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Twenty-First Van Vleck Lecture

Abigail and John Van Vleck Lectures

The Twenty-First Abigail and John Van Vleck Lecture

Freeman J. Dyson

Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton

May 15, 1996 4:00 pm

Van Vleck Auditorium, Room 150, Tate Laboratory of Physics
Public Lecture: "How the Dinosaurs Might Have Been Saved: Detection and Deflection of Earth-Impacting Comets"
Welcoming Remarks: H. Ted Davis, Dean, Institute of Technology
Introduction: Marvin L. Marshak, Head, School of Physics and Astronomy
Speaker: Professor Freeman J. Dyson

Reception following the lecture: Room 216, Tate Laboratory of Physics

May 16, 1996 4:00 pm

Van Vleck Auditorium, Room 150, Tate Laboratory of Physics

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium:
"New Directions in Applied Physics"

The Van Vleck Lecture Series is made possible by a gift to the Institute of Technology from Abigail Pearson Van Vleck, the wife of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.
Mrs. Van Vleck is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She died in February of 1989.


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