Oral Presentation/Written Report

Guidelines

Oral presentations (5 min) will be given at the beginning of class.

The written report should consist of the following:

One page: Training

Mentors/contemporaries

Life Background

One page: What they did scientifically (in some detail)

The report should be typed. However, equations may be hand written.

Useful resources: http://www.nobel.se/

Gillispie, C.C., editor in chief. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Scribner.

Schedule of Presenters

updated April 6, 2004

Scientist Presenter Presentation Date

Diffusion/Transport

Robert Brown (Brownian motion) Jon So Mon, April 5

Albert Einstein, Smoluchowski (Diffusion, Brownian motion) Mithun Diwakar Wed, April 7

Jean Baptiste Perrin (Colloids, Avogadro’s number) Smaranda Marinescu Mon, April 12

Lord Raleigh (Light scattering) Richard Carson Mon, April 12

Fredrick Sanger, Walter Gilbert Joy Rimchala Wed, April 14

(Sequencing of peptides and nucleic acids)

Kinetics/Enzymes

Svante Arrhenius (Reaction rate theory) Chris McClendon Fri, April 16

Manfred Eigen, Ronald Norrish, George Porter Maria Ho Fri, April 16

(Rapid reaction kinetics)

Michaelis, Menten (Hypothesis for enzymatic reactions) Andrea Kung Mon, April 19

Sid Altman, Tom Cech (RNA enzymes) Jason Lee Mon, May 24

NMR

Richard Ernst Yan Qi Mon, April 19

Spectroscopy

Peter Debye (Dipole moments) Lucie Lee Mon, May 3

Chandrasekhara Raman (Raman effect) Kulsoom Hasan Wed, May 5

Y. K. Zavoysky (ESR-1944) Beth Dorman Mon, May 10

Crystallography

Sir William H. Bragg, Sir William L. Bragg Candace Seu Wed, May 12

Francis Crick (Helical transforms/Fiber diffraction) Sandy Ottensmann Fri, May 14

Dorothy Hodgkin (X-ray crystallography) Vi Tran Mon, May 17

Max Perutz, John Kendrew (Structure of proteins) Xiao Peng Wed, May 19

Max Von Laue (X-ray diffraction) Gwen Ong Wed, May 26

William Lipscomb (X-ray crystallography) David Powers Fri, May 28

Linus Pauling Evan Rushton Wed, June 2