| 20 Mar 1981 | E. H. Farnum, LANL, Fabrication of laser fusion targets |
| 22 May 1981 | James Simpson, ANL High Energy Physics, Stochastic beam cooling - techniques and use |
| 19 Mar 1982 | A. V. Crewe, Chicago, Digital Image Processing in Scanning Microscopy |
| 10 Dec 1982 | Harold Furth, Princeton U., The Tokamak Approach to Fusion Power |
| 28 Oct 1983 | Richard van Frank, Eli Lilly Corp., Industrial Scale Recombinant DNA Technology |
| 27 Jan 1984 | Ken Young, Princeton U., Ohmic Operation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor |
| 6 Apr 1984 | Andrew W. Sandorfi, BNL, Medium Energy Beams with a Light Bulb |
| 11 May 1984 | Lawrence M. Lidsky, MIT, The Trouble with Fusion |
| 18 Jan 1985 | Jeremiah Sullivan, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Technology and Arms Control Issues of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) |
| 19 Apr 1985 | Jerry Nelson, LBNL, The Ten-meter Telescope Project |
| 11 Oct 1985 | Paul C. Lauterbur, U. of Illinois, Urbana, New Directions in NMR Imaging |
| 24 Jan 1986 | Les Burris, ANL Applied Physics Div., The Integral Fast Reactor Project |
| 14 Feb 1986 | Lee C. Teng, Fermilab, Advanced Concepts in Accelerator Design |
| 24 Oct 1986 | Steven Chu, Bell Labs., Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms: Toward Ultracold Temperatures and High Density |
| 21 Nov 1986 | H. Drucker & B. R. T. Frost, ANL OTD, Technology Transfer at Argonne National Laboratory |
| 13 Feb 1987 | Milton Levenson, Bechtel Power Corp., Chernobyl: Lessons and Impact |
| 27 Feb 1987 | Ashton Carter, Harvard U., Technical Aspects of the Military Use of Space |
| 17 Apr 1987 | W. A. Little, Stanford U., Microminiature Refrigeration of the New High Tc Superconducting Chips |
| 18 Dec 1987 | Frank Y. Fradin, ANL OTD, Scientific and Technical Opportunities in High Temperature Superconductivity |
| 2 Dec 1988 | Richard D. Deslattes, NIST, Gaithersburg, High Resolution Diffraction Spectroscopy at Gamma-Ray Energies |
| 16 Dec 1988 | Kaigham J. Gabriel, Bell Labs., Silicon-Based Micromechanical Structures and Devices |
| 6 Jan 1989 | Eric Lynn, ANL Physics Div. and AERE, 50 Years of Nuclear Fission |
| 27 Jan 1989 | James Simpson, ANL High Energy Physics Div., Wake Field Acceleration: Advanced Technology for Linear Colliders |
| 7 Apr 1989 | Alexander DeVolpi, ANL RAS Div., Radiation Detection for Arms Control Verification: Far-out Schemes |
| 12 May 1989 | Russell Messier, Pennsylvania State U., Artificial Diamond: Facts and Fantasies |
| 15 Jun 1990 | Henry Guckel, U. of Wisconsin, Micromechanics |
| 5 Oct 1990 | Samuel A. Werner, University of Missouri, Neutron Interferometric Measurement of the Topological Aharonov-Casher Phase Shift |
| 15 Mar 1991 | Lee Grodzins, MIT, Nuclear Techniques for Finding Chemical Explosives in Airport Luggage |
| 10 May 1991 | Robert Smither, ANL Advanced Photon Source, Crystal Diffraction Gamma-Ray Telescope |
| 7 Feb 1992 | Michael Peshkin, Northwestern U., Passive Robotics and Mechanical Computation |
| 5 Mar 1993 | Alexander Pines, U. of California, Applications of Novel NMR Techniques to Solid Materials |
| 2 Apr 1993 | Helen Edwards, Fermilab, The TESLA Superconducting RF Linear Collider Option |
| 30 Apr 1993 | Kenneth Evenson, NIST, Boulder CO, The Final Measurement of the Speed of Light |
| 10 Sep 1993 | Chandrashekhar Joshi, U. of California, Progress Towards a Laser-Plasma Accelerator |
| 24 Sep 1993 | David Wineland, NIST, Boulder, Single Atom Clocks |
| 12 Nov 1993 | Richard E. Smalley, Rice U., Buckyballs and Nanotechnology |
| 17 Dec 1993 | Paul H. Rutherford, Princeton U., The Status of Magnetic Confinement Fusion |
| 7 Jan 1994 | Richard W. Siegel, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanostructured Materials |
| 10 May 1996 | Charles K. Rhodes, U. of Illinois, Chicago, Nanotechnology Concept for Multiphoton Multikilovolt X-ray Production |
| 11 Oct 1996 | Luiz Da Silva, LLNL, Soft X-ray Lasers and their Applications |
| 18 Oct 1996 | Brian Stephenson, ANL Materials Science Div., Intensity Fluctuation Spectroscopy Using Coherent X-Rays: Nano-Scale and Atomic-Scale Dynamics |
| 22 Nov 1996 | H. Fred Dylla, Jefferson Lab., Developing High-Average-Power Lasers for Material Processing |
| 7 Mar 1997 | Richard L. Garwin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Disposal of Excess Weapon Plutonium and Uranium: What do we know and when will we do it? |
| 25 Apr 1997 | Ming C. Wu, UCLA, Optical Applications of Micromachining Technology |
| 17 Oct 1997 | Margaret Murnane, U. of Michigan, Extreme Nonlinear Optics - Generation of Coherent, Femtosecond, X-Ray Pulses |
| 24 Oct 1997 | Ernst W. Otten, U. of Mainz, Spin Polarized 3He Measurement of the Form Factor of the Neutron and of the Human Lung |
| 20 Feb 1998 | Paul C. Lauterbur, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Diffusional Enhancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| 10 Apr 1998 | Don Edwards, DESY, The TESLA Collaboration: A Major Effort on Superconducting RF Development |
| 11 Dec 1998 | Andrei Mirzabekov, Engelhart Institute of Molecular Biology & ANL Biology Div., Biological Microchips: A Challenge for Engineers, Physicists and Computer Scientists |
| 26 Feb 1999 | Philip Bucksbaum, U. of Michigan, The Phonon Bragg Switch: A Proposal to Generate Sub-Picosecond X-Ray Pulses |
| 5 Mar 1999 | Michael Welch, Washington U. Medical Center, Current Advances in PET and its Applications |
| 23 Apr 1999 | Michael Riordan, SLAC, The Invention of the Transistor |
| 21 May 1999 | Hans Moravec, Carnegie Mellon U., Utility and Universal Robots, Soon |
| 10 Sep 1999 | James F. Bell, Cornell U., Strategy and Science Goals for NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission |
| 15 Oct 1999 | Zheng-Tian Lu, ANL Physics Div., Atom Trap Trace Analysis -- A New Demon on the Block |
| 17 Dec 1999 | John R. Arthur, SLAC., Prospects for an X-ray Free-Electron-Laser Light Source and some Possible Scientific Applications |
| 28 Jan 2000 | John M. Goodkind, U. California, San Diego, Using Superconductivity to Measure Slow Changes in Gravity |
| 25 Feb 2000 | Mark Kasevich, Yale U., Atom Interferometers as Inertial Force Sensors |
| 26 May 2000 | Ralf Roehlsberger, U. Rostock, Resonant X-ray Scattering from Rotating Matter: The Nuclear Lighthouse Effect |
| 23 Jun 2000 | Theodore Postol, MIT, Scientific Fraud in the US National Missile Defense Program |
| 2 Mar 2001 | James J. Laidler, ANL CMT, The Advanced Accelerator Applications Program and Accelerator Transmutation of Waste |
| 16 Mar 2001 | Edward Kibblewhite, U. of Chicago, Adaptive Optics in the 21st Century |
| 23 Mar 2001 | Sam D. Bader, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanomagnetism |
| 22 Mar 2002 | Millicent Firestone, Argonne National Lab, Self-Assembled Nanostructures |
| 19 Apr 2002 | Massimo Salvatores, Argonne National Lab, Physics and Issues of Radioactive Waste Transmutation |
| 31 May 2002 | John Ahearne, Sigma Xi Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Nuclear Energy: Present Technology, Safety, and Future Research Directions |
| 18 Oct 2002 | Jun Ye, Joint Institute for Lab. Astrophysics (JILA), Control of coherent light: Time meets Frequency |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Kenneth M. Kemner, ANL Environmental Research Div., Using High-Energy X-ray Physics to Address Environmental Science Problems |
| 7 Mar 2003 | David Wineland, NIST, Quantum games with trapped atomic ions; whither quantum computation? |
| 9 May 2003 | Hasan Padamsee, Lab. for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell U., Why Superconductivity Will Propel the Next Generation Accelerators for Light Sources and Linear Colliders |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Sam Bader, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanoscience A Source of Innovation for the 21st Century |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Robert L. Park, American Physical Society and U. of Maryland, Being there: the Rise of the Virtual Astronaut |
| 23 Jan 2004 | James F. Miller, ANL CMT, Hydrogen - The fuel of the future |
| 30 Jan 2004 | Zheng-tian Lu, ANL Physics Div., Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Egypt |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Roy Holt, ANL Physics Div., Frontiers at the Femtoscale |
| 19 Mar 2004 | Thomas Bjørnholm, Nano Science Center, U. of Copenhagen, Organic molecules in electronic devices |
| 14 May 2004 | Joel Karp, U. of Pennsylvania, Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Present and Future Technology |
| 7 Dec 2004 | Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford U., Understanding the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident |
| 17 Dec 2004 | Thomas C. Katsouleas, U. of Southern California, Progress on Plasma Accelerators: From the Energy Frontier to Tabletops |
| 4 Apr 2008 | Anneli Munkholm, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, High Power Light Emitting Diodes: Progress & Challenges |
| 30 May 2008 | Claude Lyneis, LBNL, ECR Ion Sources for Nuclear Physics Research |
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