"And It Was a Very Good Year!" Anniversaries of Breakthroughs in Physics and Astronomy

Chaired by Rebecca Ullrich of Sandia National Laboratories, this event discusses significant moments in physics and astronomy.

Agenda

• 3:00 p.m. - 3:36 p.m.: Lena Zuchowski on "Maxwell & Gibbs: 150 Years since the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics"

• 3:36 p.m. - 4:12 p.m.: Virginia Trimble on "Harvard, Howard, and Gradual Incorporation: 1923"

• 4:12 p.m. - 4:48 p.m.: Chad R. Orzel on "Seventy-Five Years of QED"

• 4:48 p.m. - 5:24 p.m.: Donnell Walton on "Willie Hobbs Moore: the First African-American Woman Physics PhD"

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