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Smith Lecture,
May 8, 2003
Prof. Riccardo Giacconi,
2002 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Associated Universities, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
The study of celestial X-rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for the discovery of many new aspects of the Universe. Since its beginnings with the first detection of X rays from the sun in 1948, X-ray astronomy now probes the entire Universe, from the birth and death of stars in our own Galaxy to super-massive black holes in the cores of other galaxies, and even out to the most remote and largest structures in the Universe. The X-ray Universe, along with the technological developments required to survey it, will be discussed by this year's Alpheus Smith Lecturer.
8:00 p.m., Hitchcock Hall, Room 131
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