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July 30, 2007

Physicist Joel Primack gives prestigious Oppenheimer Lecture at Los Alamos

By Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu

July was a busy month for Joel Primack, professor of physics. The highlight was delivering the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, the annual lecture is a prestigious honor, and previous speakers include such notable figures as physicists Hans Bethe and Murray Gell-Mann, biologist James Watson, and biochemist Linus Pauling.

In his talk, Primack discussed the ideas in his recent book on cosmology, The View from the Center of the Universe, coauthored with his wife Nancy Abrams. After the lecture, he was presented with a commemorative medallion.

Also in July, Primack spoke at the Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop, gave a public lecture with Abrams at St. John's College in Santa Fe, and gave the keynote lecture with Abrams at the triennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Time at the Asilomar conference center in Pacific Grove.

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