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 physists in the world.

List of Previous Years Speakers

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

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References

  1. "SRacah 2010". phys.huji.ac.il.[ dead link ]