We have a speaker for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 7 P.M. ROOM 144 LOOMIS
Lillian Hoddeson is a historian of science and she will be speaking on the life of John Bardeen, 2 time nobel prize winner and former faculty member of the UIUC physics department. Not only was Bardeen a talented experimentalist and invented the transistor, he won a nobel prize also for a great piece of theoretical work being one of the codevelopers of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory (known widely as BCS theory), a theory describing conventional (non high temperature) superconductors. He was truly amazing and you should come to this truly amazing talk. It should be interesting for people of all levels.
Jack, our meetings and speakers officer, will be copying an article of hers and will leave it outside the Physics Society office. It should be short and easy reading and i suggest that you pick one up so you can get a background of her work and get more out of her talk (and you'll probably have more questions to ask which is ALWAYS good:))
Notice that we planned this talk around that crazy lectures schedule next week, (the more recent nobel laureate and the still alive Freemon Dyson) so all of you could come.
That's all for now,
Katherine