Bullitt Lecture

Diagram from the Bullitt collection's copy of Galileo's

The Physics & Astronomy Department's Bullitt Lecture is a free lecture aimed at the general public, and since 2001 has presented a distinguished astrophysicist to a Louisville audience in the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. The Lecture is endowed through a grant from the family of William Marshall Bullitt, the Solicitor General of the United States under President William Howard Taft. The University of Louisville library also houses the William Marshall Bullitt collection of rare Mathematics and Astronomy books which includes works by Copernicus, Descartes, Einstein, Galileo, Gauss, Kepler and Newton. 

Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2024 - Browsing in the Astronomer's Library

Oct 10, 2024 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2023 - From lasers and styrofoam to diamond rain, and other improbable stories

Oct 12, 2023 from 07:00 PM to 08:05 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture 2022 - Listening to the Dark Universe

Oct 20, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium - Louisville, KY ,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2021 - Where is Everybody? The Search for Life in our Solar System and Beyond

Oct 07, 2021 from 08:00 PM to 09:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2020 - 17th to 21st Century Quest to Find Saturn’s Rotation Period: As Elusive as the Day is Long!

Oct 08, 2020 from 08:00 PM to 09:00 PM— YouTube - https://youtu.be/qVZvy6A6xcc,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2019 - Probing The Distant Universe With Hubble Space Telescope

Oct 31, 2019 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2018 - Mysteries of the Dark Universe

Oct 04, 2018 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture 2017 - JunoCam: Pictures of Jupiter from a new Perspective

Oct 26, 2017 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2016 - The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017

Oct 13, 2017 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2015 - Exploring the Solar System's Third Zone

Oct 08, 2015 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2014 - Beyond Hubble: From Exoplanets to First Stars with the James Webb Space Telescope

Oct 16, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2013 - Blurring the Boundaries Among Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy: The Moseley and Bohr Centenaries

Nov 21, 2013 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2012 - Measuring the Size and Age of the Universe

Oct 11, 2012 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2011 - Cassini-Huygens explores the Saturn System: Recent Discoveries and Science Highlights

Nov 03, 2011 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2010 - The History of the Telescope and its Relation to Culture

Oct 14, 2010 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2009 - 40 Years: Lunar Exploration

from Oct 08, 2009 07:00 PM to Nov 12, 2021 01:10 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2008 - The Star Cities of the Milky Way

Oct 29, 2008 07:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2007 - Creating the Hubble Space Telescope

Oct 25, 2007 from 07:30 PM to 08:30 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2006 - Galaxies, Stars, Planets, and Life: The Birth of the Modern Universe

Apr 20, 2006 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2005 - A Map of the Universe

Mar 24, 2005 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2003 - The Life and Death of Stars

Apr 15, 2003 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2002 - Solar Eclipses and Mysteries of the Sun

Apr 13, 2002 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy 2001 - Edwin Hubble: An Astronomer's Life

Apr 25, 2001 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM— Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium,

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