The Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1957

1958 ◽  
Vol 244 (1239) ◽  
pp. 437-455 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Times ◽  
Nuclear Atom ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

It is just fifty years since Rutherford took up his appointment as Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester and there established the school of research which was to be so fruitful in great discoveries. It is less than iffy years since he first put forward the nuclear scheme of the structure of the atom. The spirit, the scale, the structure and, above all, the organization and [administration of research in physics has changed so much in these fifty years that the discoveries in question may truly be said to belong to another age, an age so remote as to seem closer to the times of Goethe and of Beethoven than to those of T. S. Eliot and of William Walton. It appeared to me possible that the aspiring young, among whom are numbered the Rutherfords of the future, might be interested to consider certain notable doings of that distant age, while they can still dear of them from one who was himself young at the time in question. I have therefore taken as my theme, for the Rutherford Memorial Lecture, the birth of the nuclear atom, which dominates so much of the physics of today. And, as, in dealing with any notable birth, it is usual and proper to say something about ancestry, I shall begin with those early speculations on the structure of the atom which led up to the conception of Rutherford's model.

The Casson Memorial Lecture 1993: Traditions and Transitions — Issues for the Future

1993 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Correia
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

This lecture was given on 25 June 1993 at the College of Occupational Therapists' 18th Annual Conference, held at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

The futures of the University of Tehran using causal layered analysis

foresight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadali Baradaran Ghahfarokhi ◽  
Ali Mohaghar ◽  
Fatemeh Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Current System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Causal Layered Analysis ◽  
The Times ◽  
The University

PurposeHigher education and universities have faced unprecedented and ubiquitous changes. The University of Tehran or “UT,” as the leading university in Iran, is not immune to these changes. The purposes of this study is to investigate the current situation and future of the UT and gain insights and possible responses to changes that suit its strengths and potential to progress in an increasingly competitive, complex environment with uncertainties. It identifies deep fundamental underpinnings of the issue and highlights them for policymakers to formulate strategies and future vision of the UT.Design/methodology/approachCausal layered analysis (CLA) was applied as a framework and the data collected from different sources such as literature reviews, content analysis of rules, regulations and master plans of the university and coded interviews of four different groups of university stakeholders were analyzed. The current system of UT, as well as hidden beliefs, that maintains traditional perceptions about university was mapped. Next, by applying a new recursive process and reverse CLA order, new CLA layers extracted through an expert panel, the layers of CLA based on new metaphors to envision future of UT were backcasted.FindingsThe results from CLA layers including litany, system, worldview and metaphor about the current statue of UT show disinterest and inertia against changes, conservative, behind the times and traditional perceptions, and indicate that the UT system is mismatched to the needs of society and stakeholders in the future. The authors articulated alternative perspectives deconstructed from other worldviews so there are new narratives that reframe the issues at hand. The results show that to survive in this fast-paced revolution and competition in higher education, UT should develop scenarios and formulate new strategies.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors had limited access to a wide range of stakeholders. As the UT is a very big university with so many faculties and departments, to access a pool of experts and top policymakers who were so busy and did not have time to interview inside and outside of university was very hard for the research team. The authors also had limitation to access the internal enactments and decisions of the trustee board of the UT and the financial balance sheets of the university.Originality/valueIn this paper, by mixing different methods of futures studies, the authors have shown how to move forward while understanding the perspectives of stakeholders about the future of UT by a new recursive process and reverse CLA order. A supplementary phase was added to improve CLA and to validate the method and results, which were ignored in previous studies.

The Crocodile and the Elephant

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
A. R. Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Peter Kapitza ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In 1907 Ernest Rutherford (later named ‘The Crocodile’ by Peter Kapitza), 36 years old and already a world–famous physicist, moved from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, to the University of Manchester, England. In the same year Niels Bohr (later known by some as ‘The Elephant’––he was one of the very few non–royal recipients of the Order of the Elephant), a 22–year–old student at the University of Copenhagen, received the gold medal of the Royal Danish Academy for his first research project, an experimental and theoretical study of water jets. During the next 30 years, until Rutherford's death in 1937, these two great scientists dominated quantum physics. Rutherford was the father of nuclear physics; together they founded atomic physics; and, with their students and colleagues, they were responsible for the great majority of the decisive advances made in the inter–war years. This lecture tells the story of the development in quantum physics, and makes some comparisons between Bohr and Rutherford–as men and scientists–drawing especially on their extensive correspondence between 1912 and 1937, the material that Bohr gathered in connection with the publication in 1961 of his Rutherford Memorial Lecture, the interviews that he gave just before his death in 1962, and other published and unpublished material from the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.

Just design: Healthy prisons and the architecture of hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Jewkes
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Lecture

This article develops the notion that institutional places and spaces are layered with meaning and that their architecture and design have a profound psychological and physiological influence on those who live and work within them. Mindful of the intrinsic link between ‘beauty’ and ‘being just’, the article explores the potential ‘healing’ or rehabilitative role of penal aesthetics. As many countries modernise their prison estates, replacing older facilities that are no longer fit-for-purpose with new, more ‘efficient’ establishments, this article discusses examples of international best (and less good) practice in penal and hospital settings. It reflects on what those who commission and design new prisons might learn from pioneering design initiatives in healthcare environments and asks whether the philosophies underpinning the ‘architecture of hope’ that Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres exemplify could be incorporated into prisons of the future. The article was originally presented as a public lecture in the annual John V Barry memorial lecture series at the University of Melbourne on 24 November 2016.

Academic surgery: an Interview with Gus McGrouther

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (9) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
Nick Kalson
Keyword(s):  
Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Academic Medicine ◽  
Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Academic Surgery ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Professor Gus McGrouther works two days a week at the Wythenshawe Hospital and three days running a research group at the University of Manchester, where he is the UK's first professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Nick Kalson talked to him about the future of surgery and academic medicine.

2015 Henry Mayer Lecture: critical media studies and the re-invention of the media

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

This is the expanded text of the Henry Mayer Memorial Lecture presented by Graeme Turner at the University of Queensland in November 2015. In it, he outlines his argument from his book, Re-inventing the Media, before going on to draw upon that argument to present a series of issues that need to be addressed by critical media studies in the future: the challenge of a bifurcating field, the thoroughgoing commercialisation of the media, and media studies’ drift away from the interrogation of the operation of power in the relations between the media, their audiences and the state.

The Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1965

1967 ◽  
Vol 298 (1453) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
The West ◽  
Atomic Nuclei ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Nuclear Atom ◽  
The University

Lord Rutherford died at Cambridge in 1937 and the first Rutherford Memorial Lecture was delivered by Sir John Cockcroft fifteen years later at Canterbury College, part of the University of New Zealand, where Rutherford first matriculated in 1889. Since the date of that lecture nine further Memorial Lectures have been delivered in the main countries of the British Commonwealth. Two of these lectures were given in Canada, at the University of McGill, where as Professor of Physics from 1898 to 1907 Rutherford performed that remarkable series of experiments which laid the foundations of the science of radioactivity. It seemed to me appropriate, on this occasion of the third Memorial Lecture in Canada, to choose a laboratory further to the west, and the growth of the Physics depart­ment here at Saskatoon, with its present major enterprise for research upon atomic nuclei, made this choice both natural and personally attractive. In previous lectures of this series the achievements and character of that remarkable man whom we meet to honour today have been very fully described. Sir James Chadwick, in his lecture at McGill in 1953, gave a documentary account of Rutherford’s scientific career. Chadwick had worked with Rutherford at Manchester from 1910 until 1913, the critical period during which the nuclear atom was formulated, and then returned to Manchester in 1918 shortly after Rutherford’s first successful experiments upon the disintegration of nitrogen. With Rutherford he then extended these experiments to other elements and moving to Cambridge in 1919, when Rutherford accepted the Cavendish Chair, continued to work in collaboration with him during nearly the whole of the rest of Rutherford’s life. His description of that association must clearly be regarded as the definitive document upon Rutherford’s scientific work and attitude.

STOL—Some Possibilities and Limitations

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (669) ◽  
pp. 825-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Mair
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Subsonic Speed ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
Chief Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

The Ninth Lanchester Memorial Lecture was given by Professor W. A. Mair, MA, FRAeS, on “STOL—Some Possibilities and Limitations” in the Society's Lecture Theatre on 12th May 1966. The Chair was taken by the President, Mr. A. D. Baxter, MEng, CEng, FRAeS. Before the lecture he presented the Society's Gold Medal for 1965 to Professor M. J. Lighthill, DSc, FRS, FRAeS, for “his outstanding original work in many fields of Aeronautics”, explaining that Professor Lighthill had been unable to be present at the Wilbur and Orville Wright Memorial Lecture in December 1965 when the Society's main awards for the year were presented.The President then said that this was the first meeting of the Society since his installation as President and it was a very pleasant way to start his year in office with first, the presentation of the Gold Medal to one distinguished scientist and second, the introduction of another as the Lanchester Memorial Lecturer.There would be many members of the Society who would remember Dr. Lanchester, his attendance at lectures and his contributions to the discussions. It was true, however, that the real stature of such men was rarely recognised at close quarters and often only in the light of later developments was the importance of their work realised. It was 20 years since Dr. Lanchester's death and their Memorial Lecture was in its ninth year. Each year, each President had added a tribute to this great man. He was a man of many parts—a scientist, musician, poet and engineer and aeronautics owed much to him. It was fitting that the Lecture had established a tradition of surveying some field of research associated with aerodynamics, in which Lanchester was so eminent. He thought that Lanchester would approve of both the subjects discussed and the distinguished men who had honoured his memory by presenting them. Before introducing Professor Mair he wished to welcome Mrs. Lanchester and Mr. George Lanchester and his wife, and Mrs. Mair.Professor Mair must be well known to most of them. After graduating in Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge in 1939 he had joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he scent some six years in the Aerodynamics Department doing research on high subsonic speed, both in the wind tunnels and in full-scale flight. In 1946 he had gone to the University of Manchester as Director of the Fluid Motion Laboratory and since 1952 he had held the Francis Mond Chair of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge. His chief interest there had been mainly in low speed aerodynamics and his authority in that field was widely recognised. In 1963 he had been appointed Chairman of the Powered Lift Committee of the Aeronautical Research Council.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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