Past Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures
In honour of the memory of Oskar Klein, the Organizing Committee of the Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures every year invites a distinguished researcher to give a Memorial Lecture and to receive the Klein medal.
The Memorial Lectures have been organized since 1988.
| 2022 | Igor R. Klebanov | Strong Interactions, Strings, and Extra Dimensions |
| 2021 | ||
| 2020 | Roy P. Kerr | Kerr Black Holes have no Singularities |
| 2019 | Lisa Randall | New Ideas for Dark Matter |
| 2018 | Leonard Susskind | The Quantum Origins of Gravity |
| 2017 | Sheldon Glashow | Nobel Ideas in Particle Physics |
| 2016 | Kip Thorne | Gravitational Waves: The Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO |
| 2015 | Rashid Sunyaev | Unavoidable Distortions in the Spectrum of CMB and the Blackbody Photosphere of Our Universe |
| 2014 | Andrew Strominger | Conformal Symmetry in the Sky |
| 2013 | Frank Wilczek | Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking: Past Glories, New Frontiers |
| 2012 | Juan Maldacena | Quantum Chromodynamics, Strings, and Black Holes |
| 2011 | Joseph Silk | From Here to Infinity: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe |
| 2010 | Alexei A. Starobinsky | Four Historical Epochs and Four Fundamental Constants of Modern Cosmology |
| 2009 | Peter Higgs | My Life as a Boson |
| 2008 | Helen Quinn | Klein-Gordon (Scalar) Particles in the Universe |
| 2007 | Gabriele Veneziano | String Theory, Gravity, and Cosmology |
| 2006 | Viatcheslav Mukhanov | From Quantum Fluctuations to the Structure of the Universe |
| 2005 | Yoichiro Nambu | Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking: a Tension in Natural Laws |
| 2004 | Pierre Ramond | Sunshine at Midnight: The Neutrino Saga |
| 2003 | Stephen Hawking | Can Fundamental Theory Predict the Universe? |
| 2002 | Martin Rees | From Simple Big Bang to Complex Cosmos |
| 2001 | Andrei Linde | |
| 2000 | David Gross | Towards a Theory of Everything |
| 1999 | Gerard 't Hooft | Can there be Physics without Experiments? Challenges and Pitfalls |
| 1998 | Edward Witten | Magic, Mystery and Matrix |
| 1997 | P. James E. Peebles | Tests of the Relativistic Big Bang Cosmology |
| 1996 | Alexander M. Polyakov | Field Theory as a Universal Language |
| 1995 | Nathan Seiberg | Exact Results in Four Dimensional Quantum Field Theory |
| 1994 | The Klein Memorial Lecture grew into the Klein Symposium to commemorate Klein's 100th birthday. | |
| 1993 | T.D. Lee | |
| 1992 | John A. Wheeler | Delayed Choice Experiments and the Lesson of the Quantum |
| 1991 | Alan H. Guth | Do the Laws of Physics Allow Us to Create a New Universe? |
| 1990 | Hans E. Bethe | Theory of Neutrinos from the Sun |
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1989 |
Steven Weinberg | Beyond the Standard Models |
| 1988 | Chen Ning Yang | Symmetry and Physics |
Last updated: June 22, 2023
Source: Oskar Klein Centre