DATE FIRST LAST INSTITUTE TITLE - Through end of Spring 2007 series
 * - Lindsay Lecturer, & Nordberg Lecturer, # Bahcall Lecturer
   
4/11/2003 Mark Abbott Oregon State Univ. Re-envisioning the Ocean: the View from Space  
3/19/1971 George O. Abell UC-Los Angeles Critical Discussion of the Extra-Galactic Distance Scale  
2/18/1966 Philip H. Abelson Carnegie-GL Origin of Life in the Solar System  
11/12/1976 Philip H. Abelson Carnegie-GL World Energy During the Next Two Decades  
10/28/1994 Marc Abrahams MIT The Best From the Journal of Irreproducible Results  
5/1/1992 Helmut Abt Kitt Peak Nat. Obs. Contemporary & Future Scientific Publication & Data Distribution  
1/21/2005 Steve Ackerman U. Wisconsin Assessing from Space the Effects of Clouds on Weather and Climate  
3/19/1993 Loren Acton Lockheed Palo Alto X Ray Movies of the Sun  
11/19/1982 Mario Acuna GSFC Saturn's Magnetosphere: Interaction with Saturn's Moons  
5/15/1998 Mario Acuna GSFC Magnetic Mars  
2/18/2000 Mario Acuna GSFC Update on Mars Magnetism  
9/16/1966 Robert Adair Yale Quarks  
11/5/1993 Robert Adair Yale The Physics of Baseball  
11/15/2002 Eric Adelberger& Univ of Washington Using Laser-Ranging to the Moon to Test Fundamental Questions about Gravity  
1/27/1967 Isidore Adler GSFC Scientific Lunar Exploration--Wherefore and Where To?  
2/6/1970 Isidore Adler GSFC Summary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Analyses  
5/5/1967 Yakir Aharonov Yeshiva, NY Superselection Rules  
4/7/2006 Michael A'Hearn U. Maryland Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1  
1/29/1988 Michael F. A'Hearn U. Maryland Scientific Results from Halley's Comet  
2/14/2003 Joanna Aizenberg Bell Laboratories Arms with Eyes: the Visual System of a Starfish  
2/7/1992 Daniel Albritton NOAA Aeronomy Lab Greenhouse Effect: What We Know & Don't Know, How We'll Learn More  
10/7/1994 Charles Alcock Lawrence Livermore Microlensing and MACHOS  
5/9/1975 Joseph K. Alexander GSFC New Vistas in Planetary Radio Astronomy  
3/4/1977 Shelton S. Alexander Penn State Crustal Structure of Eastern U.S. and Location of Nuclear Reactors  
9/21/1973 Hannes Alfven UC-San Diego Space Research and the Origin of the Solar System  
1/7/1977 Hannes Alfven UC-San Diego The Evolution of the Solar System  
12/8/1978 Clarence R. Allen Caltech Advances in Earthquake Hazard Evaluation  
1/11/2002 Timothy Allen U. Wisconsin Complexity of Organization and the Cycles of Human History  
4/10/1970 Lawrence H. Aller UC-Los Angeles Planetary Nebulae  
2/18/1994 Richard Alley Penn State Abrupt Climate Changes in Greenland  
1/8/1982 Walter Alvarez UC-Berkeley Death of the Dinosaurs  
3/15/1968 Edward Anders Chicago Ages, Orbits, and Origin of Meteorites  
3/29/1985 James Anderson Harvard Stratospheric Research: From Description to Prediction  
3/5/1993 Philip Anderson Princeton High Temperature Superconductivity  
6/5/1992 Don L. Anderson* Caltech Plumes, Plates, and Deep Earth Structure  
9/14/1979 Robert Annan Dept. of Energy Toward a Solar Future  
10/2/1981 John O. Annexstad Johnson Space Ctr. The Antarctic Meteorites: Search and Discovery  
4/15/1994 Stuart Anstis UCal/San Diego To Understand Visualization, It Helps to Understand Vision  
9/27/1974 John R. Apel NOAA-Miami Ocean Science from Space: Air, Earth, Fire, and Now Water  
2/16/1990 John R. Apel APL Mapping the Ocean Surface with Imaging Radars  
9/29/2000 Nima Arkani-Hamed Lawrence Berkeley Lab How to Make Gravity Join the Other Forces of Nature at a Reasonable Energy: Localizing Gravitons in an Extra Dimension  
12/12/1975 James R. Arnold UC-San Diego Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System  
4/30/1971 Halton C. Arp Hale Obs. Quasars, Galaxies and Redshifts  
12/14/1984 Richard Ascione NIH Genetics of Cancer  
1/10/2003 Neil Ashby Univ. of Colorado Large and Small Relativistic Effects in the Global Positioning System  
9/24/1971 R. Grant Athay Boulder-HAO Recent Developments in Solar Atmospheric Physics  
2/17/1978 David Atlas GSFC From Angels to CAT  
5/14/1993 David Atlas GSFC Footprints of Storms in Sea: View from Spaceborne Syn.Aper.Radar  
4/23/1999 Robert Atlas (Joint) GSFC Use of Satellite Observations in Support of Weather and Short-Term Climate Prediction  
11/4/2005 Brian Atwater U.S. Geological Survey The Orphan Tsunami of 1700  
11/3/1992 Norman Augustine Martin Marietta SPACEFLIGHT: Lessons of Past & Opportunities of Next Millennium  
12/12/1969 W. Ian Axford UC-San Diego The Polar Wind  
5/19/1986 W. Ian Axford ESA First Results from the Giotto Encounter with Comet Halley  
4/6/1990 George Backus UC-San Diego The Magnetic Jerk of 1970: Geophysical Evidence and Implications  
10/8/1993 Frances Bagenal Univ. Colorado The Peculiar Role of Io in the Magnetosphere of Jupiter  
12/6/1996 Jonathan Bagger Johns Hopkins The Problem of Mass  
3/14/1997 John Bahcall Inst. Adv. Study Solar Neutrinos  
4/27/1979 John N. Bahcall Princeton-IAS Solar Neutrinos  
5/8/1992 John N. Bahcall Princeton-IAS How Does the Sun Shine?  
11/16/1984 Neta A. Bahcall STScI Superclusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe  
5/28/1993 Per Bak Brookhaven Self Organized Criticality  
10/13/1989 Daniel F. Baker GSFC Magnetospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Research  
3/4/1994 Victor Baker Univ. Arizona Oceans on Mars  
3/19/2004 Dennis Baldocchi U. California, Berkeley Modeling Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems  
4/11/1975 Ralph B. Baldwin Oliver Mach. The Moon--Before and After Apollo  
3/23/2007 Bruce Balick Univ. Washington Collimating Stellar Ejecta  
12/1/1995 Sallie Baliunas Harvard-Smithsonian Solar Variability and Global Climate Change  
1/25/1980 Robert Ballard Woods Hole Viewing the Ocean Bottom  
3/4/1983 Thomas F. Banchoff Brown The Fourth Dimension and Computer Animated Geometry  
4/16/1982 William R. Bandeen GSFC Early Meteorological Observations from Space  
5/31/1996 Bradley Barber AT&T Lucent Labs Sonoluminescence: Light from Sound  
5/12/2006 Amy  Barger U. Wisconsin The Midlife Crisis of the Cosmos  
5/4/1990 Tim Barnett Scripps Can We Detect the Greenhouse Gas Signal in the World's Oceans?  
11/21/1997 John Baross U. Washington Life at the Bottom of the Ocean  
3/1/1968 Alan H. Barrett MIT Masers & Mysterium--Observations of Interstellar Hydroxyl Radicals  
9/16/1977 Eric C. Barrett UK-Bristol Improved Rainfall Assessment w/ Conventional Sources & Satellites  
10/5/1984 Eric Barron Boulder-NCAR Climate Change over the Million Year Time Scale  
11/8/1996 Eric Barron Penn State Predicting Changes in River Basin Hydrology...  
3/2/1973 Charles A. Barth Boulder-UC Mariner 9 UV Measurements of Mars  
5/24/1996 Gibor Basri U.Cal. Berkeley Brown Dwarfs for Real  
1/23/2004 Bonnie Bassler Princeton University Small Talk: Cell-to-cell Communication in Bacteria  
5/6/1988 Maria Bastillo Genetics/IVF Inst. New Frontiers in Assisted Human Reproduction  
10/20/1967 Louis J. Battan Arizona Weather Modification: Past and Present  
3/29/1974 Siegfried J. Bauer GSFC The Ionospheres of the Planets  
12/15/1978 Siegfried J. Bauer GSFC First Results from the Pioneer Venus Missions  
4/29/2005 John Beacom Ohio State U. Towards First Glimpses of the Universe in Neutrinos  
11/18/1966 Donald Beattie NASA HQ Post-Apollo Lunar Exploration  
2/8/2002 Luann Becker U. Cal, Santa Barbara Evidence for Impact-Generated Extinctions  
10/8/2004 Steven   Beckwith SpaceTelescope Science Inst. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field  
1/25/1985 Charles Beichman JPL Extragalactic Sources in the IRAS Survey  
10/1/2004 Gordon Bell Bay Area Research Center MyLifeBits: The Memex Vision and Some Implications of Storing Everything Personal  
1/17/1969 P. R. Bell Manned Spacecraft C Evidence for Water on the Moon  
4/11/1980 Peter M. Bell Carnegie-GL Ultra High Pressure Experiments--Application to Earth and Planets  
2/9/1968 Michael J. S. Belton KPNO Clouds on Venus  
2/21/2003 Charles Bennett GSFC Taking the Measure of the Universe  
4/23/1971 Carl S. Benson Alaska Polar Glaciology and Ice Fog  
5/21/1982 Edward R. Benton Boulder-UC Earth's Core: Clues to the Origin of its Magnetic Field  
11/1/1968 Peter G. Bergmann Syracuse Theories of Gravitation  
12/8/1989 Richard B. Bernstein UCLA Arranging Collisions Between Molecules and Surfaces  
10/13/2006 Pawan Bhartia GSFC Ultraviolet Observations of our Changing Planet  
3/10/1999 Giovanni Bignami Italian Space Agency Comets, Planets, and the Sky: Italy's Roots in Space  
9/15/1978 Giovanni F. Bignami Italy-Milan Gamma Ray Astronomy Revisited: from Our Galaxy to Other Galaxies  
1/9/1976 John Billingham Ames Research Ctr. Interstellar Communication and Project Cyclops  
11/16/1990 Robert Bindschadler GSFC Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet  
2/2/2007 Robert Bindschadler GSFC Ice Sheets on the Edge  
3/18/1988 Richard P. Binzel PSI-Tucson A New Look at Pluto  
10/31/1975 Thomas J. Birmingham GSFC Jupiter's Magnetosphere in Light of Pioneers 10 and 11  
5/20/1966 Amasa S. Bishop AEC Roadblocks in the Path of Controlled Fusion  
4/23/1993 David Black Lunar & Plan.Inst. Planets of Other Stars  
4/8/1966 Jacques E. Blamont France-NCSR Dynamics of the Lower Ionosphere  
2/2/1990 Roger D. Blandford Caltech Gamma-Ray Burst Models  
2/16/1968 Robert C. Bless Wisconsin Ultraviolet Stellar Astronomy  
3/2/1990 Leo Blitz U. Maryland The Bar in the Center of the Galaxy  
5/29/1998 John Blondin North Carolina State Supercomputer Simulations of Gas Flows in Binary Star Systems  
3/6/1992 Howard B. Bluestein U. Oklahoma Tornadoes in the Southern Plains: Visual Obs. & Meteorolog. Meas.  
2/3/1967 Harry Blum AFCRL Processes in Perception  
9/17/1999 Baruch Blumberg Astrobiology Institute The Discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus and the Invention of a Vaccine to Prevent Cancer  
1/7/2000 Martin Blume Amer. Phys. Soc. The Physical Review and Scientific Publishing: Past and Future  
9/8/1978 Albert Boggess GSFC Observing with IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer)  
5/11/1990 Craig Bohren Penn State All That's Best of Dark and Bright (Atmospheric Optics)  
3/3/2000 Craig Bohren Penn State U. Green Thunderstorms  
5/12/1967 Bart J. Bok Arizona The Spiral Structure of Our Galaxy  
4/27/1973 Bart J. Bok Arizona The Birth of Stars  
3/31/1978 Elihu A. Boldt GSFC The New Era in X-Ray Astronomy  
12/11/1998 Howard Bond Space Telescope Sci. Inst. Planetary Nebulae with Hubble Space Telescope  
4/15/1988 Roger Bonnet ESA-Paris Fundamental Science & Space Science within the Horizon 2000 Progrm  
10/22/1993 Dan Boone Wilderness Society Old Growth Forests  
2/7/1975 Jan Borgman Netherl.-Groningen First Results from the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite  
3/17/1978 Jay P. Boris NRL Uses of High-Speed Computers for Simulating Physical Systems  
2/10/2006 Penelope Boston New Mexico Inst. Mining Tech. The Planet Within: Cave Habitats from Earth to Mars and Beyond  
4/13/2007 William Bottke Southwest Res. Inst. New Views on the Lunar Late Heavy Bombardment  
10/31/1986 Thomas J. Bouchard U. Minnesota Identical Twins Reared Apart: How Similar are They?  
2/11/1966 Robert Bourdeau GSFC The Earth's Ionosphere  
10/24/1969 Sidney Bowhill Illinois The Chemistry of the Lower Ionosphere  
3/17/1995 Mark Bowick Syracuse Cosmic Cracks in Liquid Crystals--the Universe in a Drop  
12/12/1986 Stuart Bowyer UC-Berkeley The Cosmic Far Ultraviolet Background  
12/14/1979 Larry H. Brace GSFC Solar Wind Interactions w/ Venus Ionosphere--Pioneer Venus Orbiter  
1/19/1979 Hale V. D. Bradt MIT Black Holes, Neutron Stars, Quasars: SAS-3 & HEAO-1 X-Ray Astronm.  
2/2/1973 John C. Brandt GSFC Rock Art Astronomy  
2/15/1980 John C. Brandt GSFC The Plasma Tails of Comets: How They Come and Go  
9/27/1985 John C. Brandt GSFC The ICE Encounter with Comet Giacobini-Zinner  
4/4/1986 John C. Brandt GSFC First Spacecraft Results from Halley's Comet  
12/4/1970 Lewis M. Branscomb NBS A National Policy for Applied Science  
3/9/1984 Kenneth Brecher GSFC & Boston Coll. Which Came First---the Universe or the Laws of Physics?  
3/11/2005 Sean Brennan U.S. Geological Survey Seawater Chemistry and the Advent of Biocalcification, or the Chemical Origins of Seashells  
11/4/1983 Francis P. Bretherton Boulder-NCAR Oceanography from Space  
1/15/1993 Francis P. Bretherton Wisconsin Sources of Uncertainty in Predictions of Global Warming  
5/27/1988 Robin Brett USGS-Reston Field Trip to a Mid-Ocean Ridge  
1/12/1968 Neil M. Brice Cornell Magnetospheric Substorms, Van Allen Radiation, & the Polar Aurora  
2/12/1982 Alan H. Bridle NRAO-NM Jets in Radio Galaxies  
2/19/1971 Stanley J. Brodsky Stanford The Present and Future State of Quantum Electrodynamics  
10/26/2001 Wallace Broecker Columbia Circulation Pattern in the Glacial Ocean  
10/4/1968 Wallace S. Broecker Columbia-Lamont Glacial Cycles and Their Causes  
1/12/1979 Wallace S. Broecker Columbia Carbon Dioxide, the Oceans and Climate  
11/19/1993 Wally Broecker Lamont-Doherty Geo. What Do Paleoclimatic Data Tell Us About Expected Future Climate  
4/1/2005 Volker Bromm U. Texas The First Sources of Light    
3/13/1998 Clint Brooks NSA Cryptography  
10/20/2000 Lincoln Brower Sweet Briar Biological Studies of the Migration of the Monarch Butterfly  
3/8/2002 Emma Brown U.S. Forest Service What Burns Me About the Way We Fight Wildfires  
2/3/2006 Tom Brown Space Telescope Sci.Inst. The Age of Andromeda  
2/4/1972 Stephen G. Brush Maryland Relations Between Planetary Science & "Pure" Science in 19th Cent.  
5/15/1970 Reid A. Bryson Wisconsin Our Changing Climate  
2/5/1993 Philip Bucksbaum Michigan Atoms in Really Intense Light  
3/25/1977 Edward Bullard UC-San Diego Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field  
2/13/2004 Alan Bunner NASA HQ (retired) Reflections on the Anthropic Principle  
4/5/1968 E. Margaret Burbidge UC-San Diego The Spectra of Quasi-Stellar Objects  
5/10/1974 E. Margaret Burbidge UC-San Diego The Redshift Controversy  
10/22/1976 Geoffrey Burbidge UC-San Diego Confrontation of Cosmological Theories with Observational Data  
6/14/1985 E. Margaret Burbidge* UC-San Diego Radio Galaxies, Quasars and Jets  
2/23/2001 James Burch Southwest Research Inst. "First Light" from the IMAGE Spacecraft  
3/12/1971 Bernard F. Burke MIT Long-Baseline Interferometry  
9/19/1986 Bernard F. Burke MIT Gravitational Lenses  
5/9/1997 Kevin Burke Univ. Houston The African Plate and Small Scale Convection...  
9/30/1977 Kevin C. Burke SUNY-Albany Continents in Collision: Tibet and the Himalayas  
12/1/1989 Kevin C. Burke Nat.Acad.Sciences The Origin of Mountains  
5/1/1998 Joann Burkholder North Carolina State Pfiesteria Piscicida, Killer of Fish  
5/7/2004 Len Burlaga GSFC Voyager at the Edge of the Solar System?  
2/11/1977 Leonard F. Burlaga GSFC Magnetic Fields and Winds in Interplanetary Space  
3/23/1984 Leonard F. Burlaga GSFC A Voyage through the Heliosphere  
5/28/1999 Jocelynn Bell Burnell Open U./Princeton In Pursuit of Pulsars  
9/24/1993 David Burstein Arizona St. Univ. Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Universe  
4/2/1976 W. Butler Burton NRAO-Greenbank Is There a Basic Spiral Pattern in Our Galaxy?  
10/7/2005 Antionio Busalacchi U. Maryland Climate Variability and Marine Ecosystems: The Role of Forcings and Feedback  
4/23/1999 Antonio Busalacchi (Joint) GSFC Use of Satellite Observations in Support of Weather and Short-Term Climate Prediction  
5/13/2005 Nathalie Cabrol NASA Ames Beyond the Mars Exploration Rove Mission:  from Habitability to Life  
3/24/2006 Robert Cahalan GSFC Three-Dimensional Cloud Properties and Climate  
2/27/1976 John Caldwell Princeton The Atmosphere of Titan  
9/24/1965 A. G. W. Cameron GISS X-Ray Astronomy  
4/7/1978 A. G. W. Cameron Harvard Early History of the Solar System  
4/18/1997 A.G.W. Cameron Harvard Formation of the Solar System  
2/22/1974 William J. Campbell USGS-Tacoma Ice Dynamics  
11/20/1998 Mark Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Ob. Prospects for Improving Forecasts of ENSO (El Nino and the Southern Oscillation) and its Global Consequences  
5/23/1980 Russell D. Cannon Canada-DAO Exploring the Southern Sky--New Clues to Evolution of Galaxies  
3/19/1999 Jean Carlson U.Calif. Santa Barbara Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Faults  
4/26/1985 John B. Carlson Maryland Aztec Calendar: Man, State and Cosmos in Aztec Society  
4/8/2005 Sean Carroll U. Chicago Why is the Universe Accelerating?  
5/18/1973 George R. Carruthers NRL UV Photography from the Moon  
3/26/1999 Daniel Carter New Century Pharmaceuticals Growing Crystals in Microgravity  
3/7/1997 Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Stanford Genes, People, and Languages  
12/13/1968 John Ceraso Rutgers The Interference Theory of Forgetting  
9/17/1982 Catherine J. Cesarsky France-Saclay Galactic Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Supernova Shocks  
4/5/1985 Robert D. Cess SUNY-Stony Brook Climatic Feedback Mechanisms  
3/16/1990 Robert D. Cess SUNY-Stony Brook The Greenhouse Effect in Climate Models  
2/6/2004 Moustafa Chahine Jet Propulsion Lab AQUA, AIRS, and the Earth's Water Cycle  
2/1/2002 Gregory Chaitin IBM Research Paradoxes of Randomness  
11/13/1992 William Chameides Georgia Tech SMOG: The "Bad" Ozone That Wouldn't Go Away  
4/1/1983 Julius S. Chang Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Explosions and Atmospheric Ozone  
6/3/1988 Julius S. Chang SUNY-Albany Modelling Deposition & Transport of Acidic Material in East U.S.  
10/28/2005 Ben Chao GSFC Earth's Changing Rotation and Gravity Field  
2/6/1998 Clark Chapman Southwest Res. Inst. Asteroids  
6/1/1984 Robert D. Chapman GSFC The Mystery of the Eclipsing Binaries Epsilon and Zeta Aurigae  
5/13/1966 Sydney Chapman Boulder-HAO Auroral Morphology and Magnetic Storms  
9/11/1998 Rick Chappell Vanderbilt U. Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future  
5/24/2002 David Charbonneau Cal Tech Extrasolar Planets and the Power of the Dark Side  
3/13/1992 Roger A. Chevalier U. Virginia Supernova 1987A after 5 Years  
6/1/2001 Raymond Chiao U. Cal, Berkeley Faster-than-c Propagation Effects and their Possible Applications  
2/10/1984 Ralph J. Cicerone