Scientist-lecturer

The scientific biography of Chebotin is short but monumental. His scientific ideas stUl influence the work on the solid electrolytes such that his articles are cited, and monographs are used by the senior scientists, lecturers, and tutors for the preparation of the young scientific staff. 

Received little formal education developed a strong relationship with Sir Humphrey Davy after attending his lectures established a reputation as the outstanding scientist lecturer of his time. 

Another event that stands out in my memory was the Nobel Lecture I gave before the Swedish Academy of Sciences, chaired by Professor Kerstin Fredga, its President and the leading Swedish space scientist. She is the daughter of the late Arne Fredga, a chemistry professor and long-time member of the Nobel Committee and the Nobel Fonndation. I had known him and visited him in Uppsala years before thus it was even more of a personal pleasure to meet his daughter. The only formal... 

An excellent, accessible overview of what surface scientists do, the problems they address and how they link to technological needs is in a published lecture by a chemist, Somorjai (1998). He concisely sets out the function of numerous advanced instruments and techniques used by the surface scientist, all combined with UHV (LEED was merely the first), and exemplifies the kinds of physical chemical issues addressed - to pick just one example, the interactions of co-adsorbed species on a surface. He also introduces the concept of surface materials , ones in which the external or internal surfaces are the key to function. In this sense, a surface material is rather like a nanostructured material in the one case the material consists predominantly of surfaces, in the other case, of interfaces. 

I came back in 1959 to deliver a course of crystallography lectures at the CAB, and by that time the metal physics was well established. It has continued to flourish, and broaden many papers of note were published, and a succession of international materials symposia have been held there. The CAB director, Balseiro, died young, of cancer, and the latest of a succession of directors is Jose Abriata, an Argentinian materials scientist. Most observers, I believe, both in South America and beyond, would concur that the Bariloche centre is the most distinguished physics laboratory in South America. Materials science plays an important part there, and credit for that belongs to Jorge Sabato. 

France lost many of its teachers during the first years of the Revolution. One of the solutions to the shortage of teachers was the establishment of the Ecole Normale in Paris. Fourier, as a teacher and an active member of the Popular Society in Auxerre, was invited to attend in 1795. His attendance at the shortlived Ecole gave him the opportunity to meet and study with the brightest French scientists. Fourier s own talent gained him a position as assistant to the lecturers at the Ecole Normale. 

The three men whose work later in the nineteenth century was crucial in bringing clarity to this principle were two Germans, the physician Julius Robert Mayer and the great polymath Hermann von Helmholtz, and the British amateur scientist James Joule. In a lecture delivered by Helmholtz on February 7, 1854, in Konigsberg on The Interaction of Natural Forces, ... 

In a 1959 lecture at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Lise Meitner reflected that Life need not be easy, provided that it is not empty. Life was not easy for any Jewish woman scientist in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, and Meitner certainly had her own experience in mind when she made this statement. 

Oersted was named a fellow of several learned societies, presented with medals, and awarded cash prizes. At home, Oersted became Denmark s leading citizen. He continued his research, but as an international figure he traveled extensively, became fluent in many languages, and met with the leading scientists of the time. He gave frequent public lectures and became a director of the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Copenhagen. He also had a lifelong interest in literature and, in 1829, he founded a literary journal to which he frequently contributed articles about sci-... 

Dalton was a prolific scientist who made contributions to biology and physics as well as chemistry. At a college in Manchester. England, he did research and spent as many as 20 hours a week lecturing in mathematics and the physical sciences. Dalton never married he said once. "My head is too full of triangles, chemical properties, and electrical experiments to think much of marriage."... 

The Encyclopedia provides valuable information for readers with different expectations and backgrounds (from scientists, students and lecturers to informed lay-people) and fills the gap between pharmacology textbooks and specialized reviews. 

In making these observations, we may only be providing an echo of C. P. Snow s The Two Cultures, based on his Rede lecture for Cambridge University [2]. Snow s main point was that the lack of communication between the sciences and the humanities was a regrettable situation rife with negative consequences. The Two Cultures was meant to be both an admonition to thinkers and an invitation to have scientists and humanists work harder at understanding each other. 

The Symposium was further highlighted by an initiative of IPPA to honour Prof Walter Pilnik for all his activities in the past in the interest of pectin research and of the association of pectin producing industries. This was done by awarding a talented, junior scientist in the field to present the so-called Walter Pilnik Lecture. This award, which will be given every second year, was given to Dr Maureen McCann. 

Research and education go hand in hand in chemistry and chemical engineering. While it is possible to teach students about the chemistry of the past by lectures alone, participation in research gives them a chance to learn what science really is, and to engage their creative and critical imaginations. In this way, the support of research directly contributes to the education of chemical scientists. It can also provide those students who want to go into other fields—law, business, government—with a real understanding of the basic and applied work in chemistry and chemical engineering. 

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