ChemPhysSoc Lectures

Session 2000 - 2001


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 2000

Tuesday 3rd October

(in Chemistry Lecture Theatre at 6pm)

"Historical Highlights in Chemistry"

Andrew Szydlo

Highgate School

Wednesday 11th October

Garage Theatre, Bartlett Building. (check notice board for exact time)

"Paracelsus the Great"

Homunculus Theatre Company

A play by Philip Ball

Tuesday 17th October

"What Makes Science Interesting"

Michael Peel

The Financial Times

Tuesday 24th October

"Olympics for Geeks: World Records in Chemistry"

Rudiger Faust

University College London

Tuesday 31st October

Tour of the Royal Institution

CPS trip to the historic Royal Institution, home of benzene and the electric motor.

Tuesday 7th November

"Genetic Engineering: Utopian Dream or Eugenic Nightmare?"

David Latchman

University College London Institute of Child Health

Tuesday 14th November

"Ultra Clean Air, Urban Smog and a Solar Eclipse - Variety in Atmospheric Chemistry"

Mike Pilling

Leeds University

Tuesday 21st November

Graham Hutchins (Cardiff)

(title to be announced)

Tuesday 28th November

CPS Social Evening

(check notice board for details)

Tuesday 5th December

Peter Snow

BBC Television "Tomorrow's World"

Tuesday 12th Decenber

"Ethanol, Water and Magic: The Chemistry of Scotch Whisky"

James Brosnan

Scotch Whisky Research Institute

Year 2001

(To be announced)

 


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