Past Lectures
You missed the past Einstein Lectures? You can find information about the guests, the presenters in pictures and words on these pages.
Einstein Lectures 2022
Didier Queloz
Are we alone in the universe? Is there life on other planets? In 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva discovered the first planet outside our solar system: “51 Pegasi b”. In 2019, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their groundbreaking discovery of the first ever exoplanet. Today Didier Queloz is Professor at ETH Zurich and the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.
Einstein Lectures 2021
Philip Pettit
What makes mankind human? Probably quite simply: that they are able to ask themself this question. But how did it come that a human became such a being endowed with spirit? Philip Pettit tries as a philosopher to give an answer to this question, with the means of a thought experiment - which Einstein also loved very much.
Einstein Lectures 2019
Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
Mathematician and computer scientist at the same time, Professor Shafi Goldwasser is a pioneer of modern cryptography. For her groundbreaking works she was awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the ”Nobel Prize of Computer Science“, in 2012 (together with Silvio Micali). Shafi Goldwasser is Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California in Berkeley, USA.
Einstein Lectures 2018
Prof. em. Barry Barish
Barry Barish und seinem Team ist gelungen, was selbst Albert Einstein für unmöglich hielt: Sie haben Gravitationswellen direkt nachgewiesen. Diese Schwingungen des leeren Raumes selbst entstehen beispielweise, wenn sich zwei Schwarze Löcher so nahe kommen, dass sie miteinander verschmelzen. Der 82-jährige Barry Barish vom California Institute of Technology (Caltech) war jahrelang wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Interferometer Gravitationswellen-Observatoriums (LIGO), wo es im Jahr 2015 mit einem extrem sensitiven Detektor erstmals gelang, Gravitationswellen direkt nachzuweisen. 2017 wurde ihm und seinen Kollegen Kip Thorne und Rainer Weiss dafür der Nobelpreis für Physik verliehen.