History of Hubert M. James Lecture Series

The Hubert M. James Lecture Series brings distinguished physicists to Purdue University to highlight fundamental aspects of physics for a broad university audience. The Department of Physics and Astronomy established the Hubert James Lecture in 1990 thanks to the generosity of the James family and in recognition of Prof. James’s outstanding service to Purdue University from 1936 to 1974.

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List of Hubert M. James Lecture Series

Year	Name	Title
2024	Prof. Paul Corkum	"Attosecond Science"
2023	Prof. David Hertzog	"Muons: Particles of the Moment"
2021	Prof. Sara Seager	"Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases"
2018	Prof. Barry Barish	"Gravitational Wave Detections from Black Hole Collisions and Neutron Star Collisions"
2016	Dr. Andrea Ghez	"The Monster at the Heart of the Milky Way"
2013	Dr. Theodor W. Hansch	"Passion for Precision"
2012	Dr. Frank Wilczek	"Quantum Beauty"
2011	Dr. Sankar Das Sarma	"Computing with Quantum Knots: Majorana Fermions, Non-Abelians Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation"
2010	Prof. Margaret Murnane	"Attosecond Light and Science at the Time-scale of the Electron: Coherent X-rays from Tabletop Ultrafast Lasers"
2009	Prof. Alexander Pines	"Some recent developments in unconventional NMR and MRI"
2008	Prof. Roger Blandford	"Black Holes: The end of Time or a New Beginning"
2006	Prof. Alexei Abrikosov	"Superconductivity: History and Current State"
2004	Prof. John D. Barrow	"The Constants of Nature"
2003	Prof. Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb	"The Quantum and the Cosmos"
2002	Prof. Donald M. Eigler	"There's Plenty of Room in the Middle: A Perspective From the Bottom"
2000	Prof. Michael V. Berry	"Seven Wonders of Physics"
1999	Prof. Marvin L. Cohen	"Predicting New Materials: Alchemy with Computers"
1998	Prof. Ivar Giaever	"An Electrical Method to Monitor Cell in Tissue Culture"
1997	Prof. David M. Lee	"Superfluidity in Liquid Helium Three"
1996	Prof. C. Kumar N. Patel	"Support for Science in the 21st Century: An Immodest Proposal"
1996	Prof. Freeman J. Dyson	"How the Dinosaurs Might Have Been Saved: Detection and Deflection of Earth-Impacting Bodies"
1995	Prof. Walter Kohn	"Electronic Structure of Atoms, Molecules, and Solids: an Alternative Approach"
1993	Prof. Leon Lederman	"The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?"
1992	Prof. C.N. Yang	"Symmetry and Physics"
1992	Prof. Nicolaas Bloembergen	"Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective"
1990	Prof. Norman F. Ramsey	"Time and the Physical Universe"
1990	Prof. Frederick Reines	"The Neutrino: From Poltergeist to Particle"