Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series

The Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series 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 January 1952 22 January 22 January	Harlow Shapley	"The Effect of Science on National Boundaries" "The Cosmos" "Advanced Problems in Astronomy"
4 March 1953 5 March 6 March	James A. Corry	"Civil Liberties in Trying Times" "Fair Hopes for Democracy" "The Demands of Democracy
31 March 1954 1 April 2 April	George Wald	"The Origin of Life" "Atoms and Organisms" "Biochemical Evolution"
2 March 1955 3 March 4 March	George Gamow	"Evolution of the Stars" "Origin of the Universe" "Biochemical Evolution"
18 April 1956 19 April 20 April	J.H. Quastel	"Influence of Biochemistry on Modern Life" "Chemical Activities of the Soil" "Action of Drugs on Enzyme Systems"
21 October 1957 22 October 23 October	Linus Pauling	"Molecules in Relation to Disease" "The Structure of Proteins" "Science in the Modern World"
18 February 1959 19 February 20 February	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 February 1960 25 February 26 February	Robert Watson-Watt	"Scientists and Statesmen" "Physics Is Not Enough" "Radar's Birthday"
11 March 1963 12 March 13 March	H.L. Keenleyside	"The World Around Us" "Race, Colour, and the Commonwealth" "Democracy and Canada"
9 March 1964 10 March 11 March	Sydney Fox	"Theories of Biochemical Origins" "Experimental Geosynthesis and the Origin of Cells" "Modern Extensions of Evolutionary Theory"
29 March 1965 30 March 31 March	Philip Morrison	"Like a Plain in Bohemia" "The Plurality of Worlds" "A Discriminating Search"
2 November 1966 3 November 4 November	Har Gobind Khorana	"Nucleic Acid Synthesis" "Genetic Code I" "Genetic Code II"
24 March 1969 25 March 26 March	John Wheeler	"The End of Time" "The Strange Nature of Einstein's Space" "Our Universe: The Known and the Unknown"
20 January 1970 21 January 22 January	Edward Bullard	"The Rocks Beneath the Ocean" "The Earth's Magnetic Field" "The New Geology: Ridges, Plates and Trenches"
2 November 1970 3 November 4 November	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 March 1972 21 March 22 March	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 March 1974 19 March 20 March	Gerhard Herzberg	"The Space Between the Stars" "Spectra of Molecular Ions" "Experimental Tessets of the Quantium Theory of Molecular Hydrogen"
29 March 1976 30 March 31 March	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 October 1977 18 October 19 October	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 March 1980 18 March 19 March	William Nunn Lipscomb	"How do Enzymes Work?" "Regulatory Processes at the Molecular Level in Proteins and Enzymes" "Boranes and Carboranes"
19 October 1981 20 October 20 October	Rosalyn Yalow	"Radioactivity in the Service of Man" "Radiation: Are There Safe Levels?" "An Introduction to Radioimmunoassay"
19 September 1983 20 September 21 September	Arthur L. Schawlow	"Lasers and their Uses" "Spectroscopy in a New Light" "Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy"
15 October 1986 16 October 16 October	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 October 1988 7 October	John Polanyi	"Groping Towards Discovery" "New Directions in Reaction Dynamics"
7 February 1990 8 February 9 February	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 October 1990 18 October 19 October	Ronald L. Graham	"Computers and Mathematics: Coping with Finiteness" "The Shortest Network Problem" "Quasi-random Graphs"
16 October 1991 17 October 18 October	John Maynard Smith	"The Evolution of Sex" "The Major Transitions in Evolutions" "The Evolution of Bacteria: Does Sex Matter?"
8 October 1992 9 October	Roger Penrose	"Computability and the Mind" "Magic Dodecahedra and the Mystery of Quantum Entanglement"
14 April 1994 15 April	Rudolph Marcus	"Life in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiment" "Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry and Biology"
14 November 1994 15 November	Eugene Shoemaker	"Large-body Impacts Are a Cause for Mass Extinctions" "The Crash of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter"
30 October 1995 31 October	John H. Conway	"Calendar Calisthenics" "The Symmetries of Things"
17 October 1997 18 October	Michael Smith	"Chemistry and Genetics" "The First Stages of DNA Sequencing in the Human Genome Project"
20 May 1999 21 May	Harrison Hagan Schmitt	"Back to the Moon and Beyond" Untitled technical lecture
13 September 2006 14 September 15 September	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?"

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.

Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series

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