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Date: April 8, 1996
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Annual Physics Lecture Focuses on `Views From a Garden of Worldly Delights'

Princeton, N.J. -- Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the 22nd Donald Ross Hamilton Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 19, at 8:00 p.m. in Jadwin A-10.

The talk, entitled ``Views From a Garden of Worldly Delights,'' will describe some advances in science from the point of view of historical development. Kleppner will explain, for instance, how contemporary research on arcana such as quantum chaos is connected to the work of the Renaissance scientist Johannes Kepler. The talk is intended to provide perspective on contemporary science.

Kleppner, who joined the MIT physics department in 1966, now serves as associate director of the university's Research Laboratory of Electronics. He received bachelors degrees from Williams College in 1953 and from Cambridge University in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960. Kleppner's research interests are in experimental atomic physics, high precision measurements and quantum optics.

He is the recipient of the Davisson-Germer Prize and the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society and the William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Chair of the American Physical Society's Physics Planning Committee (the organization's committee on science policy), he also participated in the National Research Council's Physics Survey Committee. Kleppner is a regular contributor of essays to Physics Today .

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