The Thomas Gold Lectureship Series

On the occasion of the retirement of the world famous astrophysicist, Tommy Gold, the University established the Thomas Gold Lectureship in Astronomy to bring outstanding scientists to Cornell for brief visits.

2006-2007 Lecturer:
Andrew Lyne (University of Manchester)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
4:45 p.m. Schwartz Auditorium
Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium
"The Double Pulsar System J0737-3039"

Thursday, October 25, 2007
4:45 p.m. Schwartz Auditorium
Thomas Gold Lecture
"Pulsars -- The Finest Clocks in the Universe"

Former Thomas Gold Lecturers

1987-88 Peter Goldreich
1988-89 Joseph Taylor
1989-90 Martin Rees
1990-91 Dennis Sciama
1991-92 Gordon Pettengill
1992-93 Tony Hewish
1993-94 Irwin Shapiro
1994-95 Wallace Sargent
1995-96 Lyman Spitzer
1996-97 Igor Novikov
1997-98 David Schramm
1998-99 Mal Ruderman
1999-00 Bohdan Paczynski
2000-01 Clifford Will
2001-02 Frank Shu
2002-03 Vera Rubin
2003-04 Charles Townes
2004-05 Geoff Marcy
2005-06 Roger Blandford