Archives of Commemorative Lectures

A lecture transcript file (pdf) contains the lecture in Japanese, English, and the language in which the lecture was given.

39th (2024): A Ramble Through Geologic Time

Paul F. Hoffman/ Geologist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
35th (2019): Understanding the Universe and the Things That Live in It Through Astronomical Surveys

James Gunn/ Astrophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script

Movie
31st (2015): Extrasolar Planets: An Old Dream of Humanity—a Modern Reality of Astrophysics

Michel Mayor/ Astrophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script

Movie
27th (2011): 50 Years of Continuous Revolution in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev/ Astrophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script

Movie
23rd (2007): Falling in Love with Waves

Hiroo Kanamori/ Geophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script
19th (2003): Curiosity as a Career

Eugene Newman Parker/ Physicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script
15th (1999): The Luck of Walter Munk

Walter H. Munk/ Oceanographer

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script
11th (1995): Astrophysics and I—Motivations, Methods, and the Outline of My Research—

Chushiro Hayashi/ Astrophysicist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script
7th (1991): A Scientist by Choice

Edward Norton Lorenz/ Meteorologist

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script
3rd (1987): Horizons

Jan Hendrik Oort/ Astronomer

Basic Sciences

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Script