ChemPhysSoc Lectures 1996-97
Meetings are held on Tuesdays at 17.00 in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre,
Christopher Ingold Laboratories, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ. The lectures
are preceded by tea and doughnuts in the Servery at 16.30, and are followed
by a supper in the Nyholm Room. Sign on for the supper with
the Beadle at least 24 hours before the meeting.
FIRST TERM
- 1 October
Dr. L. Turin (UCL Anatomy & Developmental Biology)Is Smell
a Spectroscopic Sense?
- 8 October
Prof. M. Henchman (Brandeis University, USA) How to Design an
Invisible Missile
- 15 October
To be announced
- (RSC Young Chemists Meeting. Lecture followed by a party in Engineering
Department bar)
- 22 October
Prof. W. G. Richards (Physical & Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford
University)Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
- 29 October
To be arranged (The Royal Society of Chemistry Lecture)
- 5 November
Dr. D. O'Hare (Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University)Making
and Studying Organometallic Sandwiches
- 12 November
No Chem / Phys Soc meeting (RSC Symposium at UCL)
- 19 November
Dr. C. Sell (Quest International)Chemistry and Perfume
- 26 November
Sir John Mason FRS (Centre for Environmental Technology)The
Latest Developments in the Global Warming Debate
- *30 November
XMAS BALL
- 3 December
Dr. D. Cowan (Drug Control Centre) The Dope in Sport
- 10 December
XMAS QUIZ
SECOND TERM
- 7 January
Prof. J. K. M. Sanders FRS (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)
Biodegradable Plastics
- 14 January
Prof. D. A. Williams FRAS (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UCL) Gas,
Dust, and Star Formation in the Galaxy
- 21 January Prof. J. Mann (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Reading)The
Elusive Magic Bullet-the Search for Greater Drug Selectivity
- 28 January
Dr. J. E. Anderson (Dept. of Chemistry, UCL) "A Spectrum of
Wines"
- 4 February
Dr. M. Bonell (Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO)Where does storm
runoff come from? : The use of environmental chemical tracers in tropical
rainforest
- *11 February
Dr. M. Anstice (Eastman Dental Institute)Chemistry and Dental Materials"
(Joint Meeting with RSC Chilterns & Middlesex section: tea 5pm, lecture
5.30pm)
- 18 February
Prof. S. E. V. Phillips (Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
University of Leeds)Nature's Mystic Book; The Structure of DNA and Proteins
- 25 February
STUDENT PAPERS
- 4 March
Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS (Royal Institution and Peterhouse,
Cambridge) Designed Solid Catalysts
- 11 March
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Prof. D.C.Clary Predictions that come True
in Chemistry
- 18 March
ANNUAL DINNER & REVUE