Donald G. York's guest appearances

Donald G. York

Divinity School (audio)

Divinity School (video)

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Michael Pietrus

William Schweiker

Brian Britt

Brook Ziporyn

Amanda Woodward

Enrico Raffaelli

Peg Boyle

Lucy K. Pick

Jan Deckenbach

Regula Qureshi

Françoise Meltzer

Aaron Hollander

Aristotle Papanikolaou

Laurie L. Patton

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John Nuveen

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.Donald G. York, the Horace B. Horton Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Department  of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, has been selected to deliver the Divinity School's John Nuveen Lecture for 2014.The title of his lecture is "It is Not the Heat, It is the Humility: The Limits of Knowledge."A 1971 graduate of the University of Chicago (PhD in Astrophysics), Professor York uses a variety of orbiting and ground based telescopes to study the interstellar medium – the rarefied dust and gas in space – to learn about the origin of the elements, galaxy formation and quasars.John S. Nuveen was one of Chicago’s most influential business leaders and an active civil and cultural leader with ties to many educational institutions. At the University of Chicago, he served as chairman of the University’s Alumni Association and as a trustee of the Baptist Theological Union, who established the Nuveen lecture in 1972 and manage an endowment that supports the University of Chicago Divinity School.  Each year, a prominent member of the University's faculty is invited by the BTU and the Divinity School to deliver the lecture.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Donald G. York, the Horace B. Horton Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, has been selected to deliver the Divinity School's John Nuveen Lecture for 2014. The title of his lecture is "It is Not the Heat, It is the Humility: The Limits of Knowledge." A 1971 graduate of the University of Chicago (PhD in Astrophysics), Professor York uses a variety of orbiting and ground based telescopes to study the interstellar medium – the rarefied dust and gas in space – to learn about the origin of the elements, galaxy formation and quasars. John S. Nuveen was one of Chicago’s most influential business leaders and an active civil and cultural leader with ties to many educational institutions. At the University of Chicago, he served as chairman of the University’s Alumni Association and as a trustee of the Baptist Theological Union, who established the Nuveen lecture in 1972 and manage an endowment that supports the University of Chicago Divinity School. Each year, a prominent member of the University's faculty is invited by the BTU and the Divinity School to deliver the lecture.

2014 John Nuveen Lecture at the Divinity School, by Donald G. York