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Abigail and John Van Vleck Lectures

John Van Vleck with his wife, Abigail
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.

John Van Vleck, who died in 1980, served for thirty-five years as Professor and later as Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University until his retirement in 1969.

Early in his career, he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of Minnesota.

Van Vleck is universally recognised as the father of modern magnetism.

Previous Lecturers

1983: P.W. Anderson, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Princeton University
1984: W.A. Fowler, California Institute of Technology
1985: B. Bleaney, University of Oxford
1986: K. von Klitzing, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
1987: M. Gell-Mann, California Institute of Technology
1988: John Bardeen, University of Illinois, Urbana
1988: N. Bloembergen, Harvard University
1989: L. Kadanoff, University of Chicago
1989: S. Glashow, Harvard University
1989: S. Hawking, University of Cambridge
1989: L. Lederman, Fermi National Laboratory and University of Chicago
1990: K. Alex Muller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and University of Zurich
1990: Charles H. Townes, University of California, Berkeley
1991: Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn, Germany
1992: Ben R. Mottelson, NORDITA, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993: Frank J. Low, university of Arizona
1994: Victor F. Weisskopf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1994: Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University
1995: Paul C. W. Chu, University of Houston
1995: P.G. de Gennes, College de France, Paris
1996: Freeman J.Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1997: Charles P. Slichter, University of Illinois, Urbana
1998: Charles F. Stevens, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1999: Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford University
2000: Yakir Aharonov, Tel Aviv University and University of South Carolina
2001: James W. Cronin, University of Chicago
2002: Horst L. Stormer, Columbia University
2003: John N. Bahcall, Institute of Advanced Study