Symons to Deliver 1997 Whelen Lecture

Posted March 17, 1997


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
97-03-09-OTHER

SYMONS TO DELIVER 1997 WHELEN LECTURE


Saskatoon SK, March 17, 1997 -- Dr. Martyn C.R. Symons
was selected as this year's Whelen Visiting Lecturer. The
Whelen Lecture will be delivered on Tuesday, March 25 at
7:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall (Admin Building, U of S
campus). This, the sixth Whelen Lecture, is titled Water --
Its Structure and How it Solvates: Unique but not
Anomalous.

Dr. Symons has spent most of his professional life as an
inorganic physical chemist at the University of Leicester,
where he became an internationally recognized authority
in spectroscopy, and in radiation and solvation processes.
He has published more than one thousand papers, three
books, and numerous review articles. In addition to his
achievements in the physical sciences, Symons is an
accomplished water-colourist.

Two further lectures have been organized to take
advantage of his additional knowledge. Flint -- A Vital
Stone Age Tool: Radiation Damage as a Measure of Age
will be delivered on Wednesday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 159 Thorvaldson, and Why I Paint with Watercolours
will be given on Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Kenderdine Gallery, where paintings by him, his uncle, and
his grandfather will be on exhibition.

The Whelen Visiting Lectureship was established in 1987,
through a bequest from a distinguished alumnus, Dr. Myron
Whelen. This bequest made it possible to bring the
following internationally recognized speakers to the U of S
campus:
1987 - Lorin Hollander, concert pianist and White
House education consultant
1989 - Dr. Jonathan Miller, creative director of
theatre, opera, and television
1991 - Dr. Germaine Greer, Shakespearean
scholar and feminist
1992 - Dr. Rosalyn Yallo, medical physicist and
1977 Nobel Prize winner
1994 - Dr. Stephen Schneider, climate and global
warming specialist

For more information and interview appointments, please
contact:

Deb Shutiak
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-6203