Centennial Lecture Series

Dr. Robert Greenler is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he has been a faculty member since 1962. He has been instrumental in the development of the Laboratory for Surface Studies at Milwaukee, an internationally recognized interdisciplinary laboratory that has been the focus for much of his research effort.

He is the organizer of "The Science Bag," a series of public science programs in Milwaukee that has had over 160,000 attendees, and has produced of a series of 30 videotapes that are sold over the country for classroom use. Another area of his interest is the study of optical effects of the sky. He has authored two books: Rainbows, Halos, and Glories, and Chasing the Rainbow: Recurrences in the Life of a Scientist.

Professor Greenler served as the President of the Optical Society of America in 1987. In 1988 he received the Millikan Lecture Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers for the "creative teaching of Physics" and in 1993, he was awarded the first Esther Hoffman Beller Award by the Optical Society of America for "...extraordinary leadership in advancing the public appreciation and understanding of science...".