“Harnessing Science: Was it easier in Darwins time?

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Speaker: Lord Alec Broers
Biography: Member of House of Lords
Date: 18/11/08
Time: 19:30
Venue: Main Theatre, Lichfield Garrick
Description: The 19th Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture given by Lord Alec Broers, Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus at Cambridge University, Fellow of Churchill College and Mermber of the House of Lords.

 

Is the public better prepared to assess the true value of technological advances than it was in Darwin`s day?
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Greenwich Time – Clocks that changed the world

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Speaker: David Rooney
Biography: Curator of Timekeeping, Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Date: 01/10/08
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfeldGarrick
Description: A Gallop across 300 years of Geenwich Time.

 

David Rooney is a historian of technology. Originally trained as a physicist, and the son of a clockmaker, he studied history while working at the Science Museum, London, where he was a co-curator of the major millennium gallery, Making the Modern World (2000). He ...

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Current Trends in Converted Weapons

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Speaker: Abigail Hannam, BSc(Hons),MSc, RFP
Biography: Forensic Scientist, Firearms
Date: 11/09/08
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfeldGarrick
Description: The Forensic Investigation of Gun Crime.

 

Abigail Hannam has a BSc from St Andrew’s in Experimental Pathology and an MSc from Kings College in Forensic Science. She is employed by the Forensic Science Service as a forensic scientist specializing in the examination of firearms, ammunition and related items, and in the interpretation of ...

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Narrative Thinking in Medical Practice

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Speaker: Brian Hurwitz, BA, MSc, MD, FRCP, FRCGP. This lecture is arranged for the Lichfield Festival Programme, Tickets purchased from the Garrick Box Office.
Biography: D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medcine and the Arts KIngs College, London
Date: 09/07/08
Time: 10:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: Literary imagination in the practice of medcine.
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2007 - 2008 Programme

Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and life

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Speaker: Professor Richard A L Jones, FRS
Biography: EPSRC Professor Fellow and Senior Strategic Advisor for Nanotechnology Department of Physics and Astrononmy, University of Sheffield
Date: 13/05/08
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: The next great breakthrough? What we can really expect in the next 15-20 years?

 

THE MAY MEETING WILL BE PRECEDED AT 1930 BY THE SOCIETY’S AGM
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Functional Polymetric Materials: Realities and Possibilities

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Speaker: Professor Jim Feast, CBE, FRS
Biography: President of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Volunteer Research Professor, Durham University and The Technical University of Eindhoven also former student of King Edward VI School
Date: 14/02/08
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick
Description: From plastic electronics and car components to replacement human joints and bladdrer catheters.
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