28 May 1982 | Morton Hamermesh, Minnesota, Some Physics Research at Argonne (1948-1982) |
10 Jan 1986 | G. T. Emery, Indiana U., The Literature of Physics |
17 Jan 1986 | Harry Lipkin, Weizmann and ANL Physics Div., The Impact of the Discovery of the Antiproton |
6 Jan 1989 | Eric Lynn, ANL Physics Div. and AERE, 50 Years of Nuclear Fission |
2 Feb 1990 | Johan Van Klinken, U. of Michigan, History of Electron Polarization and Parity Violation |
27 Apr 1990 | Max Dresden, SLAC, The Dawn of Gauge Theories |
18 May 1990 | Helmut Rechenberg, Northwestern U., The Secret German Uranium Project (1939-1945) |
21 Sep 1990 | John W. Dawson, Jr., Penn State U., The American Career of Kurt Goedel |
29 Mar 1991 | Albert Wattenberg, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Nuclear Physics at the Argonne National Laboratory in the 1940's |
1 Nov 1991 | Alexei Abrikosov, ANL Materials Science Div., Landau: His Life and Achievements |
17 Apr 1992 | Alexei Abrikosov, ANL Materials Science Div., Superconductivity: History and Modern State |
7 Mar 1994 | Morton Hamermesh, U. of Minnesota, Recollections about Jim Monahan and his Work |
7 Oct 1994 | Sharon Bertsch-McGrayne, Author, Nobel Prize Women in Science |
29 Mar 1996 | Lowell Bollinger, ANL Physics Div., An Incomplete History of the Argonne Physics Division |
19 Apr 1996 | Albert Wattenberg, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Enrico Fermi and Physics at Argonne in the 1940s |
7 Jun 1996 | Glenn T. Seaborg, LBNL, Chemical Research with New Elements at the Chemistry Division |
21 Mar 1997 | Helena Pycior, U. of Wisconsin, Marie and Pierre Curie as Scientific Collaborators: A Century of Interpretation and Reinterpretation |
2 May 1997 | Bernd Crasemann, U. of Oregon, X-Rays in Atomic Physics -- Then and Now |
20 Mar 1998 | Laurie M. Brown, Northwestern U., The Hundred-Year-Old Electron and the Nucleus: A History |
27 May 1998 | Jolie Cizewski, ANL Physics Div. and Rutgers U., The Magic Numbers of Maria Goeppert-Mayer: Past, Present, and Future |
23 Apr 1999 | Michael Riordan, SLAC, The Invention of the Transistor |
27 Sep 2002 | J. David Jackson, UC Berkeley and LBNL, Historical Roots of Gauge Invariance |
22 Nov 2002 | >Walter Kutschera, U. of Vienna, Isotope Studies of the Alpine Iceman Oetzi |
27 Feb 2004 | Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey |
4 Jun 2004 | Lynne Osman Elkin, California State U. at Hayward, Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix |
13 May 2005 | Walter Kutschera, U. of Vienna, Synchronizing cultures in the past: Pushing methods of natural sciences and humanities to their limits |
21 Sep 2006 | various, various, Nuclear Physics: The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars A Symposium celebrating John Schiffer's 50 years at Argonne |
16 Feb 2007 | Gordon Baym, U. of Illinois, The Uncertainty Principals: Bohr and Heisenberg from Copenhagen to "Copenhagen" |
21 Sep 2007 | John P. Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., Perspectives on Nuclear Physics over the Past 100 Years |
8 Feb 2008 | Peter G. O. Freund, U. of Chicago, A Passion for Discovery |
29 May 2009 | Murray Peshkin, ANL Physics Div., Reflections on Wartime Los Alamos and Some of Its People |
11 Mar 2011 | Thomas Levenson, MIT, Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiter: Greed, Crime and the Birth of the Modern Idea of Money |
9 Sep 2011 | John P. Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., 100th Anniversary of the Nucleus |
9 Nov 2012 | Dietrich Müller, U. of Chicago, Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago |
24 May 2013 | Peter J. Lu, Harvard U., Modern math in medieval Islamic architecture |
16 May 2014 | William Noel, U. of Pennsylvania, EUREKA! The Archimedes Palimpsest |
17 Oct 2014 | Mark A. Berhow, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Peoria, Illinois, Missiles in Chicago's Backyards: The US Army Nike Missile Defense System of 1950-1975 |
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