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Nobel Laureate launches Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series at ORNL

Posted at 10:53 pm October 28, 2013
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leave a Comment

Albert Fert

Albert Fert

Three more Nobel winners, former Intel chairman among nine confirmed speakers

Four Nobel Laureates are among nine lecturers who will be participating in the new Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Policy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Albert Fert, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, opens the series on Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. in the Iran Thomas Auditorium at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source.

“The Wigner lectures aim to invigorate scientific discovery and technological innovation and to initiate productive scientific policy debate,” said Thom Mason, laboratory director. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science, Top Stories Tagged With: Ada Yonath, Amit Goyal, Arun Majumdar, C.N.R. Rao, Craig Barrett, Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series, Eugene Wigner, Frances Arnold, Graphite Reactor, materials research, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, Novel Directions for Spintronics: Spin-orbitronics and Magnetic Skyrmions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Peter Grünberg, Science Technology and Policy, Siegfried Hecker, Steven Chu, Thom Mason, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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