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style="color:blue;">List of Previous Hendrik de Waard Lectures</h1> <ul style="list-style-type:square"> <li><strong>2024: </strong><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/people/webb-people-jonathan-gardner/">Jonathan Gardner</a>, Our Universe Through the James Webb Space Telescope</li> <li><strong>2023: </strong><a href="https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/josefine-proll">Josefine Proll</a>, Cleverly Shaped Stellarators</li> <li><strong>2022: </strong><a href="https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/CdeMoraisSmith">Cristiane de Morais Smith</a>, Consciousness, a Quantum Phenomenon?</li> <li><strong>2018: </strong><a href="https://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk/">Rebecca Smethurst</a>, Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Galaxy Eaters?</li> <li><strong>2017: </strong><a href="https://ime.uchicago.edu/awschalomlab/people/david_awschalom/">David Awschalom</a>, Beyond Electronics: Abandoning Perfection for Quantum Technologies</li> <li><strong>2016: </strong><a href="https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/">Marcus du Sautoy</a>, Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry</li> <li><strong>2015: </strong><a href="http://www.sens.org/about/leadership/executive-team">Aubrey de Grey</a>, How Medicine may eliminate aging</li> <li><strong>RUG lustrum: </strong><a href="http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/">Lord Martin Rees</a> (<a href="http://www.crafoordprize.se/press/arkivpressreleases/thecrafoordprize2005.5.32d4db7210df50fec2d800018994.html">Crafoord Prize 2005</a>), From Mars to the multiverse</li> <li><strong>2014: </strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hayneslab/people/john-dylan-haynes">Prof. John-Dylan Haynes</a>, Brain Reading: Facts versus Science Fiction</li> <li><strong>2013: </strong>Prof. Eduard Hovy, Computers: form understanding language, to understanding us</li> <li><strong>2012: </strong><a href="http://www.kroto.info">Sir Harold Kroto</a> (<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/#">Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996</a>), Science, Lost in Translation?</li> <li><strong>2011: </strong><a href="http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/astro/people/SJocelynBellBurnell.htm">Jocelyn Bell-Burnell</a> (<a href="http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1989QJRAS..30..397T&data_type=PDF_HIGH">Herschel Medal 1989</a>), Will the world end in 2012?</li> <li><strong>Silver Jubilee: </strong><a href="http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~sunyaev/">Rashid Sunyaev</a> (<a href="http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/sunyaev/index.html">Bruce Medal 2000</a>), The Secrets of the Big Bang</li> <li><strong>2010: </strong><a href="http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/ullrich/page.php?id=85">Joachim Ullrich</a> (<a href="http://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/1999/index.html">Leipniz Award 1999</a>), Ultra-Brilliant Light for Science</li> <li><strong>2009: </strong><a href="http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~robk/">Robert Kennicutt</a> (<a href="http://www.gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/Cosmology_LaureateBio.php?id=81&awardid=49">Gruber Prize 2009</a>), The invisible Universe</li> <li><strong>2008: </strong>George Whitesides (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=389">National Medal of Science</a>), Questions about questions about the origin of life</li> <li><strong>2007: </strong>William Bialek, Physics Problems in Early Embryonic Development</li> <li><strong>2006: </strong>Jerry Atwood, Molecular Capsules</li> <li><strong>2004: </strong>Peter Vettiger, Micromachines rewrite the future of data storage</li> <li><strong>2002: </strong>Valery V. Nesvizhevsky, Gravity leaps into the quantum world</li> <li><strong>2001: </strong><a href="http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/hau.html">Lene Hau</a>, Walking at the speed of light</li> <li><strong>1999: </strong><a href="http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/">Lawrence M. Krauss</a>, The Physics of Star Trek</li> <li><strong>1998: </strong>Edward van den Heuvel, Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Cosmic Explosions</li> <li><strong>1997: </strong>Samuel Williamson, Magnetic Investigations of Human Brain Functions. (Past away in 2005)</li> <li><strong>1996: </strong>Herbert Walther, Quantum Optics of a Single Atom. (Past away in 2006)</li> <li><strong>1995: </strong>Ahmed Zewail (<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1999/">Nobel Prize Chemistry 1999</a>), Femtoscopy, seeing at the speed of light</li> <li><strong>1994: </strong>Roger Penrose (<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/penrose/facts/">Nobel Prize 2020</a>), Shadows of the mind</li> <li><strong>1993: </strong>Wolfgang Ehrfeld, 3D microstructures</li> <li><strong>1992: </strong>Heinrich Rohrer (<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer.html">Nobel Prize 1986</a>), Experimenting on the nanometer scale</li> <li><strong>1991: </strong>Richard Smalley (<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel _prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/smalley.html">Nobel Prize 1996</a>), Buckyballs, great balls of carbon</li> <li><strong>1990: </strong>Thomas Rosswall, Man and the global environment</li> <li><strong>1989: </strong>Sandy Primrose, The biotechnology revolution</li> <li><strong>1988: </strong><a href="http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/greetings.html">Makato Nagao</a>, Machine translation and beyond</li> <li><strong>1987: </strong>Desmond Smith, Computing with the speed of light</li> </ul> </section> </div> </div> </div>  <footer> <center><h4>Our partners</h4></center> <ul class="partners"><li><a href="https://www.asml.com/en/careers/working-at-asml/netherlands"><img src="/admin/logos/view/69"/></a></li><li><a href="https://davincitrading.com"><img src="/admin/logos/view/68"/></a></li><li><a href="https://www.thalesgroup.com/en"><img src="/admin/logos/view/71"/></a></li><li><a href="https://www.rug.nl/?lang=en"><img src="/admin/logos/view/65"/></a></li><li><a href="https://www.witteveenbos.com/nl/"><img src="/admin/logos/view/70"/></a></li></ul> <span class="line"></span> <ul class="navigation"> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/mijnfmf">MijnFMF</a></li> <li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/privacy">Privacy Statement</a></li> </ul> <span class="line"></span> </footer> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-111504789-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> </div>  <script src="/js/ss-standard.js"></script> <script src="/js/ss-social.js"></script> <script src="/js/events.js"></script> <script src="/js/matchMedia.js"></script>  </body> </html>

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