George Darwin Lectureship
The George Darwin Lectureship is an award of the Royal Astronomical Society. The George Darwin Lecture is given annually, by a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker', on a topic in astronomy or astrophysics.[1] The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.
George Darwin Lecturers[2]
- 2011 : Michael Turner : Connecting quarks to the cosmos
- 2010 : Carlos Frenk : The Small-Scale Structure of the Universe
- 2009 : Neil Gehrels : SWIFT and its results
- 2008 : Alan Watson : The Birth of Cosmic Ray Astronomy on the Argentine Pampas
- 2007 : Reinhard Genzel : The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way
- 2006 : Michael Werner : The Spitzer Space Telescope: Probing the universe with Infrared Eyes
- 2005 : Joseph Silk : The Dark Side of the Universe
- 2004 : Mike Edmonds : The Elemental Universe
- 2003 : Anneila Sargent : The Formation of Planetary Systems
- 2002 : Ramesh Narayan : Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon
- 2001 : Wendy Freedman : The Expansion Rate of the Universe
- 2000 : Kip Thorne : Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window onto the Universe.
- 1999 : Geoff Marcy : Extrasolar Planets
- 1998 : Michael Perryman : A Stereoscopic View of the Galaxy
- 1997 : Simon White : The Formation of Galaxies
- 1996 : Andrew Fabian : Broad Iron Lines from AGN: Test of Strong Gravity
- 1995 : Bohdan Paczyński : Gravitational micro-lensing and the search for dark matter
- 1994 : Scott Tremaine : Is the Solar System Stable?
- 1993 : Riccardo Giacconi : Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
- 1992 : John Barrow : Unprincipled Cosmology
- 1991 : Sandra Faber : How galaxies (probably) formed
- 1990 : Andre Maeder : Massive Stars in Galaxies
- 1989 : Roger Blandford : Gravitational Lenses
- 1988 : Roger Tayler : The Sun as a Star
- 1987 : Wal Sargent : Observing the evolution of large scale structure in the Universe
- 1986 : Gerald Neugebauer : Infrared astronomy
- 1985 : Robert Wilson: A perspective of ultraviolet astronomy
- 1984 : Icko Iben : The life of an intermediate mass star - in isolation/in a close binary
References
External Links
Royal Astronomical Society