Don’t miss your chance to learn about some of the mysteries of the universe from a noted and pioneering theoretical particle physicist.
Dr. Helen Quinn will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Feb. 26, in Discovery Hall at The Overlake School, 20301 NE 108th St. in Redmond. The school’s 2009 Distinguished Lecturer, Quinn is a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University.
Her lecture, “Falling Apples, Bending Light Rays, Whirling Galaxies —How Resolving The Puzzles Of Gravity Has Taught Us About Our Universe And Its Laws,” will be free and open to the public.
Quinn, a native of Australia, earned her degree in physics at a time when women were fewer than two percent of physicists. She has taught at Harvard University and at Stanford, and works with school teachers in California to show students the fun and excitement of physics.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow and past president of the American Physical Society, a 2004 Order of Australia recipient and a co-recipient of the 2000 Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
To read more about Quinn and to hear some interviews with her, visit the National Academy of Sciences Web site at www.nasonline.org/site/eServer?pagename=INTERVIEWS_Helen_Quinn.
For more information, call (425) 868-1000 or visit www.overlake.org.
