The Yale Physics 2008 Leigh Page Prize Lectures were not held in 2008 due to the speaker’s illness. They were originally scheduled for April 14th, April 16th and April 17th 2008 by Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Monday, April 14, 2008 - Science Coming to an End
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - The Mathematician as an Automaton
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - The Selfish Gene
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. He was later acting Chair and Director of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Professor Page devoted his time to teaching (mostly graduate classes), research, and writing several textbooks. Since 1967, several speakers in the Leigh Page Prize Lecture series have later received Nobel Prizes and other notable awards. In connection with the lecture series, a prize is offered to first year graduate students in recognition of their fine academic record and for the promise of important contributions to the field of physics.