ChemPhysSoc Lectures 1997-98

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.

Autumn 1997

Tues 14 Oct

Dr John Emsley, Imperial College

"OK write it - but no chemical words!"

Tue 21 Oct

Prof. M. Chisholm FRS (University of Indiana)

"Multiple bonds between metal atoms in ordered assemblies: One-dimensional polymers and liquid crystals"

(Gillespie Lecture)

Tues 28 Oct

Prof Salvador Moncada FRCP FRS, Cruciform Project

"Discovery of the L-arginine:NO pathway"

Wed 4 Nov

Prof John Callomon, UCL

"A Chemical Travelogue"

Tues 11 Nov

Prof Charles Rees, Imperial College

"New Twists and Turns in Heterocyclic Chemistry"

Tues 18 Nov

Dr Alfred Bader

"Richard Anschütz, Archibald Scott Cooper & Josef Loschmidt: a detective at work"

Tues 25 Nov

Dr Henry Rzepa, Imperial College

"The Evolution of Human Intelligence: Is the Chemical Internet 1 step forward or 2 backward?"

Tues 2 Dec

Prof The Lord Lewis of Newnham KT FRS

"Inorganic Chemistry since 1950"
RSC Thomas Graham Lecture

Spring 1998

Tues 13 Jan

Dr David Sheel, Pilkington Glass

"Glass Manufacture and Speciality Glass"

Tues 20 Jan

Prof David Phillips, Imperial College

"Chemistry in the Atmosphere"

Tues 27 Jan

Dr Gary Walter, Zeneca Agrochemicals

"Robots in Synthesis"

Tues 3 Feb

Dr Charles Sell, ICI Quest

"Title to be announced"

Tues 10 Feb

Dr Peter Gibb, ICI

"Title to be announced"

Tues 17 Feb

Dr Andy Holmes, University of Cambridge

"Seeing the Light with Polymers"

Tues 24 Feb

Ms A Janusek, Quest International

"The Chemistry of Beauty and the Beauty of Chemistry"
RSC Chiltern and Middlesex Lecture

Tues 10 Mar

Prof William B Motherwell FRS, UCL

"Some New Reactions for Organic Chemistry"
Presidential Address