page_title: Charles P. Steinmetz Memorial Lecture
section_title: Honorees
hierarchical_section_title: Charles P. Steinmetz Memorial Lecture / Honorees
caption_attribution_description: Nott Memorial Hall at Union College in Schenctady, New York in 1997.
context_page_description: The Charles Proteus Steinmetz Memorial Lecture is a series of academic lectures initiated in 1925 in honor of celebrated mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz. To date seventy four addresses have been given on subjects ranging from peace and educational reform to nanotechnology and solar photovoltaics.
  The most recent, "The Evolution of the Smart Grid from Edison and Steinmetz", was delivered by Dr. Anjan Bose, Regents Professor at Washington State University, on October 2, 2018. It was hosted by Union College and is open to the general public.
context_section_description: The featured lecturers of the Steinmetz series have included:
  1 – Mihajlo I. Pupin (1925)
  2 – Ernst J. Berg (1926)
  3 – Robert A. Millikan (1927)
  4 – Max Mason (1928)
  5 – Dexter S. Kimball (1929)
  6 – William E. Wickenden (1930)
  7 – Karl T. Compton (1932)
  8 – C. E. Kenneth Mees (1934)
  9 – Robert E. Doherty (1935)
  10 – Gerard Swope (1936)
  11 – Harold G. Moulton (1937)
  12 – Igor I. Sikorsky (1938)
  13 – Frank B. Jewett (1939)
  14 – Frank Howard Lahey (1941)
  15 – Comfort A. Adams (1942)
  16 – Harold Willis Dodds (1943)
  17 – Stephen S. Wise (1944)
  18 – Irving Langmuir (1945)
  19 – Sanford A. Moss (1946)
  20 – Arthur H. Compton (1947)
  21 – Philip Sporn (1948)
  22 – Kirtley F. Mather (1949)
  23 – Charles E. Wilson (1950)
  24 – Hollis L. Caswell (1952)
  25 – Harold S. Osborne (1953)
  26 – Charles A. Thomas (1954)
  27 – Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam (1955)
  28 – Cornelius Packard Rhodes (1956)
  29 – Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, Ph.D. (1957)
  30 – Joseph Allen Hynek (1958)
  31 – Simon Ramo (1959)
  32 – Lillian M. Gilbreth (1960)
  33 – Claude E. Shannon (1962)
  34 – Vice-Admiral H.G. Rickover (1963)
  35 – J. Herbert Hollomon (1964)
  36 – Walker Lee Cisler (1965)
  37 – William Shockley (1966)
  38 – Edward C. Welsh (1967)
  39 – Ralph W. Sockman (1968)
  40 – J. Erik Jonsson (1969)
  41 – Lelan F. Sillin, Jr. (1970)
  42 – Patrick E. Haggerty 1971)
  43 – Harold W. Bibber, Emil J. Remscheid, &  Joseph S. Hayden (1972)
  44 – John Bardeen (1973)
  45 – Richard W. Roberts (1975)
  46 – Jay W. Forrester (1976)
  47 – Hans A. Bethe (1977)
  48 – Merril Eisenbud (1978)
  49 – Myron Tribus (1979)
  50 – Reginald H. Jones (1980)
  51 – Margaret N. Maxey (1983)
  52 – Roland W. Schmitt (1984)
  53 – Erich Bloch (1985)
  54 – Ivar Giaever (1986)
  55 – Ernest L. Boyer (1987)
  56 – Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1988)
  57 – Robert M. White (1989)
  58 – Eleanor Baum (1990)
  59 – Walter L. Robb (1991)
  60 – Andrew C. Kadak (1992)
  61 – Ray Dolby (1993)
  62 – Jerrier A. Haddad (1994)
  63 – Edward A. Parrish (1995)
  64 – William W. Hogan (1996)
  65 – Charles Concordia (2001)
  66 – Paul M. Horn (2003)
  67 – Dennis Woodford (2005)
  68 – William Wulf (2007)
  69 – Tod Machover (2008)
  70 – Lawrence A. Kazmerski (2009)
  71 – Leonard Kleinrock (2010)
  72 – Mildred Dresselhaus (2012)
  73 – Lynn Conway (2015)
  74 – Anjan Bose (2018)
caption: Union College, host of the lecture series
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