The Loeb Lectures, which brought Hawking to Harvard, continue tonight and next Tuesday. The Physics Department brings several speakers to campus every year, each of which typically gives three to five separate talks.
After Hawking first gave a Loeb lecture at Harvard in 1984, he decided to make theoretical physics accessible to the layperson through his now famous book, A Brief History of Time.
Tickets to the speech series were distributed free of charge on September 16 at the Harvard Box Office.
All 3,345 of them were given out in under an hour--about one ticket every second.
In recent memory, no Loeb lecture has been popular enough to require that the Physics Department issue tickets, said Professor of Physics Andrew Strominger '77.
"These lectures are not ordinarily attended by the general public, although the public is always welcome," Strominger said.
Kelly V. Brogan, an MIT senior, was the first person in line to buy a ticket on the morning of September 16. She said she started waiting at 9 a.m., though the box office didn't open until noon.
"It's a phenomenal opportunity to hear a man of his stature speak," Brogan explained.
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