Wolfgang Paul lecture

The entrance area of ​​the Wolfgang-Paul-Hörsaal

The Wolfgang Paul lectures take place every two to three years at the University of Bonn . Financed from the estate of the Bonn Nobel Prize laureate for physics Wolfgang Paul and organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , world-class physicists are invited to give a guest lecture on one or two days.

lectures

• 1994: Richard E. Taylor , Stanford University (Nobel Prize Winner 1990): "Elastic Electron Scattering and the Size of the Proton" and "Elastic Electron Scattering and the Structure of the Proton"
• 1996: Ugo Amaldi , University of Milan : "Physics and Medicine at a New Frontier: Oncological Hadron Therapy" and "Particle Colliders and the Nature of the Vacuum"
• 1998: Steven Chu , Stanford University (Nobel Prize Winner 1997): "Laser cooling and trapping of atoms and bio-molecules"
• 2000: Michael S. Turner , University of Chicago : "How the Universe began" and "Precision Cosmology at the New Millennium"
• 2002: David Mermin , Cornell University : "The Computational Power of Quantum Mechanics"
• 2004: Donald H. Perkins , University of Oxford : “Are diamonds for ever, or do protons decay? A tale of the unexpected "
• 2007: Anton Zeilinger , University of Vienna : "Non-locality and quantum communication"
• 2009: Wolfgang Ketterle , MIT (Nobel Prize Winner 2001): "Superfluid gases near absolute zero temperature"
• 2011: Rolf-Dieter Heuer , CERN : "The search for a deeper understanding of our universe at the Large Hadron Collider: the world's largest particle accelerator"
• 2013: David Wineland , NIST (Nobel Prize Winner 2012): "Wolfgang Paul's ion traps and the quest for quantum control". Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Wolfgang Paul.
• 2016: Hitoshi Murayama , University of Tokyo and University of California, Berkeley : "The Quantum Universe"
• 2019: Paul Corkum , University of Ottawa and National Research Council of Canada : "Extending our time horizon to attoseconds and beyond"

Foundation and organization

In a letter dated November 18, 1991, Wolfgang Paul donated half of his Nobel Prize money to a Wolfgang Paul Foundation for the promotion of international relations, as thanks for the “independence and material help I found in my academic work at the University of Bonn have ” (quote from the letter of foundation). The foundation is administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The aim of the foundation is (quote from the foundation letter):

"From the interest income, an internationally outstanding physicist should be invited to the Physics Institute of the University of Bonn for a guest lecture annually, or better, every second year."

The lectures, primarily the guest lecturer's accommodation costs, are paid for from the interest income. The selection of the lecturer is made by the respective holder of Paul's chair, the Bonn specialist group chairman and the physics reviewer from the Humboldt Foundation. The speakers are always also the winners of the Humboldt Research Prize . The lectures take place in the Wolfgang-Paul-Hörsaal of the university in front of around 500 listeners.

Paul named the renowned lecture series of the Morris Loeb Lectures at Harvard University , the Fermi Lectures at the University of Chicago and the van Vleck Lectures at the University of Minnesota as a role model .

Web links

• Wolfgang Paul Lectures - Physics Institute of the University of Bonn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , accessed on May 6, 2016
2. ↑ Wolfgang Paul Symposium , accessed on May 6, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Paul Foundation , accessed on May 6, 2016