ChemPhysSoc Lectures

Session 1999-2000


Meetings are held on Tuesdays at 17.00 in the Ramsay Lecture Theatre (unless where stated), Christopher Ingold Laboratories, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ. The lectures are preceded by tea and doughnuts at 16.30, and are followed by a dinner in the Nyholm Room. Sign on for the dinner with the Beadle at least 24 hours before the meeting.


Tuesday's lectures

Year 1999

Tuesday 5th October

(in Chemistry Lecture Theatre)

"Son et Lumière"

Dr John Salthouse

Chemistry, University of Manchester

Tuesday 12th October

"Protein Folds and Functions"

Prof. Janet Thornton

Biochemistry, University College London

Tuesday 19th October

"Transition Metals - Matters of Life and Death"

Dr Peter Thornton

Formerly Chemistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College

Tuesday 26th October

"Where is Analytical Chemistry going?"

Dr Richard Worswick

Director of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist

(RSC Thomas Graham Lecture)

Tuesday 2nd November

" Cavities and Computers"

Dr. Dewi W. Lewis

Chemistry, University College London

Thursday 11th November

"Science against Crime"

Dr Graham Divall

Forensic Science Service, London

Tuesday 16th November

"Chemistry: the great ideas"

Prof. Peter Atkins

Chemistry, University of Oxford

Tuesday 23rd November

"Mars, the Moon and Genetically Modified Foods"

Mr Charles Arthur

Technology Editor, The Independent

Tuesday 30th November

"Newton's Science & Religion"

Dr Rob Iliffe

Centre for History of Science, Imperial College

Tuesday 7th December

Student Quiz

Thursday 16th Decenber

Christmas Party

Year 2000

Tuesday 18th January

"Natural Products: From Folk Medicine to Drugs"

Prof. Keith Jones

Chemistry, Kingston University

Tuesday 25th January

What is matter made of? Quarks, W-Bosons and all that.

Prof. Llewellyn-Smith FRS

Provost, University College London

Tuesday 1st Febuary

(in Chemistry Lecture Theatre)

"The Chemistry of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles"

Dr Cyril Isenberg

Physical Sciences, University of Kent

( Jointly held with the RSC Local Younger Chemists )

Tuesday 8th Febuary

"Sex and the Single Electron" (X-rated)

Dr Nick Green

Chemistry, King's College London

Tuesday 15th Febuary

"Recent Advances in Catalytic Cascade Reactions"

Prof. Ron Grigg

Chemistry, Leeds University

( Jointly held with the RSC Chiltern and Middlesex Section )

Tuesday 22nd Febuary

"Once a Chemist, Always a Chemist"

Dr Brian Iddon MP

House of Commons

Tuesday 29th Febuary

"Wine Making and Tasting as Scientific Experiments"

Dr Edgar Anderson

Chemistry, University College London

( 5 pounds per head for tasting, 2 pounds for ChemPhysSoc members )

Tuesday 7th March

"Magnetism in time and space"

Prof. G David Price

Geological Sciences, University College London

Tuesday 14th March

"We can compute everything - but what can we predict?"

Presidential Lecture - Dr Sally Price

Chemistry, University College London