Past Rittenhouse Lectures

 

2011 David Charbonneau - Harvard The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
2008 Michael Brown - Caltech The Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
2005 Rashid Sunyaev The Hard X-Ray Sky
2003 Claude Canizares - MIT Probing Cosmic Plasmas with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
2001 Saul Perlmutter Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe -- What Next?
2000 Charles Alcock The Dark Side of Astronomy
1999 Geoffrey Marcy - Berkeley Extrasolar Planets
1999 Wendy Freedman The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant
1997 Roger Blanford Black Holes: The Ultimate Energy Source