Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences emeritus at Cornell University and winner of the 1997 Crafoord Prize in Astrophysics, will deliver a physics colloquium on "Astrophysics in the 1950s and Advice to Young Players" on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:30 in Schwartz Auditorium , Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell.

Salpeter and British physicist Fred Hoyle will be awarded the $500,000 Crafoord Prize at a ceremony in Sweden later this month. The prize citation reads: "for their pioneering contributions to the study of nuclear processes in stars and stellar evolution."

Salpeter joined the Cornell faculty in 1949 and retired this year. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago (1969) and Case Western Reserve University (1970), as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1973).