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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Scott Anderson Anderson Studies Microcomputer Simulations
Dr. Hyron Spinrad University of California, Berkeley Halley's Comet: What Have We Learned?
Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory How Many Elements Are There?
Dr. John Oldenburg California State University, Sacramento Biomedical Engineering Career Opportunities
Dr. Jeffrey Cuzzi NASA Ames Research Center Voyager Discoveries at Uranus
Dr. William T. Chu UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory the Biomedical Use of Heavy Ions
Dr. William A. Fowler California Institute of Technology the Quest for the Origin of the Elements
Dr. Douglas R. Martin Sonoma State University What Do Physicists Do, Anyway? The Copernican Case
Dr. Darrel W. Smith University of California, Riverside the Discovery of the W and Z Particles
Dr. Alexander L. Fetter Stanford University Superfluid Physics
Dr. Richard Karas Sonoma State University Microcomputing in China
Dr. Lynn R. Cominsky University of California, Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy
Dr. John Billingham NASA-AMES Research Center Life in the Universe
Dr. Joe Tenn Sonoma State University the Hugginses, the Drapers, and the Beginnings of Astrophysics
Dr. David E. Coope SRI International Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy
Dr. Neville Connell Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Erasable Optical Storage: A Revolution in Recording Technology
Dr. W. B. Herrmannsfeldt Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Heavy Ion Accelerators for Inertial Confinement Fusion
Eric Reiter Computer Continuum Interfacing Computers to Physics Experiments
Dr. Kenneth Manes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory High-Powered Lasers
Dr. Jerome Swalen IBM Research Laboratories Optical Properties of Thin Films