Notable Visitors to the University of Mary Washington

Over the years, SPS, through the auspices of the physics department, has hosted speakers of international renown. Among these are several nobel laureates:

Dr. Eugene P. Wigner (Princeton) - shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles; '75, '79, '83, '86.

Dr. Rudolph Peierls (Oxford) - pioneer in quantum mechanics and theoretical nuclear physics; '82.

Dr. Leon M. Lederman (Fermi Lab) - shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the neutrino beam method and demonstration of the doublet structure of leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino; '90.

Dr. Yuval Ne'eman (Univ. of Tel Aviv and Univ. of Texas) - transformative contributions to elementary particle theory; '98.

Dr. Norman F. Ramsey (Harvard) - shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks; '95, '02.

Dr. William D. Phillips (NIST) - shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light; '01, '02, '06.