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The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC), an organisation dedicated to commemorating US physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, had its beginnings in 1968 and was established in November 1971 when it was officially incorporated in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. The JROMC organises an annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, which began in 1972. There were plans for a memorial sculpture and park, but the funds raised by the JROMC have instead been used for an ongoing annual school scholarship program that began in 1984. The JROMC has also provided science fair prizes, supported publications on Oppenheimer and the history of Los Alamos, and in 2004 sponsored centenary celebrations of Oppenheimer's birth.

Memorial Lectures
The annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lectures began in 1972, with the 1998 lecture cancelled and two held in 1999. The 42nd lecture was delivered in 2012. Each speaker receives a medallion with a side view of the bust of Oppenheimer produced in 1973 by the sculptor Una Hanbury.


 * 1972 - George F. Kennan - Environmental Predicament and its Political Implications
 * 1973 - Linus C. Pauling - Science in Modern Life
 * 1974 - I. I. Rabi - Can Mankind Survive its Powers? Why Scientists Feel Special Obligations
 * 1975 - Hans A. Bethe - Science and Scientists in Government
 * 1976 - Robert R. Wilson - Science and the Human Spirit
 * 1977 - Daniel Bell - Return of the Sacred
 * 1978 - S. Chandrasekhar - Einstein and General Relativity; Historical Perspectives
 * 1979 - Murray Gell-Mann - Quarks and Other Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter
 * 1980 - Philip Morrison - Lilliput, Brobdingnag and Los Alamos: Scale in Nature and Society
 * 1981 - Chen Ning Yang - Albert Einstein and Contemporary Physics
 * 1982 - Lewis Thomas - Things Unflattened by Science
 * 1983 - Rosalyn S. Yalow - Radioactivity in the Service of Mankind
 * 1984 - Robert Coles - Children and the Nuclear Bomb
 * 1985 - John A. Wheeler - Legacy of Niels Bohr
 * 1986 - William A. Fowler - How Old is the Observable Universe: A Biased Answer
 * 1987 - Edward C. Stone - Voyager Exploration of the Outer Solar System
 * 1988 - Gury I. Marchuk - Global Problems of Ecology and the Future
 * 1989 - Leon M. Lederman - The Quark and the Cosmos
 * 1990 - Wilson Hurley - Creativity and Chaos
 * 1991 - Jessica Tuchman Mathews - Nations and Nature: A New Look at Global Security
 * 1992 - Nicholas C. Metropolis - Random Reminiscences
 * 1993 - Sergey P. Kapitsa - Our Nonlinear World
 * 1994 - Harold W. Lewis - Risk, Mathematics and Physics
 * 1995 - David Hawkins - Science Education: Some Roots and Branches
 * 1996 - Robert Sokolowski - Los Alamos as a Project in Philosophy
 * 1997 - Edward W. Kolb - Primordial Soup of the Big Bang
 * 1998 - Edward O. Wilson - The Diversity of Life (lecture cancelled)
 * 1999 - Mario J. Molina - The Antarctic Ozone Hole
 * 1999 - James D. Watson - From the Double Helix to the Human Genome Project
 * 2000 - Samuel H. Barondes - A Hundred Years of Psychiatry
 * 2001 - William B. F. Ryan - Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History
 * 2002 - Virginia Trimble - Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe
 * 2003 - Peter H. Raven - Global Sustainability: Realistic Goal or Troublesome Illusion?
 * 2004 - Frank Wilczek - The World's Numerical Recipe
 * 2005 - Christof Koch - The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
 * 2006 - Julie Louise Gerberding - 21st Century Health Protection Challenges: Preparing for Pandemics
 * 2007 - Joel R. Primack - View from the Center of the Universe
 * 2008 - Martin J. Sherwin - Oppenheimer's Shadow: His Nuclear World and Ours
 * 2009 - Jeff Hawkins - Why Can't A Computer Be More Like a Brain
 * 2010 - Ahmed H. Zewail - Mysteries and Miracles of Time
 * 2011 - Sir Paul Maxime Nurse - Great Ideas of Biology
 * 2012 - Alex Filippenko - Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
 * 2013 - Steven Squyres - Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
 * 2014 - Harold Varmus - The History and Future of Cancer Research
 * 2015 - Alan Guth - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
 * 2016 - Marcia McNutt - Climate Intervention: A Last Resort?
 * 2017 - [original schedule was for Jennifer Doudna to speak in 2017 and Michael McFaul in 2018, but it appears plans changed.]
 * 2018 - J. Michael Kosterlitz - A Random Walk Through Physics to the Nobel Prize
 * 2019 - Kip Thorne - A Brief History of Black Holes: From Oppenheimer to LIGO
 * 2020 - Jennifer Doudna (scheduled)