the Mind: An Imaging Quest

Richard L. Garwin (Spring 2004)
IBM Fellow Emeritus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Fun with Muons

Freeman J. Dyson (Spring 2003)
Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
Looking for Life in Unlikely Places: Reasons Why Planets May Not be the Best Places to Look for Life

Eric Cornell (Spring 2002)
Fellow, JILA and Professor Adjoint in Physics, The University of Colorado
Artifice and Equilibrium: Experiments with Synthetic and Natural Vortices in a Superfluid Gas

Yuval Ne'eman (Spring 2001)
Professor Emeritus of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin and Tel Aviv University
Why One Now Clearly Hears That "Music of the Spheres"

Leo P. Kadanoff (Spring 2000)
Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Models of Structure and Pattern Formation

John N. Bahcall (Spring 1998)
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
What Have We Learned About Solar Neutrinos?

Albert James Hudspeth (Spring 1997)
Director, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University
How Hearing Happens: Mechanoelectrical Transduction by Hair Cells of the Internal Ear

Sir Denys Wilkinson (Fall 1994)
Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Are There Any Quarks in the Atomic Nucleus?

D. Allan Bromley (Fall 1993)
Sterling Professor of the Sciences, Yale University
Whither American Physics

R. E. Smalley (Spring 1992)
Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Rice University
C60 and the Emerging Carbon-Based Nanotechnology

Norman F. Ramsey (Spring 1991)
Higgens Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Experiments on Time Reversal Symmetry and Parity

W.K.H. Panofsky (Spring 1990)
Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
How Big Can Particle Accelerators and Colliders Get?

Leon M. Lederman (Spring 1989)
Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A Brief History of Particle Physics, Miletus to the Supercollider

John P. Schiffer (Spring 1988)
Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Crystallization in Ion Beams

Ernest Mark Henley (Spring 1987)
Professor of Physics and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
Symmetries in Nuclear Physics


The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin