R.M. PETRIE PRIZE LECTURE

 

The Petrie Lecture is an invited discourse by an outstanding astrophysicist which is held at Annual Meetings of the Society in alternate years, in memory of the significant contributions to astrophysical research by the late Robert M. Petrie. The Petrie Lecture originated under the auspices of the Canadian Committee for the IAU, prior to the existence of the Society, and was revived by the Society in 1977 as a regular event. Nominations for the Petrie Lecture can be made by submitting the name of a nominee to the Awards committee at any time. Nominations for the 2009 Lecturer should be received by January 15, 2009.

Petrie Lecturers to date have been:

1970	A. G. W. Cameron	The Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy
1971	Jesse L. Greenstein	Pre-White Dwarf Evolution
1971	C. S. Beals	Forms of Impact Craters Related to the Thermal History of the Lunar Surface
1977	J. Beverly Oke	Seyfert Galaxies and Quasars
1979	Geoffrey Burbidge	The Redshift Problem
1981	Hubert Reeves	La Physique des Premiers Temps de l'Univers
1983	M. J. Plavec	Strongly Interacting Binary Stars
1985	Charles Townes	The Galactic Centre
1987	Henry Matthews	C3H2 - A New Probe of the Interstellar Medium
1989	P. J. E. Peebles	Tracing the Orbits of Galaxies back in Time
1991	P. B. Stetson	Progress in CCD Photometry
1993	Maarten Schmidt	From Galactic Structure to Quasars
1995	George Herbig	IC 349 - Barbard’s Merope Nebula
1997	Alex Filippenko	Supernovae and their Cosmological Implications
1999	Sidney van den Bergh	The Local Group of Galaxies
2001	James Gunn	The Sloan Digital Survey
2003	Sir Martin Rees	How Did the Cosmic Dark Age End?
2005	Reinhard Genzel	Massive Black Holes in Galaxies
2007	Ewine van Dishoeck	Spitzer observations of star- and planet-forming regions from ice cold to steaming hot

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