The Yale Physics Department sponsors annual and bi-annual Prize Lectures in physics. These lectures bring distinguished scientists to Yale to present results of groundbreaking research in which they have played significant roles and to interact with our researchers. The series is aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, research staff and faculty, with topics of interest to the departments of Physics, Applied Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics.
Leigh Page Prize Lectures
The Leigh Page Prize Lecture series are given each year by a distinguished physicist in honor of Leigh Page who received his PhD in Physics from Yale in 1913.
Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture
The Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture was established in honor of physicist Hanan Rosenthal, a brilliant graduate student at Columbia University and instructor at Yale.
Miller-Breit Memorial Lecture
The Miller-Breit Memorial Lecture was established in honor of John Milton Miller (B.A. 1904, M.A. 1907, Ph.D. 1915) and Gregory Breit (Yale faculty 1947-1968) in order to bring a distinguished lecturer in physics to Yale each year.
Vernon W. Hughes Lecture
The Vernon W. Hughes Lecture was established in honor of Vernon W. Hughes, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and Elementary Particle Physicist to be used to fund the the lectorship with a portion used to support the facilites within which the lecturship and other activities of the department take place. Hughes was on the Yale faculty from 1954 until his retirement in 1991. He was Sterling Professor, the highest honor that Yale can bestow.
Howard L. Schultz, Sr. Prize Lecture
The Howard L. Schultz, Sr. Prize Lecture is given each year by a distinguished physicist in honor of Howard L. Schultz, Sr. who received his PhD in Physics from Yale in 1937, where he was an instructor from 1938 until 1940. Talks are hosted by the Yale Society of Physics Students.
