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The Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series, held at UNB Fredericton, were established in 1946 to commemorate Bryan Priestman, a professor of physics at UNB who died in 1945 while attempting to save a boy from drowning in the Saint John River. | The Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series, held at UNB Fredericton, were established in 1946 to commemorate Bryan Priestman, a professor of physics at UNB who died in 1945 while attempting to save a boy from drowning in the Saint John River. | ||
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| 21-22 January 1952 | | 21-22 January 1952 | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Harlow Shapley</span> | ||
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"The Effect of Science on National Boundaries"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | "The Effect of Science on National Boundaries"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Cosmos" </span><br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Advanced Problems in Astronomy"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">4-6 March 1953</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">James A. Corry</span> | ||
| "Civil Liberties in Trying Times"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Civil Liberties in Trying Times"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Fair Hopes for Democracy"<br/> "The Demands of Democracy</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">31 March, 1-2 April 1954</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">George Wald</span> | ||
| "The Origin of Life"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The Origin of Life"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Atoms and Organisms"<br/> "Biochemical Evolution"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">2-4 March 1955</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">George Gamow</span> | ||
| "Evolution of the Stars"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Evolution of the Stars"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Origin of the Universe"<br/> "Biochemical Evolution"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">18-20 April 1956</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">J.H. Quastel</span> | ||
| "Influence of Biochemistry on Modern Life"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Influence of Biochemistry on Modern Life"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Chemical Activities of the Soil"<br/> "Action of Drugs on Enzyme Systems"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">21-23 October 1957</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Linus Pauling</span> | ||
| "Molecules in Relation to Disease"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Molecules in Relation to Disease"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Structure of Proteins"<br/> "Science in the Modern World"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">18-20 February 1959</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">John Tuzo Wilson</span> | ||
| "Results of the International Geophysical Year"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Results of the International Geophysical Year"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Mountain Building and Continental Growth"<br/> "Radioactive Methods of Determining the Age of the Earth and Rocks"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">24-26 February 1960</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Robert Watson-Watt</span> | ||
| "Scientists and Statesmen"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Scientists and Statesmen"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Physics Is Not Enough"<br/> "Radar's Birthday"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">11-13 March 1963</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">H.L. Keenleyside</span> | ||
| "The World Around Us"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The World Around Us"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Race, Colour, and the Commonwealth"<br/> "Democracy and Canada"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">9-11 March 1964</span> | ||
| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify | | <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify">Sydney Fox</span> | ||
| "Theories of Biochemical Origins"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Theories of Biochemical Origins"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Experimental Geosynthesis and the Origin of Cells"<br/> "Modern Extensions of Evolutionary Theory"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">29-31 March 1965</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Philip Morrison</span> | ||
| "Like a Plain in Bohemia"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Like a Plain in Bohemia"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Plurality of Worlds"<br/> "A Discriminating Search"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">2-4 November 1966</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Har Gobind Khorana</span> | ||
| "Nucleic Acid Synthesis"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Nucleic Acid Synthesis"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Genetic Code I"<br/> "Genetic Code II"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">24-26 March 1969</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">John Wheeler</span> | ||
| "The End of Time"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The End of Time"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Strange Nature of Einstein's Space"<br/> "Our Universe: The Known and the Unknown"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">20-22 January 1970</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Edward Bullard</span> | ||
| "The Rocks Beneath the Ocean"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The Rocks Beneath the Ocean"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Earth's Magnetic Field"<br/> "The New Geology: Ridges, Plates and Trenches"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">2-4 November 1970</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Zdenek Kopal</span> | ||
| "Fundamental Properties of the Moon and its Internal Structure"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Fundamental Properties of the Moon and its Internal Structure"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Surface of the Moon and its Composition"<br/> "Age and Evolution of the Moon"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">20-22 March 1972</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Robert C. Gallo</span> | ||
| "Tumor viruses, theories of viral oncogenesis and relevance to man"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Tumor viruses, theories of viral oncogenesis and relevance to man"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Reverse transcriptase: the DNA polymerase of oncogenic RNA viruses"<br/> "The Leukemic Cell"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">18-20 March 1974</span> | ||
| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify | | <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify">Gerhard Herzberg</span> | ||
| "The Space Between the Stars"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The Space Between the Stars"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Spectra of Molecular Ions"<br/> "Experimental Tessets of the Quantium Theory of Molecular Hydrogen"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">29-31 March 1976</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Matthew S. Meselson</span> | ||
| "The Replication and Mutation of DNA - mutation and cancer"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The Replication and Mutation of DNA - mutation and cancer"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Recombination and Rearrangement of Genes"<br/> "The Eukaryotic Gene - Why is it so large?"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">17-19 October 1977</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">William S. Fyfe</span> | ||
| "Global Resources: The Evolution of the Earth's Crust"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Global Resources: The Evolution of the Earth's Crust"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Fluid motion, Chemical Transport and Ore Deposits"<br/> "Geosphere Interaction; Global Mixing"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">1978 - 1979</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">17-19 March 1980</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">William Nunn Lipscomb</span> | ||
| "How do Enzymes Work?"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "How do Enzymes Work?"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Regulatory Processes at the Molecular Level in Proteins and Enzymes"<br/> "Boranes and Carboranes"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">19-20 October 1981</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Rosalyn Yalow</span> | ||
| "Radioactivity in the Service of Man"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Radioactivity in the Service of Man"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Radiation: Are There Safe Levels?"<br/> "An Introduction to Radioimmunoassay"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">19-21 September 1983</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Arthur L. Schawlow</span> | ||
| "Lasers and their Uses"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Lasers and their Uses"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Spectroscopy in a New Light"<br/> "Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">15-16 October 1986</span> | ||
| Ursula Franklin | | Ursula Franklin | ||
| "Archaeometry, A New Interdisciplinary Field"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Archaeometry, A New Interdisciplinary Field"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Cooperative Research Among Scientists, Archaeologists and Historians: What Happens in Real Life" "Women's Contributions in Science and Technology"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">6-7 October 1988</span> | ||
| John Polanyi | | John Polanyi | ||
| "Groping Towards Discovery"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Groping Towards Discovery"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"New Directions in Reaction Dynamics"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">7-9 February 1990</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">F. Kenneth Hare</span> | ||
| "Nature Under Attack: Learning How To Survive"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Nature Under Attack: Learning How To Survive"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Preservation of Nature: The Role of the Changing Climate"<br/> "Energy Options: Public Safety and Environmental Changes"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">17-19 October 1990</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Ronald L. Graham</span> | ||
| "Computers and Mathematics: Coping with Finiteness"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Computers and Mathematics: Coping with Finiteness"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Shortest Network Problem" "Quasi-random Graphs"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">16-18 October 1991</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">John Maynard Smith</span> | ||
| "The Evolution of Sex"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "The Evolution of Sex"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Major Transitions in Evolutions"<br/> "The Evolution of Bacteria: Does Sex Matter?"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">8-9 October 1992</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Roger Penrose</span> | ||
| "Computability and the Mind"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Computability and the Mind"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Magic Dodecahedra and the Mystery of Quantum Entanglement"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">14-15 April 1994</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Rudolph Marcus</span> | ||
| "Life in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiment"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Life in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiment"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry and Biology"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">14-15 November 1994</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Eugene Shoemaker</span> | ||
| "Large-body Impacts Are a Cause for Mass Extinctions"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Large-body Impacts Are a Cause for Mass Extinctions"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Crash of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">30-31 October 1995</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">John H. Conway</span> | ||
| "Calendar Calisthenics"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Calendar Calisthenics"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The Symmetries of Things"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">17-18 October 1998</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Michael Smith</span> | ||
| "Chemistry and Genetics"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Chemistry and Genetics"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"The First Stages of DNA Sequencing in the Human Genome Project"</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">20-21 May 1999</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Harrison Hagan Schmitt</span> | ||
| "Back to the Moon and Beyond"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Back to the Moon and Beyond"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">Untitled technical lecture</span> | ||
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| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">13-15 September 2006</span> | ||
| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt | | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Harold Kroto</span> | ||
| "Science, Society and Sustainability"<br/><span style="line-height: 1.6 | | "Science, Society and Sustainability"<br/> <span style="line-height: 1.6">"Enlightenment Under Threat - Can it Be Saved by the Internet?"<br/> "Architecture in NanoSpace"</span> | ||
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| 18 September 2012 | |<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">18 September 2012</span> | ||
| Christopher J. Wild | |<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Christopher J. Wild</span> | ||
| "It's a Great Story, but is it True?" | |<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">"It's a Great Story, but is it True?"</span> | ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">3-4 October 2019</span> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> Arthur McDonald</span> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">"Understanding the Universe from Deep Underground"<br/> | |||
"From the Tiniest Particles to the Farthest Reaches of The Universe"</span> | |||
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<br/>'''Source(s):''' | <br/> '''Source(s):''' | ||
*UA Case 208. | *UA Case 208. | ||
*UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 January - 31 March 1969. | *UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 January - 31 March 1969. | ||
*UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 March - 30 April 1974. | *UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 March - 30 April 1974. | ||
{{Copyright}} | {{Copyright}} | ||
[[Category:Lecture Series|Lecture_Series]] | [[Category:Lecture Series|Lecture_Series]] | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 24 October 2019
The Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series, held at UNB Fredericton, were established in 1946 to commemorate Bryan Priestman, a professor of physics at UNB who died in 1945 while attempting to save a boy from drowning in the Saint John River.
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title of Lecture(s) |
| 21-22 January 1952 | Harlow Shapley |
"The Effect of Science on National Boundaries" |
| 4-6 March 1953 | James A. Corry | "Civil Liberties in Trying Times" "Fair Hopes for Democracy" "The Demands of Democracy |
| 31 March, 1-2 April 1954 | George Wald | "The Origin of Life" "Atoms and Organisms" "Biochemical Evolution" |
| 2-4 March 1955 | George Gamow | "Evolution of the Stars" "Origin of the Universe" "Biochemical Evolution" |
| 18-20 April 1956 | J.H. Quastel | "Influence of Biochemistry on Modern Life" "Chemical Activities of the Soil" "Action of Drugs on Enzyme Systems" |
| 21-23 October 1957 | Linus Pauling | "Molecules in Relation to Disease" "The Structure of Proteins" "Science in the Modern World" |
| 18-20 February 1959 | John Tuzo Wilson | "Results of the International Geophysical Year" "Mountain Building and Continental Growth" "Radioactive Methods of Determining the Age of the Earth and Rocks" |
| 24-26 February 1960 | Robert Watson-Watt | "Scientists and Statesmen" "Physics Is Not Enough" "Radar's Birthday" |
| 11-13 March 1963 | H.L. Keenleyside | "The World Around Us" "Race, Colour, and the Commonwealth" "Democracy and Canada" |
| 9-11 March 1964 | Sydney Fox | "Theories of Biochemical Origins" "Experimental Geosynthesis and the Origin of Cells" "Modern Extensions of Evolutionary Theory" |
| 29-31 March 1965 | Philip Morrison | "Like a Plain in Bohemia" "The Plurality of Worlds" "A Discriminating Search" |
| 2-4 November 1966 | Har Gobind Khorana | "Nucleic Acid Synthesis" "Genetic Code I" "Genetic Code II" |
| 24-26 March 1969 | John Wheeler | "The End of Time" "The Strange Nature of Einstein's Space" "Our Universe: The Known and the Unknown" |
| 20-22 January 1970 | Edward Bullard | "The Rocks Beneath the Ocean" "The Earth's Magnetic Field" "The New Geology: Ridges, Plates and Trenches" |
| 2-4 November 1970 | Zdenek Kopal | "Fundamental Properties of the Moon and its Internal Structure" "Surface of the Moon and its Composition" "Age and Evolution of the Moon" |
| 20-22 March 1972 | Robert C. Gallo | "Tumor viruses, theories of viral oncogenesis and relevance to man" "Reverse transcriptase: the DNA polymerase of oncogenic RNA viruses" "The Leukemic Cell" |
| 18-20 March 1974 | Gerhard Herzberg | "The Space Between the Stars" "Spectra of Molecular Ions" "Experimental Tessets of the Quantium Theory of Molecular Hydrogen" |
| 29-31 March 1976 | Matthew S. Meselson | "The Replication and Mutation of DNA - mutation and cancer" "Recombination and Rearrangement of Genes" "The Eukaryotic Gene - Why is it so large?" |
| 17-19 October 1977 | William S. Fyfe | "Global Resources: The Evolution of the Earth's Crust" "Fluid motion, Chemical Transport and Ore Deposits" "Geosphere Interaction; Global Mixing" |
| 1978 - 1979 | None | |
| 17-19 March 1980 | William Nunn Lipscomb | "How do Enzymes Work?" "Regulatory Processes at the Molecular Level in Proteins and Enzymes" "Boranes and Carboranes" |
| 19-20 October 1981 | Rosalyn Yalow | "Radioactivity in the Service of Man" "Radiation: Are There Safe Levels?" "An Introduction to Radioimmunoassay" |
| 19-21 September 1983 | Arthur L. Schawlow | "Lasers and their Uses" "Spectroscopy in a New Light" "Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy" |
| 15-16 October 1986 | Ursula Franklin | "Archaeometry, A New Interdisciplinary Field" "Cooperative Research Among Scientists, Archaeologists and Historians: What Happens in Real Life" "Women's Contributions in Science and Technology" |
| 6-7 October 1988 | John Polanyi | "Groping Towards Discovery" "New Directions in Reaction Dynamics" |
| 7-9 February 1990 | F. Kenneth Hare | "Nature Under Attack: Learning How To Survive" "The Preservation of Nature: The Role of the Changing Climate" "Energy Options: Public Safety and Environmental Changes" |
| 17-19 October 1990 | Ronald L. Graham | "Computers and Mathematics: Coping with Finiteness" "The Shortest Network Problem" "Quasi-random Graphs" |
| 16-18 October 1991 | John Maynard Smith | "The Evolution of Sex" "The Major Transitions in Evolutions" "The Evolution of Bacteria: Does Sex Matter?" |
| 8-9 October 1992 | Roger Penrose | "Computability and the Mind" "Magic Dodecahedra and the Mystery of Quantum Entanglement" |
| 14-15 April 1994 | Rudolph Marcus | "Life in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiment" "Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry and Biology" |
| 14-15 November 1994 | Eugene Shoemaker | "Large-body Impacts Are a Cause for Mass Extinctions" "The Crash of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter" |
| 30-31 October 1995 | John H. Conway | "Calendar Calisthenics" "The Symmetries of Things" |
| 17-18 October 1998 | Michael Smith | "Chemistry and Genetics" "The First Stages of DNA Sequencing in the Human Genome Project" |
| 20-21 May 1999 | Harrison Hagan Schmitt | "Back to the Moon and Beyond" Untitled technical lecture |
| 13-15 September 2006 | Harold Kroto | "Science, Society and Sustainability" "Enlightenment Under Threat - Can it Be Saved by the Internet?" "Architecture in NanoSpace" |
| 18 September 2012 | Christopher J. Wild | "It's a Great Story, but is it True?" |
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3-4 October 2019
Arthur McDonald
"Understanding the Universe from Deep Underground" |
Source(s):
- UA Case 208.
- UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 January - 31 March 1969.
- UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1 March - 30 April 1974.
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