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NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES The following prizes have been awarded for 1995: Chemistry: Paul Crutzen (Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany), Mario Molina (MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts) and F...
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE An honorary MBA has been awarded to the college's chairman of governors, Owen Harris. UMEA UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN The faculty of social sciences has conferred an honorary...
THE MEASURERS "The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the 16th Century" is part of an exhibition of mathematics from the 16th century at the Museum of the History of Science, The exhibition...
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Vernon Farewell, professor of statistics and actuarial science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has been appointed to the chair of medical statistics. The following...
(Photograph) - "The Measurers", a painting attributed to Hendrik van Balen c1600, showing instruments involved in measuring and mathematics
(Photograph) - Urbane future: Martin Gaskell, the urban historian and director of Nene College who became the new chair of the Standing Conference of Principals this week, aims to develop further...
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY The 1995 Dexter Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the Dexter Chemical Corporation has been presented to William Hodson...
Association of Scottish Colleges The following have been appointed board directors: Ray Baker, chairman, Fife College board of management; Michael Webster, principal, Perth College; James Thomson,...
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis about earth's evolution must be reassessed by scientists, argues Nick Petford. Gaia James Lovelock's provocative theory of the earth is back on the agenda with the...
Sunday. To church with family (Enid, four, and James, two) as usual. Support for coming week gleaned from hymn "Forth in thy name O Lord I go, my daily labours to pursue". Today's daily labours...
Eric Forth, the new higher education minister, has called into question assumptions by university heads and captains of industry that renewed growth in higher education is needed. A Government...