Racah Lectures in Physics

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The Racah Lecture is annual memorial lecture given at The Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem commemorating Prof. Giulio Racah. The lecturers are selected from among the leading physicists in the world.

List of previous speakers

YearSpeaker
1971 Igal Talmi
1972H. Pekeris
1973 Eugene Wigner
1974 David Pines
1975 Gabriele Veneziano
1976 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1977D. Wilkinson
1978 Hans Bethe
1979 Richard Dalitz
1980 Stanley Mandelstam
1981 Anatole Abragam
1982 Tullio Regge
1983 Haim Harari
1984 Hans Frauenfelder
1985 Edoardo Amaldi
1986 David Gross
1987 Bryce DeWitt
1988 Roy J. Glauber
1989 Francesco Iachello
1990 Jack Steinberger
1991 Alexander Markovich Polyakov
1992 Klaus von Klitzing
1993 Leo Kadanoff
1994 Edward Witten
1995 Michael Berry
1996 Jim Peebles
1997 Giorgio Parisi
1998 Nathan Seiberg
1999 Boris Altshuler
2000 Andrei Linde
2001 Steven Kivelson
2002 Ben Roy Mottelson
2003 Bertrand Halperin
2004 François Englert
2005 Gerard 't Hooft
2006 Jacob Bekenstein
2007 Wolfram Weise  [ de ]
2008 Peter Zoller
2009 Juan Martín Maldacena
2010"Racah Centennial Conference" [1]
2011 Thomas Witten
2012 Anton Zeilinger
2013 David Spergel
2014 Eva Andrei
2015 Bernard Derrida
2016 Jörg Wrachtrup
2017 Marc Mézard
2018 Rainer Blatt
2019 Herbert Levine
2021 Subir Sachdev
2022 David Robert Nelson
2023 Immanuel Bloch
2024 Zohar Komargodski

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