Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series
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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.
| 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?" |
| 3-4 October 2019 | Arthur McDonald | "Understanding the Universe from Deep Underground" "From the Tiniest Particles to the Farthest Reaches of The Universe" |
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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