Lecture Series

• 2010
  • The World of Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones
  • The Future of Physics
  • Applications of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
  • The How and Why of the World's Lowest Temperatures
• 2009
  • Science, Society and Sustainability
  • Innovation, Luck and the Optical Frequency Comb
  • Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Light and Matter
  • Passion for Precision
  • How advances in science are made
• 2008
  • How to Find Something New
  • The Science and Policy of Climate Change
  • Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications
  • Creativity, Discovery and Risk: Nobel Prizes Past and Future
  • Blind chance or intelligent design?
  • The History and Fate of the Universe
• 2007
  • Blind chance or intelligent design? The need for basic research
  • Road to the Nobel Prize
  • Electricity in Biology
  • Measuring our Future in Science and Technology
  • Micro to Nanoelectronics
  • The Discovery of Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis Reactions
• 2006
  • Small Wonders - The World of Nanoscience
  • The Nobel Prize and the Future of Science

Ask a Nobel Laureate

Laureate Insights

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  Measuring our Future in Science and Technology

  John Hall describes the history and evolution of measurement standards, like the metre and second, from the Ancient Greeks' star gazing to the world's most accurate atomic clocks.

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