Lecture Series

• 2010
  • The World of Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones
  • The Future of Physics
  • Applications of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
  • The How and Why of the World's Lowest Temperatures
• 2009
  • Science, Society and Sustainability
  • Innovation, Luck and the Optical Frequency Comb
  • Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Light and Matter
  • Passion for Precision
  • How advances in science are made
• 2008
  • How to Find Something New
  • The Science and Policy of Climate Change
  • Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications
  • Creativity, Discovery and Risk: Nobel Prizes Past and Future
  • Blind chance or intelligent design?
  • The History and Fate of the Universe
• 2007
  • Blind chance or intelligent design? The need for basic research
  • Road to the Nobel Prize
  • Electricity in Biology
  • Measuring our Future in Science and Technology
  • Micro to Nanoelectronics
  • The Discovery of Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis Reactions
• 2006
  • Small Wonders - The World of Nanoscience
  • The Nobel Prize and the Future of Science

Ask a Nobel Laureate

Laureate Insights

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  Main Lecture, Chongqing University

  Five years after receiving the Nobel Prize for his discoveries relating to the Optical Frequency Comb, John Hall has far reaching ambitions for its exciting applications.

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  Student Ambitions in China

  Students at Chongqing University filled the seminar room where John Hall took questions on everything from running a laboratory to women in industry.

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  Chongqing 2009

  Here is a little taster of some of the best of the Chongqing 2009 event.

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  John Hall meets Wang Di

  Following his lecture on the Optical Frequency Comb, John Hall sat down with engineering student Wang Di for an informal discussion.

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