In honor of this being the second lecture in the 50th anniversary, I'm going to show a two-minute clip, which you'll see is entirely appropriate, but also great fun, from Feynman's second messenger lecture. So what I'm going to do now, and it's with great trepidation as to whether or not this is going to work- I'm going to set it up. So everything from My Friend Richard Feynman, to My Battle with Steven Hawking. Popular lectures, the theoretical minimum, and all the rest. 281,000 results for videos of Leonard Susskind- sorry, Leonardo Susskind, on everything. I searched for Leonard Susskind in Google Videos. And he has a large number of online lectures. There's also- I think that might be a galaxy. On this- I have to move this over.įor this poster, I took a screen grab in the upper left from his popular book on black holes and information theory because he told me at lunch today, the audience would be disappointed not to see at least one picture of an actual black hole. He's been on Nova shows discussing various aspects of physics. He has authored a number of popular votes on subjects from cosmology, to black holes, to quantum mechanics. His expository gifts have carried over to the popular realm. Sakurai's prized citation for pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking. National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Has four decades of over 200 cutting-edge research articles, still growing rapidly, he- oh. He's one of the founders of string theory- actually the one who introduced the notion that particles could be described by excitation states of a relativistic string. Since then, he's been a professor at Stanford, including most recently since 2009, the director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He was on the faculty of Yeshiva University until 1979. Came to Cornell in 1962, both to escape taking over his father's plumbing business in the South Bronx and also to receive a PhD in theoretical physics in 1965. Now, tonight's speaker, Lenny Susskind, was born in the South Bronx of New York City in 1940. After the lecture on Monday, I was thrilled to- somebody who was an undergraduate visiting his children here told me the same thing. I was told to ask, out of curiosity, how many of you were here for Feynman's lectures 50 years ago? So I count about 10 or 15 people. Sir Martin Rees, Steven Weinberg, Nima Arkani-Hamed. Richard Feynman 50 years ago, 1964, up to including recent messenger lectures in the past decade. Robert Oppenheimer in 1945- well, you know. Sir Arthur Eddington 1933 remembered the solar eclipse in 1919. There was a period when anyone who was anyone in the pantheon of physics was a messenger lecturer here, going back to RA Millikan in 1925 remembered the oil drop. The terms of the original gift established- pay attention- a fund to provide a course of lectures on the evolution of civilization for the special purpose of raising a moral standard of our political, business, and social life. Hiram Messenger, a Cornell graduate of 1880 and a longtime teacher of mathematics. LEONARD SUSSKIND: Paul, can I ask you to call me by my actual given name? Leonardo. So Cornell's messenger lecture was established in 1924. I'm Paul Ginsparg, I'm a professor of physics and information science here at Cornell.Īnd I'll say a few words about this particular lecture series and then I'll give a short introduction to Lenny. Based on the number of people who stepped up to us and introduced themselves to Lenny, and how thrilled they are to meet him in person, ignoring me, I think I need an introduction more than he does. PAUL GINSPARG: It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second of Lenny Susskind's free messenger lectures.
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