Bunyan Lectures
Each year the Stanford Astronomy Program organizes
the Bunyan Lecture, named for James T. Bunyan, a member of the Hoover Institution whose will specified that his estate endow lectures that "inquire into man's changing vision of the cosmos and of human destiny as revealed in the latest discoveries in the fields of astronomy and space exploration."
- 26th Bunyan Lecture (2007-8): Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University
- Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet
- Time and Place: 2008 Feb 6, 7:30pm, Hewlett Teaching Center 201
- 25th Bunyan Lecture (2006-7): Michael Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech
- Pluto, Eris and the Dwarf Planets of the Solar System
- 24th Bunyan Lecture (2005-6): David Spergel, Princeton University
- Taking the Baby Picture of the Universe
- 23rd Bunyan Lecture (2003): Christopher Chyba, Director of the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute
- The 21st Century Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- 22nd Bunyan Lecture (2002): Kim Stanley Robinson, Nebula and Hugo award winning science fiction author
- Mars as a Tool of Human Thought
- 21st Bunyan Lecture (2001): Loren Acton, University of Montana
- The Magnetic Personality of the Universe
- 20th Bunyan Lecture (2000): Charles Townes, UC Berkeley
- Logic and Uncertainty in Science and Religion
- 19th Bunyan Lecture (1999): Paul Davies, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London; now Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University
- The Origins of Life
- 18th Bunyan Lecture (1998): Frank Drake, SETI Institute
- The Search for Extragalactic Intelligent Life
- 17th Bunyan Lecture (1997): Geoff Marcy, San Francisco State University
- First Reconnaissance of Planets Orbiting Other Stars
- 16th Bunyan Lecture (1996): Ron Bracewell, Stanford University
- The Destiny of Man
- 15th Bunyan Lecture (1995): Robert Williams, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute
- The Universe as Seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
- 14th Bunyan Lecture (1994): Eugene Shoemaker, US Geological Survey, Arizona
- Cosmic Bullets, Craters and Catastrophe
- 13th Bunyan Lecture (1993): Carl Sagan, Cornell University
- Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
- 12th Bunyan Lecture (1992): Sandra Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz
- The Giant Keck Telescope
- 11th Bunyan Lecture (1991): Fang Li Zhi, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton
- Science, Cosmology, and Democracy in China
- 10th Bunyan Lecture (1989): Edwin Salpeter, Cornell University
- Stars Older than the Universe?
- 9th Bunyan Lecture (1988): Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
- Death of a Star: Supernova of a Lifetime
- 8th Bunyan Lecture (1987): P.J.E. Peebles, Princeton University
- The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
- 7th Bunyan Lecture (1986): Joseph Veverka, Cornell University
- Halley's Comet
- 6th Bunyan Lecture (1985): Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Crisis vs Aesthetics in Copernican Revolution
- 5th Bunyan Lecture (1984): Martin Rees, Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy
- 4th Bunyan Lecture (1982): Kip Thorne, Caltech
- Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes, and Tunnels through Hyperspace
- 3rd Bunyan Lecture (1981): Edward Stone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- The Voyager Encounters with Saturn
- 2nd Bunyan Lecture (1980): Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Rude Law of the Frontier: Recent Results
- 1st Bunyan Lecture (1979): Dennis Sciama, Oxford University
- The Origin of the Universe
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