Past Faculty Research Lecturers


UCLA Royce Hall

 
 
1925
Loye H. Miller
"The Fossil Birds of California"
 

1926
Shepherd I. Franz
"How the Brain Works"

1927
Charles Grove Haines
"A Government of Laws or a Government of Men"

1928
Samuel J. Barnett
"Evidence of the Nature of the Elementary Magnet"

1929
Earle R. Hedrick
"Difficulties in Logic in Mathematics"

1930
Bennet M. Allen
"Glands and Growth"

1931
John C. Parrish
"The Emergence of the Idea of Manifest Destiny"

1932
William J. Miller
"Magmatic Intrusion, or the Rise of Molten Rock into the Earth's Crust"

1933
Malbone W. Graham
"In Quest of a Law of Recognition"

1934
Olenus L. Sponsler
"Living Matter: A Molecular Approach"

1935
Lily Bess Campbell
"History and Tragedy in the Mirror for Magistrates"

1936
Vern Oliver Knudsen
"Modern Acoustics and Culture"

1937
John Elof Boodin
"Man in His World"

1938
Harald U. Sverdrup
"Physics and Geophysics"

1939
Knight Dunlap
"Research in Methods of Adjustment"

1940
Howard S. Fawcett
"Adventures in the Plant Disease World"

1941
Arnold Schoenberg
"The Composition with Twelve Tones"

1942
Carl Epling
"The Living Mosaic"

1943
Tracy Y. Thomas
"The Concept of Invariance in Mathematics"

1944
William H. Chandler
"Trees in Two Climates"

1945
Jakob A.B. Bjerknes
"Waves and Vortices in the Atmosphere"

1946
Hans Reichenbach
"Philosophy and Physics"

1947
William G. Young
"Organic Reaction Mechanism with Allylic Compounds"

1948
James Gilluly
"Crystal Deformation"

1949
Paul Friedlander
"Research in Classics"

1950
Max Shaw Dunn
"The Protein Problem"

1951
Carl Eckart
"Why Study Ocean Currents?"

1952
Manuel Pedro Gonzalez
"Jose Marti: An Epic Chronicler of the U.S. in the Eighties"

1953
Ralph L. Beals
"The Village in an Industrial World"

1954
Carl L. Hubbs
"Crossing the Species Line"

1955
Saul Winstein

1956
Edward Niles Hooker
"Dryden and the Atoms of Epicurus"

1957
Horace Winchell Magoun
"The Platonic Soul and the Contemporary Brain"

1958
Harry Hoijer
"The Science of Language"

1960
Donald B. Lindsley
"Brain Development and Behavior"

1961
Earl L. Griggs
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge"

1962
Theodore H. Bullock
"How Can Nerve Cells Handle Information"

1963
Louis Byrne Slichter
"Gravity Observations and the Dynamics of the Earth"

1964
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum
"Islam: The Experience of the Holy and the Concept of Man"

1965
Harold K. Ticho
"The New New 'Elementary' Particles"

1966
Wolf Leslau
"The Land of Prester John"

1967
Charles Henry Sawyer
"Hormones and the Brain"

1968
William Matthews
"The Egyptians in Scotland"

1969
C.D. O'Malley
"Don Carlos of Spain: A Medical Portrait"

1970
Donald J. Cram
"Molecular Intrigues and Chemical Espionage"

1971
Gerhart B. Ladner
"The Middle Ages in Austrian Tradition: Problems of an Imperial and Paternalistic Ideology"

1972
Leon Knopoff
"The Continents Drift and the Earth Quakes"

1973
Lynn White Jr.
"Engineering in Medieval Intellectual Life"

1974
Emil L. Smith
"Molecular Evolution"

1975
Bernard Brodie
"How Much is Enough? Guns vs. Butter Revisited"

1976
Isadore Rudnick
"The Unusual Properties of Superfluid Helium: With Demonstrations"

1977
Robert Martin Adams
"What Was Modernism?"

1978
William N. Valentine, M.D.
"The Metabolically Underprivileged Human Red Blood Cell"

1979
John S. Galbraith
"Anti-Imperialism in an Imperial Era: A Blunt Assessment of Victorian Britain"

1980
Julian S. Schwinger
"Relativity and the Common Understanding"

1981
Robert S. Stevenson
"Caleronian Opera"

1982
Paul D. Boyer
"How Living Cells Use Energy"

1983
David Mellinkoff
"The Myth of Precision and the Law Dictionary"

1984
J. William Schopf
"The Earliest History of Life: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"

1985
Henrik Birnbaum
"Lord Novgorod the Great: Sociopolitical Experiment and Cultural Achievement"

1986
Arnold Bernard Scheibel, M.D.
"As the Brain Grows Up and Grows Old"

1986 (Fall)
Eugen Weber
"French Revolutions"

1987 (Spring)
Ralph H. Turner
"The Paradox of Social Order"

1988 (Spring)
W. G. Ernst
"The Circumpacific Ring of Fire -- Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics"

1988 (Fall)
Peter Ladefoged
"The Two Sides of Phonetics"

1989 (Spring)
David Eisenberg
"Protein Structure and Design"

1989 (Fall)
Joyce Appleby
"Clio in the Service of Patria: Writing the History of One's Own Country"

1990
(Spring)
Raymond L. Orbach
"This Not-so-crazy World: Order in Randomness"

1991
(Winter)
Philippa F. Foot
"Nietzsche's Immoralism"

1991 (Spring)
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
"On the Conversion of Solar to Electric Energy by the Other  Photosynthetic System in Nature; Bacteriorhodopsin"

1992 (Winter)
William Oldendorf, M.D.
"Changing Images of Mind and Brain"

1992 (Spring)
Harold H. Kelley
"The Logic of Interpersonal Relations"

1993 (Winter)
Richard P. Turco
"Ozone and Life: An Impending Crisis"

1993 (Spring)
Kenneth L. Karst
"Faiths, Flags and Family Values: The Constitution of the Theater State"

1993 (Fall)
Charles F. Kennel
"The Plasma Physics of the Aurora Borealis"

1994 (Spring)
Gary B. Nash
"The Hidden History of Mestizo America"

1994 (Fall)
Leonard Kleinrock
"The Internet and Beyond"

1995 (Spring)
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
"Indo-European Migrations: A Linguistic Reconstruction of Pre-History"

1995 (Fall)
M. Frederick Hawthorne
"From Mummies to Rockets and on to Cancer Therapy"

1996 (Spring)
Jared Diamond
"Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents For the Last 13,000 Years?"

1996 (Fall)
Judea Pearl
"The Art and Science of Cause and Effect"

1997 (Spring)
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
"Three Decades on the Track of Some Rare Genetic Diseases"

1997 (Fall)
Margaret Galland Kivelson
"From Outer Space to the Ocean Floor: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System"

1998 (Spring)
Michael J.B. Allen
"Life as a Dean Platonist"

1998 (Fall)
Kendall N. Houk
"Seeing Molecules React: Computational Explorations from Cosmochemistry to Chemical Biology"

1999 (Spring)
Giorgio Buccellati
"The Discovery of Ancient Urkesh and the Question of Meaning in Archaelogy"

1999 (Fall)
Robert B. Goldberg
"Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: Super Plants for the 21st Century"

2000 (Spring)
Peter H. Lee
"Higher Narratives in Korea"

2000 (Fall)
Harvey R. Herschman
"Finding New Genes, Determining Their Functions, and Watching Their Expression in Living Individuals"

2001 (Spring)
Carole Pateman
“The Equivalent of the Right to Land, Life, and Liberty?: Democracy and the Idea of a Basic Income”

2001 (Fall)
Michael Phelps
"Imaging the Living Biology of our Bodies in Health and Disease"

2002 (Spring)
Susan McClary

"Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjectivities, and Music"

2003 (Winter)
S. Lawrence Zipursky

"Building the Brain: How Nerve Connections Are Formed During Development"

2003 (Spring)
Christopher B. Donnan
"Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru"

2003 (Fall)
Dr. Andrea M. Ghez
"Unveiling a Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way"

2004 (Spring)
Dr. Margaret C. Jacob
"Science and the Origins of Western Cosmopolitanism"

2004 (Fall)
Dr. H. Ronald Kaback
"The Passion of the Permease: From Membrane to Molecule to a Mechanism of Active Transport"

2005
(Spring)
Dr. Carroll B. Johnson

"Didi Hamid Benengeli, Don Quijote and the Metafictional Conventions of Chivalric Romance"

2005 (Fall)
Eli Yablonovitch
"The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics and Sociology"

2006 (Spring)
Karen Orren
" A Single French Fry': The Supreme Court and the Depletion of Constitutional Law"

2006 (Fall)
Ernest Wright
" Symporters: Marvelous Molecular Machines"


 

2007 (Spring)
Stephen Yeazell
"What's Not Wrong with the Justice System- And What is"

2007 (Fall)
Owen Witte

"A Delicate Balance: Stem Cells, Cancer & the Immune Response"

2008 (Spring)
Thom Mayne