Nobel Conference

Founded in 1963, the conference links a general audience with scientists with topics related to the natural and social sciences.

At the urging of several prominent Nobel laureates, the foundation granted the request and the first conference was held at the College in January 1965.

[3] Beginning with the help of an advisory committee composed of Nobel laureates such as Glenn Seaborg, Philip Showalter Hench, and Sir John Eccles, the conferences have been consistently successful in attracting the world's foremost authorities as speakers.

Past speakers have included David H. Hubel, Fritz Lipmann, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, and Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum.

It includes quotes from Nobel laureates Samuel Beckett, Pablo Neruda, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Albert Camus, Toni Morrison, Amartya Sen, Paul Samuelson, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Mother Teresa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Eli Wiesel, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rigoberta Menchú, Dag Hammarskjöld, the Dalai Lama, and Nelson Mandela.