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.
Started in 2009
- 2018: Elena Aprile, Columbia University (April 9, 2018)
- 2016: Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University (March 28, 2016)
- 2014: Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany & Ludwid-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany (March 24, 2014)
- 2012: Art McDonald, Queen’s University (November 27, 2012)
- 2011: Samuel Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (December 7, 2011)
- 2010: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University (November 5, 2010)
- 2009: Tsung-Dao Lee, Columbia University (November 6, 2009)