Presenters

This year's Nobel Conference main lectures were taped for broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television's "Minnesota Channel." Edited programs of individual lectures will be broadcast at least three times each in the coming months. The first broadcasts will be at 8 p.m. Oct. 15, Oct. 22, and Oct. 29 on TPT 17. A promotional piece for the programs, featuring an interview with Nobel Conference Director Tim Robinson, will air following TPT's "Almanac" show at 7:58 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 14.

• Wolfgang Ketterle
  John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
  2001 Nobel laureate in physics
• George F. R. Ellis
  Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems
  University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
• Ira Flatow
  Science correspondent, National Public Radio
  Stamford, Connecticut
• Wendy Freedman
  The Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair and Director
  Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, California
• Sylvester James Gates Jr.
  John S. Toll Professor of Physics
  Department of Physics
  University of Maryland, College Park
• Thomas Levenson
  Associate Professor of Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  and Author and documentary film maker, Watertown, Massachusetts
• Kip S. Thorne
  Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, California