Sackler Lectures
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy was established in 1992 to bring an outstanding speaker to the Harvard College Observatory.
Click on the titles for abstracts and videos of the lectures (when available).
| Speaker | Title | Video | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Canizares | 07 May 1999 | High Resolution Spectroscopy with the Chandra X-ray Observatory | |
| Richard Ellis | 19 February 1998 | Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Distant Galaxies | |
| Roger Angel | 05 September 1996 | How to Look for Primitive Life on Planets Orbiting Other Stars | |
| W.L.W. Sargent | 16 November 1995 | Quasar Absorption Lines and the Evolution of Heavy Elements in the Universe | |
| Donald Lyden-Bell | 16 March 1993 | Inertia and the Closure of the Universe | |
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. | 27 January 1993 | Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity |
