18th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Monday, 1 July 1968

11:00 - 12:00 Lecture Werner Heisenberg
Cosmological Problems in Modern Atomic Physics (German Presentation)
15:00 - 16:00 Lecture Julian Schwinger
Magnetic Charge. Binding Agent of Matter?
16:00 - 17:00 Lecture Paul Dirac
How far will Quantum Mechanics go?

Tuesday, 2 July 1968

09:00 - 10:00 Lecture William Bragg
History of the Determination of Protein Structure
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture Aleksandr M. Prochorov
Some Aspects of Quantum Electronics
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture Gustav Hertz
Memories of James Franck and the Electron Scattering Experiments (German Presentation)

Wednesday, 3 July 1968

09:00 - 10:00 Lecture Sir George Thomson
The history of physics in the earlier part of the century
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture Rudolf Mößbauer
Resonance Spectroscopy of Gamma Rays and its Application on Problems of Solid State Physics (German Presentation)
11:00 - 11:45 Lecture Willis Lamb Jr.
An Operational Interpretation of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics
11:45 - 12:30 Lecture Ilja Frank
Connection between Nuclear Physics and Optics

Thursday, 4 July 1968

09:00 - 10:00 Lecture Robert Mulliken
Rydberg Series and Dissociation Relations in the Hydrogen and Helium Molecules
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture Ernest Walton
Particle accelerators with special reference to their early history
11:00 - 11:45 Lecture Isidor Rabi
Science and the future University
11:45 - 12:30 Lecture Robert Hofstadter
New Detectors for High Energy Physics

Friday, 5 July 1968

08:00 - 18:00 Boat Trip Boat-Trip to the Isle of Mainau for Laureates and students