Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series

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" "The Cosmos" "Advanced Problems in Astronomy"
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.

Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture Series

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