Chemistry Professor John D'Angelo to present Oct. 6 Bergren forum on Nobel Prize
Alfred University Professor of Chemistry John D’Angelo will deliver the Oct. 6 Bergren Forum, “It’s Nobel Prize Week! The History and Inequity of Alfred Nobel’s Prize.” The lecture, in Nevins Theater, is open to the public and begins at 12:10 pm
Alfred University Professor of Chemistry John D’Angelo will deliver the Oct. 6 Bergren Forum, “It’s Nobel Prize Week! The History and Inequity of Alfred Nobel’s Prize.” The lecture, in Nevins Theater, is open to the public and begins at 12:10 pm
D’Angelo writes: “The Nobel Prize is one of, if not the best-known award in modern human society. Why did Alfred Nobel create the award? Why are the recipients so homogeneous? Why are they sometimes skipped? Are the awards ever controversial? Are Nobel Prize-winning works ever proven wrong after the fact? How many Nobel Prize winners were also criminals, war criminals, scientific fraudsters, or political prisoners? How did someone hide from the Nazis a pair of Nobel Prizes in plain sight?"
The Bergren Forum is sponsored by the Division of Human Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and will be held in-person from 12:10- 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays in Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus Center. Attendees are invited to bring a brown bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. For those not able to make it to Nevins, there is a Zoom link, which will be the same each week. Please contact Marilyn Saxton for the Zoom information.