DATE FIRST LAST INSTITUTE TITLE - Through end of Spring 2015 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
1/16/2009 Loren Acton Montana State U.  The Day the Earth Caught Fire
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
5/9/2008 John Adam Old Dominion U. Patterns in Nature
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
4/25/2008 Robert Adler GSFC Satellite-based Variations in Global Precipitation: Climate Scale to Floods
3/28/2008 Anthony Aguirre U. Calif. Santa Cruz The Inflationary Multiverse
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
6/11/2010 M. O.  Andreae Max Planck Inst. Chem.  Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in the Climate System
1/10/2014 Steven Anlage U. Maryland Play It Again Sam, This Time Backwards!
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
9/28/2012 Spiro Antiochos * GSFC The Structure and Dynamics of Stellar Magnetospheres
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
5/2/2008 Kevin Baines Jet Propulsion Lab Saturn in a New Light: Novel Views of Meteorology and Dynamics at Depth by Cassini/VIMS
5/28/1993 Per Bak Brookhaven Self Organized Criticality
2/15/2013 Dan Baker U. Colorado Space Physics Exploration: Basic Research with a High Public Purpose
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
2/4/2011 Michael Benefield Bur. Land Management The Politics of Smoke and the Practical Issues Associated with the Management of Wild and Prescribed Fires in the West
5/6/2011 Dominic Benford GSFC How to Build and Search for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons
2/21/2003 Charles Bennett GSFC Taking the Measure of the Universe
4/23/1971 Carl S. Benson Alaska Polar Glaciology and Ice Fog
3/21/2014 Robert Benson GSFC The First Year of Human Habitation, and Science, at the Geographic South Pole
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
2/24/2011 Roger Blandford # Stanford U./KIPAC Higher Energy Astrophysics
3/23/2012 Michael Blanpied US Geol. Survey The Virginia Earthquakes of August, 2011
4/4/2014 Jacob Bleacher GSFC How Explosive Was Ancient Mars?
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
4/15/2011 William Borucki Ames Research Ctr. Kepler Mission: An Overview of Science Results
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
4/13/2012 Niel Brandt Penn State U. A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth
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
1/13/2012 Harold Brooks NOAA/Severe Storms The Record Breaking 2011 Spring Tornado Season: Historic Perspectives and Challenges for the Future
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
5/16/2014 Lester Brown Earth Policy Inst. The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Wind and Solar Energy
2/3/2006 Tom Brown Space Telescope Sci.Inst. The Age of Andromeda
11/8/2013 Kelly  Brunt GSFC Antarctic Rifts as an Analog for Studying Tidal Motions along Cracks on Icy Satellites
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
5/18/2012 David Burrows Penn State U. Swift J164449.3+573451: Death Throes of an Unlucky Star
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
11/21/2008 Gregory Cajete U. New Mexico Native Science: An Indigenous Philosophy of Human Relationship to the Natural World
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
5/30/2008 Claude Canizares * Mass. Inst. Of Technology The Rise of Cosmic X-Ray Spectroscopy
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
3/1/2013 Paul  Cassak West Virginia U.  Magnetic Reconnection - What is NASA's MMS for Anyway?
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
12/10/2010 David Charbonneau Harvard U.  The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
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
10/28/2011 Steve Chu Secretary of Energy How Innovation has Changed the World and Can Help Change it Again
2/10/1984 Ralph J. Cicerone Boulder-NCAR Biospheric Boundary Conditions for Atmospheric Chemistry
4/3/2009 John Claarke Boston U. HST (and other) Observations of the Aurora on Jupiter and Saturn
3/5/2010 Mark  Clampin GSFC Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
9/20/1968 George W. Clark MIT Observations of Galactic Gamma Rays on OSO-III
1/23/1976 George W. Clark MIT X-Rays from Gravitationally Collapsed Bodies
9/9/1966 John F. Clark GSFC Scientific Research at Goddard: Views and Discussions
11/11/1977 Thomas A. Clark GSFC Sounds of Space: Sounds of Earth
3/23/1990 Garry Clarke U. British Columbia Surging Glaciers
12/2/1988 Donald D. Clayton Rice The Solar Nebula and Before
10/1/1965 Thomas L. Cline GSFC Cosmic Ray Electrons
5/21/1976 Thomas L. Cline GSFC The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
4/11/1969 Preston E. Cloud,Jr. UC-Santa Barbara The Primitive Earth
9/16/1988 Paul Cloutier Rice U. Venus
5/9/1969 Arthur D. Code Wisconsin Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2)
6/1/1990 C. Edward Coffey Duke U. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Update
11/13/1970 Sidney Cohen NIH Drug Abuse: Recent Developments
2/28/1997 Steven C. Cohen GSFC Pacific Plates Subduction: Regional Tectonics...
4/23/2010 Anthony Colaprete Ames Research Ctr. Results from the LCROSS Experiment
1/31/1975 Keith D. Cole Australia-Melbourne Magnetic Storms
12/10/2014 Gabriella Coleman McGill U.  Geeks, Hacker Culture, and Anonymous
12/11/1970 Sidney R. Coleman Harvard Recent Developments in Particle Physics
1/15/1971 Stirling A. Colgate New Mexico-IM&T Cosmic Rays and Supernovae
12/7/1990 Stirling A. Colgate Los Alamos Radio Jets and High Energy Cosmic Rays
1/10/1997 Francis Collins Nat. Ctr. Human Gen The Human Genome Project and the Future of Medicine
2/21/1997 Rita Colwell Univ. Maryland Tracking the Origins of Cholera
11/20/1970 Robert N. Colwell UC-Berkeley The Scientific Basis for Remotely Sensing Earth Resources
1/13/1978 Robert N. Colwell UC-Berkeley Remote Sensing of Natural Resources
11/30/2007 Joey Comiso GSFC Decadal Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Cover
10/17/1969 Barry Commoner Wash.U.-St.Louis Pollution of the Environment
2/26/1993 Richard Conner Harvard Dolphin Sex and Politics
1/20/1995 Jack Connerney GSFC Imaging the Electrodynamic Behavior of Jupiter and Saturn
2/18/2000 Jack Connerney GSFC Update on Mars Magnetism
5/8/1981 Peter S. Conti Boulder-JILA Nature and Evolution of the Most Massive Stars
2/20/1976 Robert S. Cooper GSFC High Energy Laser Technology: a Review
2/2/2001 Bruno Coppi MIT Theoretical and Experimental Results in Fusion Research: Related Issues in Astrophysics
3/30/1979 Ferdinand V. Coroniti UC-Los Angeles Geomagnetic Substorms and Aurora
9/15/1967 Stanley Corrsin Johns Hopkins The Nature of Turbulent Flow
10/12/2012 Athena Coustenis Paris-Meudon Observatory JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE): The First Large ESA Cosmic Vision Mission 
10/21/1983 Anne P. Cowley Arizona State Black Holes in the Large Magellanic Cloud
3/6/1981 R. Cowsik Maryland Elementary Particles and the Cosmos--A Complementary Relationship
1/10/1969 Allan V. Cox Stanford Sea Floor Spreading and the Magnetic History of the Earth
10/24/1980 Allan V. Cox Stanford How North America is Growing: Microplate Tectonics
9/24/1999 Bradley Cox U. Virginia Time Reversal Violation
12/3/2004 Robert Crease Stony Brook U. The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
3/28/2003 Hugh Crenshaw GlaxoSmithKline Microorganisms Use Helical Motion to Orient to External Signals
5/16/1997 James Cronin Univ. Chicago The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
4/21/1989 L. Eugene Cronin Coastal Consultant The Geology and Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay
1/14/2000 David Crossley St. Louis U. The Superconducting Gravimeter as a Geophysical Tool
11/20/1981 John Crowell UC-Santa Barbara The San Andreas Fault
10/17/1997 Tom Crowley Texas A&M Ice Ages in Earth History
2/21/1975 Dale P. Cruikshank Hawaii Recent and Current Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes
1/13/1984 Dale P. Cruikshank Hawaii Pluto and the Satellites of the Outer Planets
5/1/2003 Paul Crutzen Max Planck, Chemistry The Importance of the Tropics in Atmospheric Chemistry
6/12/1987 Paul Crutzen* Max-Planck Inst. Ozone: Essential Gas in Atmosphere, Perturbed by Human Activities
12/12/1997 Robert Curl Rice The Fullerenes: Discovery and Beyond
3/27/1987 Gordon Cutler NIH Premature Puberty: New Insights
4/5/2002 Richard Cytowic Physician/author Synesthesia: Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes
10/26/1973 Alexander Dalgarno Harvard Molecular Processes in the Interstellar Medium
11/9/1973 Paul E. Damon Arizona Carbon-14 Dating: Geophysical and Astrophysical Implications
4/22/1983 Edward Danielson Caltech How We Found Halley's Comet and Other Faint Objects
3/30/1990 Arnon Dar GSFC & Israel Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
1/31/1992 Raymond Dattwyler SUNY-Stony Brook Lyme Disease
10/29/2010 Ashley Davies Jet Propulsion Lab Lava Lakes on Io and Earth – The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Jovian System?
1/18/1980 Douglas Davis Georgia Tech Trace Gases: What They tell Us about the Earth's Atmosphere
10/21/1966 Leverett Davis Caltech The Interplanetary Medium
4/19/1974 Leverett Davis Caltech Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Radiation Belts
10/6/1972 Raymond Davis Brookhaven Solar Neutrinos
4/24/1987 Raymond Davis Pennsylvania Solar Neutrinos
5/9/1969 Robert J. Davis Harvard-SAO Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2)
11/6/1981 T. Neil Davis Alaska Auroras
3/14/2014 Charles Day Physics Today Science News in the 21st Century
5/14/1999 Craig DeForest Stanford/GSFC Polar Plumes of the Sun
2/8/2008 Ruth DeFries U. Maryland Carbon Emissions from Tropical Deforestation: Science Meets Policy
10/29/2014 John Degnan Sigma Space A Celebration of Fifty Years of Satellite Laser Ranging
3/17/2006 Anthony Del Genio Goddard Institute Moist Convection: Its Role in Terrestrial Climate Change and in the Atmospheres of Other Planets
5/6/2005 Drake Deming GSFC First Light from Extrasolar Planets
2/20/2009 Drake Deming GSFC The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets
10/27/1989 David H. DeVorkin Air & Space Museum Response of American Astronomers to Poss. Space Research 1945-50
1/12/1973 John F. Dewey SUNY-Albany Plate Tectonics
5/5/1978 Bryce S. Dewitt Texas New Developments in Black Hole Theory
6/7/2003 Ron Dick Royal Air Force The Schneider Trophy: Advances in Aviation 1913-1931
1/30/2004 Steven   Dick NASA HQ Transits of Venus
4/1/1966 Robert H. Dicke Princeton Gravitation and Space Science
11/3/1972 Robert H. Dicke Princeton General Relativity and the Solar Oblateness
2/23/1996 Mark Dickinson Space Telescope The Evolution of Ancient Galaxies
5/31/2012 James Dickson U. Glasgow Why Ancient Glacier Mummies Are so Important: the Intestinal Contents are Encoded Maps and Diaries
10/4/1974 Robert S. Dietz NOAA-Miami Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading
2/11/2015 Jocelyne DiRuggiero Johns Hopkins U.  Desert Worlds: the Dry Limit for Life
5/22/1998 William Ditto Georgia Tech Experimental Chaos Control
4/24/1992 S. George Djorgovski Caltech Searches for Primeval Galaxies
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