Joseph Henry Lectures

Unlost – Recovering the Text of Burnt and Carbonized Scrolls

Reading Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT and AI

Brent Seales

Professor of Computer Science
University of Kentucky

Architecture for the New Space Age

Learning to Work and Live Beyond Earth

Paul Kessler, Eleanor Morgan, Daniel Inocente, and Corky Clinton

Paul D. Kessler
Aerospace Technical Manager
NASA

Eleanor E. Morgan
Space Architect & Program Manager
Lockheed Martin

Daniel Inocente
Senior Space Architect
Blue Origin

Raymond "Corky" Clinton
Senior Technical Advisor, Science & Technology Office
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars

First Controlled Powered Flight on Another Planet

J. (Bob) Balaram

Chief Engineer of Ingenuity
JPL/CalTech

Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli

Director, The Quantum Gravity Group
Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Aix-Marseille University

The Event Horizon Telescope

First Ever Images of a Black Hole

Sheperd S. Doeleman

Founding Director, Event Horizon Telescope
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

With Colleagues:
Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Andrew Strominger, Professor of Physics, Harvard University

The Big Bang and Inflation

Glimpsing The Beginning of Time From the Ends of the Earth

Brian Keating

Professor of Physics
Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
University of California at San Diego

Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn

How it Revolutionized Our View of Planets, Moons, and the Possibilities for Life in the Universe

Speakers from NASA, Cornell, & JPL

Exoplanets and the Search for Life

An Exploration in Four Lectures

Speakers from NASA & Yale University

The Exploration of Pluto

Alan Stern

Principal Scientist, New Horizons
Vice President for Research, Southwest Research Institute
CEO, Uwingu and The Golden Spike Company

Synthetic Biology

The Technology Engine of the 21st Century

Pamela Silver

Professor, Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

A Worm’s Tale

Secrets of Evolution and Immortality

Craig C. Mello

Nobel Prize, Medicine or Physiology, 2006
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine & Co-Director,
RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Curiosity’s Robotic Exploration of Mars’ Gale Crater

John P. Grotzinger

Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology
Chief Mission Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, aka "Curiosity"

Synthesizing Life

Lee Cronin

Gardiner Professor of Chemistry
University of Glasgow

2020 Vision

A Decadal View of New Worlds and New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Debra Elmegreen

Maria Mitchell Professor of Astronomy
Vassar College

Cosmos and Culture

Life in the Universe and Its Implications for Humanity

Steven J. Dick

Chief Historian
NASA (Retired)

Our Microbial Partners and Their Roles in Health and Disease

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett

Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland

Arsenic in Ground Water

Aquatic Chemistry and Mitigation through a Sustainable Filtration Technology

Abul Hussam

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George Mason University

The Very First Light

The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe

John Mather

Co-Recipicent of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2006)
Senior Astrophysicist
Observational Cosmology Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Latest Scientific Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers

Jim Garvin

Chief Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe

William Phillips

NIST, Nobel Laureate

Oceans and Human Health

A Symbiotic Relationship between People and the Sea

Rita R. Colwell

Biology and Humans in Space

Baruch Blumberg

The Cholesterol Myths

Uffe Ravnskov

The Human Computer and the Birth of the Information Age

David A. Grier

Global Warming

Hot Talk, Cold Science

S. Fred Singer

President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

Quantum Crystallography, a Tool for Enhancing Information from Crystallographic Data

Isabella Karle

Naval Research Lab

What Hubble Didn’t Know About the Universe

Vera C. Rubin

Mars in Fact versus Fiction

Donna Lee Shirley

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

How do Protein Molecules Self-Assemble?

George D. Rose

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Designer Brain

Receptor-Neurotransmitter Research, the Scientific and Social-Ethical Implications

Richard M. Restak

George Washington Medical School

Environmental Influences on Brain Structure and Function

Marian Diamond

Origin, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Universe

Cyril Ponnamperuma

Director, Laboratory of Chemical Evolution
University of Maryland

Is It Possible to Construct a Perception Machine?

Gerald M. Edelman

The Case for Ending Drug Prohibition

The Emerging Alternative Addiction Paradigm

Joe G. Foreman

Scientist and Former President of the Society

The Theory of the Electron

Fritz Rohrlich

State University of Iowa

New Developments in High Magnetic Field Research

Francis Bitter

The Physical Universe

Hebert Dingle

Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

What is Electricity?

Paul R. Heyl

National Bureau of Standards

Spinors

Oswald Veblen

Professor
The Institute for Advanced Study

High Voltage

Karl T. Compton

President
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Work of Joseph Henry in Relation to Applied Science and Engineering

Arthur E. Kennelly

Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Certain Aspects of Henry’s Experiments on Electromagnetic Induction

Joseph S. Ames

President
Johns Hopkins University