Past Yunker Speakers

Previous Yunker Lecturers

Year Speaker Affiliation
2008 Edward W. Kolb Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
2006 W. E. Moerner Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
2005 Sylvester James Gates, Jr. John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Center for String and Particle Theory Director, University of Maryland
2003 Helen Quinn Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
2001 Thomas Rossing Professor of Physics, Northern Illinois University
2000 Art Freeman Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics, Northwestern University
1999 Ted Geballe Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University
1998 Carl Wieman Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado and Fellow of JILA
1997 Douglas Osheroff J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University
1996 Peter Franken Professor of Physics, University of Arizona
1995 John Clarke Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
1994 Anthony Leggett John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
1993 Daniel Kleppner Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992 David Mermin Horace White Professor of Physics, Cornell University
1991 Vera Rubin Senior Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington
1990 Blas Cabrera Professor of Physics, Stanford University
1989 Kip Thorne The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, California Institute of Technology
1988 Richard Garwin IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
1987 Leon Lederman Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
1986 Richard Muller Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
1985 Gary Steigman Professor of Physics, Ohio State University