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Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal is a colloquium-style distinguished lecture that takes place at
Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal is a colloquium-style distinguished lecture that takes place at AlbaNova
AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm Center for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology is a "research and education initiative run jointly by the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University." Currently represented subjects include phy ...
University Center in Stockholm on annual basis. The lecture commemorates Lise Meitner
Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...
who spent a substantial part of her career in Stockholm. AlbaNova University Center hosts physics departments of
the Royal Institute of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolo ...
, Stockholm University
Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...
and Nordita
The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, or NORDITA, or Nordita ( da, Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Fysik), is an international organisation for research in theoretical physics. It was established as Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Atomfys ...
.
The Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture is sponsored by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...
through its Nobel Committee for Physics
The Nobel Committee for Physics is the Nobel Committee responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
.
Past lectures
*2015: Frank Wilczek (MIT)Physics in 100 years *2016: Bert Halperin (Harvard University)Defects with Character: Zero-Energy Majorana Modes in Condensed-Matter Systems *2017:Duncan Haldane
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist who is currently the Sherman ...
(Princeton University)Topological Quantum Matter and Entanglement
*2018: Lene Vestergaard Hau
Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University.
In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...
(Harvard University) The art of taming light
*2019: Michael Berry (Bristol University) Geometric phases and the separation of the world
*2020: Immanuel Bloch (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching)
*2021: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born June 11, 1976, in Valencia) is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Biography
Jarillo-Herrero received in 1999 his Licenciatura ...
(MIT)
See also
*List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...
External links
*References
{{Reflist Physics awards Stockholm University Awards of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences